Nothing better than breaking with the stereotype, even more so in something that should be as free and open as literary creation. I say this more than anything because authors such as Brandom sanderson or the already veterans Terry Pratchett o George RR Martin, all of them heirs of Tolkien . So when we stumble upon Cassandra clare it seems as if there is something strange about it. And that she is not the absolute pioneer of the feminine in the fantastic (we cannot forget JK Rowling, bestseller where there is one thanks to his fantasies...)
However, it is still curious that both Cassandra and JK Rowling are still today those pseudonyms under which their authors protect themselves as someone who is still uncomfortable, out of place.
In the specific case of Cassandra Clare, her almost absolute dedication to her series «Shadowhunters» it has occupied a large part of his literary dedication. But it is something that usually happens to all fantastic writers. If for us it is fascinating to inhabit new worlds, let's imagine what it must be like to create them for the first time such that a possible God with the Earth. As if to abandon it the first time ...
Top 3 recommended novels by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones
In the writers of great sagas you always have to start at the beginning. Quality is likely to be sacrificed for new, more advanced deliveries that get to the point with greater dynamism. But it is not advisable to jump through new worlds located outside our usual vectors of time and space ...
Furthermore, it is always interesting to know that starting point, in the case of this author taken from the heart of a nocturnal and strange Manhattan, changed under the unequal prism of a city given over to new dimensions. At Pandemonium, New York's trendy nightclub, Clary follows an attractive blue-haired boy until she witnesses his death at the hands of three young men covered in strange tattoos.
From that night on, his destiny joins that of those three Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to freeing the earth from demons and, above all, that of Jace, a boy who looks like an angel and tends to act like an idiot... I have always thought that there is nothing better than launching ourselves into the most intense fantasy, even into an open grave, from the proximity of the recognizable, just before the vestiges of our world can be devoured by the new life that awaits us. Not in vain, young and not so young readers immersed themselves with the same pleasure in a saga that goes beyond the stereotypes of the most youthful literary field to shake us with a fast-paced, urban, dystopian, magnetic fantasy.
City of Lost Souls
If you ask any reader of this series, they will surely mark this installment as the best of the series in 95% of the cases.
In the first place, because it was one of the most anticipated installments after a relentless turn between almost completely victorious shadows throughout 4 volumes. But the author had left that thread of hope that every reader of any type of action novel likes to cling to so much: Jace is now a servant of evil, linked to Sebastian for all eternity. Only a small group of Shadowhunters believe their salvation possible. To achieve this, they must challenge the Conclave, and they must act without Clary. Because Clary is playing a very dangerous game at her own risk.
If he loses, the price he must pay is not only to give up his life, but also Jace's soul. Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or has she lost him forever? Is the price to pay too high, even for love?
Crystal City
The third part that makes the adventure of the Shadowhunters take off again. It is not that the second part is minor, but the second always appears with its transitional character, it must be a matter of psychology.
Here things happen again with the spirited rhythm of the discovery of new fantastic spaces in the series, without time to catch up breath and with that dilemma between fantastic and real worlds that always give the series a feeling of disturbing proximity. In her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters. To top it off, Jace doesn't want him to go and Simon has been imprisoned by the Shadowhunters themselves, who don't trust a sun-resistant vampire. Meanwhile, Clary befriends Sebastián, a mysterious Shadowhunter who teams up with her.
Other recommended books by Cassandra Clare
The Guardian of Swords
The beginning of a saga that promises even more than everything previously covered in the extensive imaginary made in Cassandra Clare. The Chronicles of Castelana 1.
In the bustling city-state of Castelana, a young orphan named Kel is snatched from his humble origins and taken to La Colina, where a life full of luxury and danger awaits him. From that moment on, Kel becomes Prince Conor Aurelian's associate, his double, to protect him from any threat. To do this, he lives as his cousin, and despite the fraternal bond that is born between them, Kel's life and Conor's serve opposite purposes: one must die for his king, and the other live for the kingdom of he.
In the Sault, far from the palace walls, Lin Caster, an Ashkar medic, attempts to learn more about her people's ancient magic to save her best friend. However, no one should know more about this ancient force. Studying beyond low magic can have serious consequences, especially for the Ashkar; but Lin doesn't plan to give up.
Despite the separation between Sault and La Colina, the paths of Kel, Conor and Lin will collide due to the plots of the Trapper King, a mysterious criminal who leads the underworld of Castelana. Intertwined by duty, love and destiny, the three young people will discover an unusual conspiracy capable of plunging their nation into war, and the world into chaos.
Can forbidden love overthrow an entire kingdom?
