While at a club with her friends, Clary Fray witnesses what she thinks is a murder. Clary follows 3 teenagers chasing another teenager into a room. There she sees the three kill the other teenager. The three explain to Clary it's kinda hard to have a murder without a body. The dead teenager disappears. When her friend Simon and club security show up the three teenagers disappear leaving Clary confused about what she actually witnessed.
The next night after having a fight with her mother she takes off to a local coffee shop with Simon. Suddenly she sees one of the teenagers from the night before. She rushes outside and finds him in the alley. He tells her that he and his friends Alec and Isabell are "Shadowhunters". He explains that she should not even be able to see them. As Clary is trying to wrap her mind around what Alec is telling her she receives a frantic phone call from her mother. She tells Clary not to come home and to go to Simon's house. She races back to her apartment to find her mother missing and she also finds herself not alone.
"It was crouched against the floor, a long, scaled creature with a cluster of flat black eyes set dead center in the front of its domed skull. Something like a cross between an alligator and a centipede, it had a thick, flat snout and a barbed tail that whipped menacingly from side to side. Multiple legs bunched underneath it as it readied itself to spring."
Clary soon discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets from her. She even went so far as to have someone block certain memories from her. No one seems to be able to help her retrieve those memories. She soon learns that her mother has been taken captive by the evil Valentine, The only way to save her mother is to find something called "The Mortal Cup". Along the way she will have to fight demons, vampires and werewolves. She will also learn who she can truly trust and who she can't.
The story starts off a little slow but does pick up as the story progresses. It ends with a really good twist that makes the reader eager for more.
Rating 3.5/5
ISBN# 978-1-4169-5507-8
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