Fifteen year old Clara Frey decides to go into a club, Pandemonium with her best friend Simon. When they enter the club Clara see a boy with green hair being followed into a back room. As she investigates she soon sees her first encounter with demon hunters and a demon. Clara in shock and confusion goes home to find her mom worried sick about her and ending up fighting. Clara escapes the house to go to a poetry reading with Simon and meets one of the demon hunters that night, Jace. Jace tries to explain to Clara who he is, and who se really is when Clara gets a phone call from her mom. Her mom telling her to not come home. Clara worries and runs to her home to find it destroyed and her mom not there. As Clara searches the house she encounters a demon and kills it. She wakes up in a bed at the Institute where Jace and the other demon hunters "shadow hunters" live. Clara is taken into a world she as never dreamed of and discovering her true past. On her mission to find her mom Clara encounters warlocks, vampires and werewolves. As Clara gets closer to finding her mom she also gets closer to the shadow hunter Jace. Clara soon discovers that her real dad is actually Valentine. A killer who want to kill all downworlders and also finds out that, Jace is her brother. The book City of Bones is a young adult urban fantasy that will leave you wanting more and more.
