hooked on books: Cassandra Clare

We all know that Cassandra Clare has another Shadowhunter series coming out and then two more trilogies after that (seriously woman, where are you going to stop?!), and no matter how many of us think that she has dragged this Shadowhunter world on for too long (ahem), none of us can deny that we're looking forward - even the tiniest bit - for The Dark Artifices to come out.

Luckily for us, Clare has posted some snippets of the book for us to fangirl/boy over!

#1
Emma swallowed. She was remembering Julian, two years ago, standing in the overlapping circles of fire where the parabatai ritual was performed. The look on his face as they each stepped into the central circle and the fire rose up around them, and he unbuttoned his shirt to let her touch the stele to his skin and carve the rune that would bind them together for their whole lives. She knew if she just reached out now, she could touch it, touch the rune cut into his shoulder, the rune she had put there …

#2
Mark whirled on them. His eyes were blind, unseeing. “You bring the twins in front of me and you kill them over and over. My Ty, he doesn’t understand why I can’t save him. You bring me Dru and when she laughs to see the fairytale castle, all ringed round with hedges, you throw her against the thorns until their pierce her small body. And you bid me wash in Octavian’s blood for the blood of an innocent child is magic under the Hill.”

#3

Now he looked at her sideways. “You don’t think I look like a Shadowhunter any more?”

“Do you want to?” Cristina asked.

“I want to look like my family,” Mark said. “I cannot have the Blackthorn coloring, but I can look as much like Nephilim as possible. Besides, if I wish to be part of the investigation, I cannot stand out.”

Cristina held back from telling Mark that there was no world in which he didn’t stand out. “I can make you look like a Shadowhunter.”

2015 HURRY UP ALREADY.

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-C E L I N E

"If I cannot reach heaven, I will raise hell."

Title: City of Heavenly Fire
Author: Cassandra Clare
Format: Paperback
Release Date: May 27 2014
Genres: Young adult, fantasy
Stars out of 10 ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Rate out of 5: ☆☆☆☆☆

Darkness returns to the Shadowhunter world. As their society falls apart around them, Clary, Jace, Simon and their friends must band together to fight the greatest evil the Nephilim have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Nothing in the world can defeat him — must they journey to another world to find the chance? Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world changed in the sixth and last installment of the Mortal Instruments series!

Ellie: Sebastian Morgenstern is gaining power against the Shadowhunters, and Clary and her friends do everything in their power to stop the oblivion of the world as they know it. Cassandra Clare expertly incorporates characters from other books she has written based on the Shadowhunter world, such as Tessa and Jem and also introduced the younger generation of Shadowhunters, Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn, which in some ways advertises her next series 'The Dark Artifices'. I liked the idea of bringing old and new characters into this series, it in some ways signifies that the whole Shadowhunter world is not yet over.

Celine: Sebastian Morgenstern has created a strong army of the Endarkened, nephilim that are stronger, faster and more agile than normal shadowhunters. With his army of the Endarkened, he plans on defeating and wiping out the entire race of Shadowhunters. He has started to attack institutes all around the globe to either kill Shadowhunters or to Turn them into an Endarkened. Before he can get to the New York institute, which the Lightwoods are currently running and inhabiting mostly, they escape to Idris, the home of the nephilim as many other institutes have done. Will the Shadowhunters be defeated and wiped off the face of the earth or do they have a chance against Valentine's son?

THE PORTION OF THEIR CUP

"Picture something calming. The beach in Los Angeles - white sand, crashing blue water, you're strolling along the tide line..."

Jace cracked an eye open. "That sounds very romantic."

Ellie: I went to the 'official book release' in London for this book and many people were screaming in desperation as the host was holding it.This book was so exciting, and a wonderful way to finish the last instalment of this series. A roller coaster of emotions, and couldn't help but cry in certain parts (if you've read the book you'll understand). Congrats, Cassie another amazing book. *clapping, sending air kisses*.

Celine: WOWOWOW. The sixth and final book of The Mortal Instruments series lived up to its expectations and it was completely worth the wait. A lot, and I mean A LOT of things happen, including MALEC! (Sorry for the spoiler but Cassandra had already said so.) There weren't too much of Jace and Clary, but enough. This book was split everywhere, it didn't JUST focus on Shadowhunters; it overlooked the vampires, faeries and werewolves as well. This book was just AMAZING.