Sebastian, Clary's brother who was made evil with demon blood by their father, Valentine, has some truly diabolical plans in store. She also introduces her first autistic character, Tiberius, who will figure more prominently in her follow-up series, The Dark Artifices. Clare includes a gay relationship with all the complexity and then some of a straight one - which is rare, especially for a fantasy series.
They also fight alongside one another, showing loyalty, friendship, and bravery - big themes of the series. The older teen characters drink wine together. There are more sad deaths, mostly by stabbing, and some battle scenes and talk of massacres. The series continues to be bloody and violent, with some truly gory moments - guts spilling, heads rolling - and some profoundly sad ones, such as when a 12-year-old boy must kill his own father because his father drank out of a cup that "turned" him evil. Here main characters have sex for the first time (with a condom), and other couples - straight and gay - do plenty of kissing and rolling around together. But the sexual content is a bit more mature in City of Heavenly Fire and the previous installment, City of Lost Souls, than in the others. Parents need to know that Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series has always been meant for more mature teen readers. A vampire smokes a cigarette (noting that the undead don't have to worry about cancer).ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. There's wine at a party as well as wine brought out in a cave hideout that older teens drink, plus champagne at a wedding that everyone drinks. Simon's given spiked blood and falls asleep drunk.
A mention that baby Jace was cut out of the body of his dead mother.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. An 11-year-old girl looks at pictures of her parents dead on a beach. Much talk of the heroes missing their brother Max, who was killed in a previous book. Talk of many werewolves and Shadowhunters turned or killed en masse. The heroes face kidnapping and imprisonment, plus there are a few nasty injuries from demons, fire, and a stabbing. Shadowhunters must fight against and kill former loved ones who were "turned" by drinking from a demon cup a child must kill the shell of his own father, and there's talk of a man committing suicide after having to kill his turned best friend. Expect a few gory scenes including a demon's death with a "jumbled mass of steaming internal organs pouring out," and a werewolf's eyes being clawed and then the claws being "covered in blood and smears of liquid brain matter and vitreous humor." There also are deaths and a couple decapitations in battle scenes and some sad deaths from stabbings. There's usually plenty of blood - and ichor or demon blood - spilled in this series.
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