City of BonesDiscover the world of the Shadowhunters in the first installment of the New York Times and internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly). City of Bones is a Shadowhunters novel. When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder—much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. And she’s more than a little startled when the body disappears into thin air. Soon Clary is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world and back to their own. And Clary is introduced with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster. How could a mere human survive such an attack and kill a demon? The Shadowhunters would like to know… |
Contents
Section 14 | 252 |
Section 15 | 281 |
Section 16 | 295 |
Section 17 | 308 |
Section 18 | 323 |
Section 19 | 349 |
Section 20 | 372 |
Section 21 | 389 |
Section 9 | 131 |
Section 10 | 149 |
Section 11 | 189 |
Section 12 | 215 |
Section 13 | 227 |
Section 22 | 403 |
Section 23 | 435 |
Section 24 | 468 |
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Page 23 - ... flights of oratory is it given to catch a glimpse of the last flutter of the standards of the retreating host, to hear the beat of their invisible wings, the sound of their mocking laughter, or the swell of angel music dying away in the distance. Far otherwise is it with the savage. To his imagination the world still teems with those motley beings whom a more sober philosophy has discarded. Fairies and goblins, ghosts and demons, still hover about him both waking and sleeping. They dog his footsteps,...
Page 12 - You'd better get out of here if you know what's good for you," a deep menacing voice rumbled from somewhere inside a nearby gas mask.