summary of the novel: City of bones ☠☠

Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is partying hard at the Pandemonium Club with her best friend, Simon.She follows some awful looking people, and discovers that they're demon hunters when they kill a demon in front of her, which dissolves into the floor. Yuck.

Back at home, her mother is acting all cryptic and over-protective, packing up their stuff to move away from New York City and into the country home of her best friend, Luke. Clary isn't pleased, and leaves the apartment to hang out with Simon. She finds him at a poetry reading, where she also runs into Jace, one of the demon hunters (called Shadowhunters or Nephilim). And then she receives a scary phone call from her mother that sounds like she's being attacked.Back at the apartment, Clary finds the place deserted. Except, that is, for the giant, slobbering, poisonous demon that bites her. She kills the demon by herself, but not before she's bitten and passes out. Poisoned, Clary is carried to the Institute by Jace, who introduces her to a few other Shadowhunters. They seek cover in the apartment of Madame Dorothea, a hacky looking psychic who has ties to the Nephilim. Clary realizes that her mother must have hidden the Mortal Cup, a magical artifact that is pretty much the most important thing ever, inside a painting—the hand-painted Tarot deck she made for Madame Dorothea.So they go back to the apartment! Clary cleverly retrieves the cup, but then an evil demon, Abbadon, rushes through the Portal, possesses Madame Dorothea, and tries to kill Clary and Co. They manage to escape and return to the Institute, where Hodge, Jace's tutor, betrays them by handing over the Cup and an unconscious Jace to Valentine, the Big Bad, whom he had been working with all along.Gasp! Hodge flees, pursued by Clary. They confront each other in an alleyway, and Hodge attacks her. She's saved by Luke, who is a werewolf. Double gasp! Inside Valentine's castle, which is under a spell that makes it look like a crumbling mental hospital, Clary finds her mother, who is unconscious and chained up.Then Jace shows up and tells Clary that Valentine is his father. Triple gasp! Which means that Clary and Jace are brother and sister. Okay, we're hyperventilating now. Clary manages to convince Jace that even though Valentine is his father, he's still a murderous, lying buttface. Valentine escapes through a Portal with the Cup, smashing the Portal behind him. Inside Valentine's castle, which is under a spell that makes it look like a crumbling mental hospital, Clary finds her mother, who is unconscious and chained up.Then Jace shows up and tells Clary that Valentine is his father. Triple gasp! Which means that Clary and Jace are brother and sister. Okay, we're hyperventilating now. Clary manages to convince Jace that even though Valentine is his father, he's still a murderous, lying buttface. Valentine escapes through a Portal with the Cup, smashing the Portal behind him.