the city of glass

in the book the city of glass by cassandra clare it explore the meanings of a secret love behind a relationship of brother and sister and how it effects their normal lives. everyone knows that clary and jace really love each other but to try and hide jace know is going out with a family friend. this is a big deal because no matter how hard clary tries she still loves her brother jace who can move on no matter how many people seem to love her she cant release her feelings for jace. this is problematic because he now hates her because she snuck into Idris the magical city of the shadow hunters. she had an encounter with him at the house were they were staying where he told her she is stupid and does not think about her actions before she does them. tis is a big deal because clary came expecting a warm welcome but instead got a slap in the face and it hurt so bad she is now using jace friend as a rebound guy.

city of what is now ashes

In the book the city of ashes by Cassandra Claire it brings up a lot of interesting topics such as unforeseen power deception and death. now as for unforeseen power the main character (Clary) has the power to create symbols that do different things called runes. runes can heal, destroy, or give you special skills. Clary can create new runes which do amazingly powerful things. for instance Clary made a rune which eliminates fear which in turn helps you but can actually be good for you at the same time. it can be good by giving you no fear towards a fight with a demon but at the same time make you unleash all of your deepest secrets. also in the end of the book  she made a rune which put all of her power into and completely destroyed a huge boat ripping all of the screws apart from everything. now for deception Clary's best friend simon is turned into a vampire and this happens because she upset him so he got reckless and got himself killed. now that he is a vampire he can not go out at sunrise which makes it difficult. also Clary is in love with Jace who is a supporting character who turned out to be her brother.