That woman was Jocelyn, Clary’s mother, which means that Valentine is Clary’s father. Valentine started off as a man that everybody liked, but when a woman broke his heart, he was almost incapable of love. Clary learns a lot about the strange world that she never thought she would be part of.Ī big battle is going on between the Downworlds and Shadowhunters and Valentine, an evil man wanting to turn every human into a Shadowhunter. There are Downworlders, in which werewolves, vampires and demons form part of, Shadowhunters, who hunt demons and then there are Fairies who mind their own business and don’t like to get involved with other groups. Clary soon learns that there are three main groups in the world that Jace, Alec and Isabelle are part of. “To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed,” Jace’s father always told him, so it can be interpreted that Jace’s father is against loving too strongly (Clare 236). Alec and Isabelle are siblings, but Jace's dad died when he was young and he never met his mother, so Alec and Isabelle's parents, the Lightwoods, 'adopted' Jace.

A few days later Clary sees them again, and this time one of the three, a blonde boy, introduced himself as Jace, and the other two are Alec and Isabelle.

Clary is the only who seems to see the killers. In that party Clary sees three teenagers her age murdering another person, but when Clary screams, everybody looks at her like she's crazy. Clary often finds herself drawing a strange symbol that just always comes to her head, and one day she and Simon go to a party. Clary's best friend is Simon, and they do almost everything together. The main character, Clarissa (Clary) lives in New York with her mother, Jocelyn and her mother's friend, Luke. The book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare was a type of fantasy book that an imaginative reader would enjoy a lot.