Cassandra Clare "The City of Bones"

Before starting work on the "Cannon of Death" cycle, Cassandra Clare gained some fame in the circles of Harry Potter saga fans, writing "The Trilogy of Draco" - a series of fanfiction based on the books of Joan Rowling, in which the protagonist was Draco Malfoy.

Having gathered up this way of writing experience,In 2004, Cassandra Clare began work on her debut novel, The City of Bones. The novel was published in March 2007 in the United States. In April, the book "The City of Bones" took the eighth line in the New York Times bestseller list. On July 2, 2007 the British edition was published. Later the book was translated into several languages, including German, Italian, French, Spanish and Russian.

The idea of ​​the novel came to Cassandra, when theya friend attended a tattoo parlor. The interwoven patterns of tattoos reminded Claire of the ancient runes. And then she decided to write a book about a world in which there is a secret society of demon hunters whose magic is based on a system of tattooed runes. Claire wanted to write book that combines elements of traditional and urban fantasy.

The main heroine of the novel "The City of Bones" 15-year-old schoolgirl from Brooklyn Clary Frey. Once she witnesses a strangeThe murder, which mysterious people make, covered with tattoos. After the murder the corpse of the victim evaporates! From now on, Clary's life changes forever.

The heroine learns that in our world with peopleside-by-side beings live, which we are accustomed to consider heroes of myths, fairy tales and legends - werewolves, vampires, demons and other undead, who in most cases treat people very unfriendly. And the only ones who can protect people from evil are Twilight Hunters, mortal warriors, in whose veins blood of angels flows.

Clary manages to slip into the world of TwilightHunters, hidden from ordinary people with the help of magic spells. She will have to learn a lot about herself and her people, reveal many secrets, make new friends (and, alas, make enemies), and save my mother from the demon stolen by her.

As we have already said, "City of Bones" is the first book from cycle "Cannon of Death", which also includes the novels City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of the Fallen Angels and City of Lost Souls. As of May 2014, the publication of the sixth novel of the cycle, "City of Heavenly Fire," is scheduled.

Also, the writer is working on a trilogy "Hell Mechanisms", which describes the prehistory of the "Cannons of Death" (the action takes place in the same universe, but in the Victorian era), and plans to continue the story begun in the cycle of the "Cannon of Death," a trilogy "Dark Artifacts".

The novel "The City of Bones" will be filmed. The project was directed by the Norwegian Harold Zwart, the role of Clary Frey will perform Lily Collins. Filming will take place from May to November 2012 in Toronto, and will be screened in August 2013.

Quotes from the book "The City of Bones"

"All teenagers in the world feel exactly the same: depressed or misunderstood - in general, others: just royal descendants, mistakenly born in peasant families"

"For some reason, the word" remember "arose, butthe true meaning of the rune did not fit within words. It implied both the rays of light that penetrated the grill of the baby's crib and the smell of rain on the streets of the city, the pain of an unforgettable loss, the bitterness of humiliation, and the cruel joke that memory plays with old people, when the most ancient events emerge in my head with extraordinary clarity, and recent memories are not preserved at all "

"It is much easier to perceive enemies as a single mass, and not as specific individuals, who need to be assessed separately"