Archive for January 2012

Book News: City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments Book 2) Cover Revealed!


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January 5, 2012
8:46PM


The Mortal Instrument Series will release its 5th installment on May 8, 2012.For the first time, the book cover of the Mortal Instrument Series shows the actual face of the "characters". 


But with this cover featuring the main pair of the story, who will be in the cover for book 6: City of Heavenly Fire?

Meanwhile, aside from this interesting cover of book 6, Clare also released the prologue of the book. What a torture! May 6, please be here, NOW!

Simon stood and stared numbly at the front door of his house.
He'd never known another home. This was the place his parents had brought him home to when he was born. He had grown up within the walls of the Brooklyn row house. He'd played on the street under the leafy shade of the trees in the summer, and had made improvised sleds out of garbage can lids in the winter. In this house his whole family had sat shivah after his father had died. Here he had kissed Clary for the first time.

"The Secret Worlds Teens Hide From Adults" by Cassandra Clare


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January 3, 2011
 9:37PM
Here's an essay written by Casandra Clare (author of Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices Series) about teenagers' fascination and love for  Young Adult Fantasy Books.

Walt Disney/ Walden Media
Scene from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”



Between Platform 10 and Platform 9 in King’s Cross train station is Platform 9 ¾, which can be reached only by magic.


Somewhere near the town of Forks, Washington, the woods are full of vampires and werewolves.


Opening the door of an ordinary wardrobe takes you to a world where it is always winter and never Christmas.


Being a teenager is being caught between two worlds, occupying a liminal space where you’re not quite a child and not quite an adult. The concept of adolescence is a modern one — in earlier times, teenagers would be marrying, fighting and dying like adults, and today’s teens yearn for that adult power (making your own decisions!), while at the same time being afraid of it (enormous responsibilities come with adulthood). These days, adolescence is considered training wheels for adulthood, a time through which you must be guided and protected from too much autonomy.


But like any other training wheels, the training wheels of adolescence are irksome and teens can’t wait to get rid of them — to get on that bike and ride. The category of young adult fantasy books reflects that tension. In many YA fantasies, there is a hidden world, usually secret from ordinary people and most adults, where magic reigns and the kids are the ones with the power.