

You can find the full review and more about this book on my blog! Visit her at .Īppearances CassandraClare.“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” Her books have more than 36 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Other books in the Shadowhunters series include The Dark Artifices series, The Eldest Curses series, The Last Hours series, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, and The Shadowhunter’s Codex.

This series, The Infernal Devices, follows bookworm Tessa Gray as she discovers the London Institute in Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess. The Mortal Instruments concluded in 2014, and includes City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire. She also created a prequel series, inspired by A Tale of Two Cities and set in Victorian London. In 2007, the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, City of Bones, introduced the world to Shadowhunters. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favorite city. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on the eponymous Jane Austen short story (and from which she later took her current pen name).Īfter college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids. Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old. Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family.
