The City of Bones

I am currently reading a book called The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The book is basically about 15 year old Clary Fray being sucked into a life that her mother-Jocelyn Fray-has so desperately wanted to hide from her. It all starts when she meets Jace Wayland, Isabelle and Alec Lightwood, and Hodge, the shadowhunters of the world. The Shadowhunters are, as Hodge describes, “We are sometimes called Nephilim. In the Bible they were the offspring of humans and angels. The legend of the origin of Shadowhunters is that they were created more than a thousand years ago, when humans were being overrun by demon invasions from other worlds. A warlock summoned the Angel Raziel, who mixed some of his own blood with the blood of men in a cup, and gave it to those men to drink. Those who drank the Angel’s blood became shadowhunters, as did their children and their children’s children.”  Jocelyn tried very hard to keep all this away from her daughter, because when she was a shadowhunter, well it wasn’t really pleasant thing for her, as Magus-not mentioning who he is, I don’t want to spoil too much ;3-said: “Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn’t the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.”

But, now Clary has found herself in the middle of this. Her mother can longer protect her from the twisted world, and with no one else being able to do the job, Clary gets sucked in. She gets attacked by monsters that also had trouble with her mother, vampires, and finds out that the only reason she could never remember all this-she had the sight to be able to see the other world-was that it was blocked. Anything that she remembered of the other world would be repressed-looks like her mother really wanted Clary to stay away from this side of the world, but the question is why? What’s so bad about battling some demons (Don’t say death. That doesn’t count now) seeing some “deadly” fairies, vampires, werewolves, and all that? Personally, I think it’s cool, so why would Jocelyn go through so much for Clary? Magus said it wasn’t the demons who Jocelyn wanted to run from-it was the Shadowhunters, what was so bad about the shadowhunters? What did they do to Jocelyn that she wanted to hide, doing anything to hide? Only Clary’s mind holds that answer-but is Clary ready to see the answer? Is she ready to face the actual burden of the truth her mother so desperately tried to hide? Is she ready to face the Shadow World?