
Yes, Shelf Lifers, you’re seeing it here first—an exclusive look at the cover for young adult mega-author Cassandra Clare’s forthcoming Clockwork Angel!
Clockwork Angel is the first book in Clare’s new fantasy trilogy, “The Infernal Devices,” and her fourth novel to date. Clare herself is a worldly entertainment-magazine veteran who struck YA gold in 2007, with City of Bones. It was the first novel in her “Mortal Instruments” series — the fourth book, City of Fallen Angels, releases next March — that follows teenager Clary Fray as she navigates a dark, horrific New York underworld. And no, I don’t mean the basement-level bus terminal at Port Authority. Clary’s urban reality includes demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves, and faeries that roam the city’s shadows, wreaking havoc on mere mortals on the sort-of down low. She soon joins the demon-fighting ranks of the Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids charged with protecting humans while also keeping the peace, somehow, among the half-demon Downworlders. Add in some supernatural boys, a tangled web of family secrets, and Manhattan’s inherent magic, and you’ve got the deeply textured alternaworld that Clare developed so deftly. READ FULL STORY »