[/caption]Clary has grown up thinking that she’s entirely normal, until one day she sees people who others seem to miss, their eyes just skate over them. Enter the world of the Shadowhunters, where humans born with the blood of an angel in their veins, the Nephilim, fight to defend the world from the evils that would wish humanity harm. Uneasy alliances with vampires and werewolves, dashing warlocks, a likable heroine and a marvellously sardonic hero make these books a fantastic read.
This is one of those series to get utterly lost in, so if you’re planning to read them, make sure that you have them all lined up. This is a complex series of many characters, but they are drawn well enough that I found myself gossiping about them with students right away, and I must admit that there is something slightly soap-opera-ish about it all. Forbidden love (there were several very confused teens wandering around the library muttering, ‘But it’s so right! And so wrong!’ an evil absent father, a complex history and back story, heroism, awkward and potentially forbidden love (there’s a scene in City of Glass that had us all squealing and clapping our hands), loyalty and revenge. Combined with this is a consistent and workable mythology. Oh, and really nasty demons and monsters too. Awesome. And I’m totally crushing on Luke.
There are some books that you read, love and hug quietly to your chest. They’re a private experience. This series is very much a shared one, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the range of its appeal; I’d thought that this might be dismissed as a girly book, but the boys in our reading circle seem to have embraced it just as fully as the girls. To quote one of them ‘Well, it’s a bit like Twilight, but, you know, good.’
Bring on City of Fallen Angels.
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