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City of bones and city of ashes summery?

I just got the book city of glass for Christmas which is the third book in a series I read a out a year ago, and I really want to read it but I can't remember what happened in the other two books which I have lost. So if someone could give me a brief discription of what happened....? All I remember is what happens between Jace clary and Simon. :/

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    City of Bones

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    The main characters, Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, are at a club where Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teens, and is shocked that Simon and the club's security guard, cannot see the culprit - a boy called Jace, who claims that the boy he murdered was a demon. The next day, Jace offers to take Clary to meet his tutor, but before she can do so, she receives a distressing phone call from her mother. She returns home to find her mother missing, the apartment trashed, and a monstrous creature lying in wait for her. She defeats the creature, but is injured in the process, and Jace takes her to his home, called "the Institute", to recuperate. There, she meets Hodge Starkweather, Jace's tutor, as well as his siblings Isabelle and Alec Lightwood.

    Returning to her apartment with Jace, Clary is attacked again by a demon, called a "Forsaken", which Jace kills. They escape through a magical portal to Luke's, a family friend's, house, where they meet Simon and overhear a conversation between Luke and two men who Jace reveals to have killed his father. They return, with Simon, to the Institute and recount the conversation to Hodge, who in return tells them the tale of a group of '"Shadowhunters", or demon hunters who are invisible to humans, known as "the Circle", who attempted to kill all "Downworlders", or demons. Although their leader, Valentine, was supposedly burned to death, Hodge feels that Valentine may have survived. Hodge also reveals that he, the Lightwoods, Luke, and Clary's mother were all members of the Circle.

    Hodge then acquires the help of a monk with magical powers, called a "Silent Brother", Jeremiah, to discover how Clary is able to see Shadowhunters and why she was attacked. Jeremiah discovers a block on Clary's mind, and takes her and Jace to the City of Bones, where the Silent Brothers attempt to break it. Although the attempt fails, Clary discovers flashes of information, particularly the name Magnus Bane, which, with Isabelle's help, Clary traces to a party, which she attends with Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle. There, they discover that Magnus is the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he placed the block on Clary, although his attempts to help her remember are unhelpful. During the party, Simon is turned into a rat by a faerie drink, and Jace and Clary have to rescue him after he is taken home by a vampire.

    After returning to the Institute, Jace and Clary talk and eventually kiss, but when Simon catches them and gets angry they argue with each other. Clary begins to draw, and draws a rune which allows her to make her drawing real, leading her to believe that this was how her mother hid the Mortal Cup, within a Tarot card. They return to Clary's apartment, and are attacked by a demon who is searching for the Mortal Cup. The battle leaves Alec badly injured and Simon saves their lives. They return to the Institute and give Hodge the Cup, but he betrays them and gives the Cup, and Jace, to Valentine. When he tries to escape, Hodge is attacked by Luke in werewolf form. Luke then tells Clary that Valentine was her father, before he and his pack attack Valentine's HQ.

    During the attack, Luke and Clary get inside, and while Luke is distracted, Clary finds Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals that he is also Jace's father, making them siblings. Luke then returns to fight Valentine, with Jace's help, but Valentine escapes to Idris, where he has hidden the Cup. Clay retrieves her mother, who is in a coma, and takes her to a hospital. In the meantime, Alec has been healed by Magnus Bane. Clary and Jace meet at the Institute and express their frustration that they cannot be together.

    City of Ashes

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    After Jace is sent away from his home with Alec's parents, he picks a fight with a werewolf pack. Luke rescues him and, together with Clary, they confront Alec's mother, Maryse, who says she sent Jace away to spare him from the approaching Inquisitor. When the Inquisitor arrives, she locks Jace in the City of Bones. However, that night Valentine kills the Silent Brothers to get to the Soul Sword. Clary, Isabelle and Alec save Jace, and the Inquisitor agrees to let Jace stay with Magnus while he recovers.

    They go to The Faerie Realm, where Clary is tricked into eating fairy food, and is not allowed to leave until she kisses the boy she most desires. She kisses Jace, which angers Simon and he leaves, only to be brought back to the Institute by Raphael as he is dying, with no choice but to be turned into a vampire. Luke and Maia are attacked by demons, and go after them, while Jace leaves to visit Valentine on a boat in the river. This leads the Inquisitor to suspect Jace of working with Valentine, and she imprisons Jace, planning to use him as a hostage until Valentine returns the Mortal Instruments. However, Jace escapes by leaping supernaturally high above his prison's walls, revealing that this is the ability Valentine's experiments gave him

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