Navigating the Shadow World. The Unofficial Guide to Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments

305 Pages·2013·3.411 MB·English

by  Liv Spencer

The Unofficial Guide to Cassandra Clare’s
THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS
Liv Spencer
ECW Press
Copyright © Liv Spencer, 2013
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Navigating the shadow world : the unofficial guide to Cassandra
Clare’s The mortal instruments / Liv Spencer.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
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1. Clare, Cassandra. Mortal instruments—Juvenile literature. 2. Clare,
Cassandra. Infernal devices—Juvenile literature. 3. Clare, Cassandra—Film
adaptations—Juvenile literature. 4. Mortal instruments (Motion picture : 2013).
I. Title. II. Title: Unofficial guide to Cassandra Clare’s The mortal instruments.
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The publication of Navigating the Shadow World has been generously supported by the
Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities,
and by the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit.
The marketing of this book was made possible with the support of the Ontario Media
Development Corporation.
CONTENTS
Introduction 7 Meet the Cast 179
Lily Collins as Clary Fray 181
The Cassandra Clare Story 9 Jamie Campbell Bower
as Jace Wayland 186
Words with Friends 23
Kevin Zegers as Alec Lightwood 190
The Bane Chronicles 33
Robert Sheehan as Simon Lewis 192
Jemima West as Isabelle Lightwood 196
The Mortal Instruments 35
Lena Headey as Jocelyn Fray 197
City of Bones 37 Jonathan Rhys Meyers
The Nephilim 40 as Valentine Morgenstern 200
Warlocks 52 Aidan Turner as Luke Garroway 202
City of Ashes 61 Jared Harris as Hodge Starkweather 204
Fair Folk 65 C.C.H. Pounder
Running with the Pack 68 as Madame Dorothea 206
In the Weapons Room 78 Kevin Durand as Emil Pangborn 208
City of Glass 87 Godfrey Gao as Magnus Bane 210
“Those Creepy
White Power Guys” 94 The Infernal Devices 215
Paradise Lost 99
Clockwork Angel 217
The Divine Comedy 104
Clockwork Prince 235
City of Fallen Angels 111
Bridget’s Songs 249
Lilith, Not-So-Fair 115
Clockwork Princess 251
The Mark of Cain 127
Bridget’s Songs 258
Vampires 130
The Lord of Language 264
City of Lost Souls 139
Reading with Will and Tessa 272
A Band by Any
A Tale of Two Cities 273
Other Name . . . 148
We Are Shadowhunters 279
Building a City of Bones 159
Selected Sources 291
Acknowledgments 301

One must always be careful of books,
and what is inside them,
for words have the power to change us.

— Tessa Gray, Clockwork Angel

INTRODUCTION
If you had to describe the Shadowhunter Chronicles to someone,
you might be tempted to start with the supernatural elements:
Angelic warriors! Demon battles! Magic runes! Vampires and
werewolves and warlocks and faeries! And certainly Cassandra Clare
has created a complex and fascinating world, one in which all the
stories are true and yet surprises abound.
But of course it’s not only the rich mythology that has turned
this series into a bestselling sensation. The Shadowhunter Chronicles
are populated by wonderful characters (who doesn’t want to party
with Magnus, watch anime with Simon, or talk literature with Tessa
and Will?), and what makes the series truly shine are the ways in
which their struggles reflect our own mundane reality. The books are
about self-discovery, choice, goodness, hope, loss, and all the many
wonderful and wretched permutations of love: whether shocking,
inconvenient, all-consuming, uplifting, maddening, forbidden,
unconditional, unbidden, unrequited, or all of those things at once.
And it’s not all romantic love. Perhaps the most powerful love is the
kind that forges bonds stronger than blood ties. In a world fixated
on lineage and alliance, the strongest and most resilient families are
those the characters create themselves.
This sense of family extends beyond the page to the Shadowhunter
community among us mundanes. There are few fandoms that can
claim such dedication, enthusiasm, and incredible passion. We don’t
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need runes of initiation or fighting gear, we just need the books and
another fan to talk/rant/rave/debate with. Someone who has glimpsed
Cassandra Clare’s Shadow World and understands the agonies and
the ecstasies of having the Sight. The Shadowhunter community is a
chosen family, one that welcomes all kinds.
Though many readers will know the ins and outs of this fictional
universe, hopefully between these pages are some unexplored corners:
from Cassandra Clare’s incredible story, to an examination of each
book in the Mortal Instruments and the Infernal Devices, to the
making of the City of Bones film and the cast who brings these beloved
characters to life, to the fandom that keeps Clare inspired to write
book after book. Navigating the Shadow World is for that ever-growing
family of Shadowhunters.
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