I was trying to go... somewhere. But I kept getting pulled back here. I couldn't stop walking, couldn't stop thinking. About the first time I ever saw you, and how after I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institute. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it-- it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew. And then to find out the reason I felt like that-- like you were some part of me I'd lost and never ever knew I was missing until I saw you again-- that the reason was that you were my sister, it felt like some cosmic joke. Like God was spitting on me. I don't even know for what-- for thinking that I actually get to have you, that I would deserve something like that, to be happy. I couldn't imagine what it was I'd done that I was being punished for--

While living in Los Angles Clare began writing fan fiction using the name Cassandra Claire. Clare has stated that City of Fallen Angels is actually the start of a second Mortal Instruments cycle which will include two other books named City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire. Awards


City of Bones
2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers
Finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 2007
An American Library Association Teens Top Ten Award winner 2008
2010 Georgia Peach Book Awards for Teen Readers
Winner of The 2010 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award
Winner of the 2010 Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice Award
A Texas TAYSHAS title 2010
Shortlisted for the 2010 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award
Shortlisted for The 2010 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
Shortlisted for The North Carolina School Library Media Association Young Adult Book Award
Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee (Teen) 2010
Iowa High School Book Award Nominee 2009-2010
North Carolina YA Book Award Nominee 2009-2010
New Hampshire Flume Teen Reader’s Choice Award Nominee 2010
Nevada Young Readers’ Award Nominee 2010
Ohio Buckeye Teen Book Award Nominee 2009
Oregon Young Adult Network Book Rave Reading List Title 2008
South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee 2009-2010
Shortlisted for the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards


City of ACassandra Clares
A 2009 ALA Teens Top Ten Title


Bibliography


The Mortal Instruments Series
City of Bones (2007)
City of ACassandra Clares (2008)
City of Glass (2009)
City of Fallen Angels (2011)
City of Lost Souls (released 8 May 2012)
City of Heavenly Fire (scheduled March 2014)
City of Fallen Angels City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire were originally a sequel trilogy of The Mortal Instruments.