One night at a club, 15 year old Clarissa (Clary) Fray witnesses a murder by a mysterious boy named Jace Wayland whom nobody can see but her. The next day, after seeing Jace again, she comes to find her apartment ransacked and her mother disappeared. At that moment, she finds a demon in her house and defeats it but is heavily injured. Before she passes out, Jace finds her and carries her away. Clary wakes up in a place called the Institute with a friend of Jace's looking at her. Her name was Isabelle Lightwood. During the next few days, Clary finds out that vampires, werewolves, faeries, mermaids, and demons are all true. She also finds out that she, along with Jace, Isabelle, and Isabelle's brother Alec, and her mother, are one of the many people called Shadowhunters. Clary is swept along in a journey to save the world that is both exciting and thrilling.
Harold Zwart has, in my opinion, excelled himself by making a movie about the City of Bones. The actors are Jamie Campbell Bower has Jace Wayland, Lily Collins as Clary Fray, Robert Sheehan as Simon Lewis, Kevin Zegers as Alec, Jemima West as Isabelle, Godfrey Gao as Magnus, Lena Headey as Jocelyn, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Valentine. The City of Bones movie is a must see movie for all of the Mortal Instruments fans.
Here are quotes that I found about the Mortal Instruments series. I am going to type quite a few of them out cause I think they are awesome and I'll try to put quotes that incorporates all of the characters.
"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
-Cassandra Clare, The City of Bones
"And now I'm looking at you" he said, "and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger then anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before - bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it - but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me."
-Cassandra Clare, The City of Glass
"Don't order faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute, you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me."
-Cassandra Clare, The City of Bones
"It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl."
-Cassandra Clare
"Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me for around and around inside a dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me."
"Probably because going around and around in a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, " whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it."
-Cassandra Clare, The City of Bones
"I think she just asked is she could touch my mango."
-Cassandra clare, City of Fallen Angels
"Fine," Kyle said. "I'm a werewolf. I'm not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?"
"I've heard of lupus," said Simon. "Isn't it a kind of disease?"
-Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
"Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace"
-Cassandra Clare
"Yech," said Simon.
"Don't yech me. You're the one with the magical spit."
-Cassandra Clare
" If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you."
"Who's Magnus?" Max inquired.
"He's a warlock," said Alec.
"A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury.
"But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled.
"Exactly," said Isabelle.
-Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
"Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot."
"Forever?" said Simon. "Forever's an awfully long time."
Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "you want to kiss me, don't you?"
-Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
There are more awesome and hilarious quotes but it is too much work to write them. So here's the website for the quotes. And btw, have you noticed that almost everything that comes out of Jace's moth is either hilarious or beautiful?
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/mortal-instruments
This was the best book ever, and they did a pretty decent job with the movie. But personally the books are getting a little boring now.
ReplyDeleteI've read the first two books twice, and I have the third book. I didn't like the movie as much as the book, but it was good.
ReplyDeletethe movie and book were both amazing! (but the book was better duh)
ReplyDeleteThe movie was amazing and i can't wait to read the books. Jase is soo hot!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the book or seen the movie... I really should though:)
ReplyDeleteAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ROBERT SHEEHAN AND JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER
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