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Cassandra Clare recently opened up about Clockwork Prince, the newest installment in her Infernal Devices series. And on Friday the newest issue of EW, our Entertainers of the Year special, hit stands. So with the new issue on our mind, we decided to ask Clare about her personal favorite entertainer of 2011. Then, she offered up her picks for the best YA books of the year — other than her own, of course. Read on for Clare’s choices:
Clockwork Prince, the second book in Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices series hit shelves Tuesday. She graciously took time out of her busy schedule to sit down with us and answer a few burning questions about Prince and her popular YA series, Infernal Devices and Mortal Instruments. If you haven’t had a chance to read the newest installment, there are a few minor plot spoilers ahead. Here, Clare talks about the heart-breaking ending of Clockwork Prince, and gives fans a few clues about what to expect for her next books.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I know it’s still early, but what kind of response have you received for Clockwork Prince?
CASSANDRA CLARE: I’ve gotten a great response so far. You always worry because every book is different. People are like, “After your sixth book in print you must be used to it.” But you never get used to it. It’s kind of like having a baby. Every emergence into the world is different and going to be met with a different response. I knew that I put a lot of my heart and soul into this book. I loved writing it, but it has parts of it that are very sad. When you tug on your reader’s heartstrings, sometimes they can get a little upset.
Speaking of, that was a pretty sad ending! How have people reacted to the Jem/Tessa/Will storyline?
Heartbreak. READ FULL STORY »
The fourth novel in the Mortal Instruments series hits stores today. Below is the official trailer for City of Fallen Angels which promises there will be blood, vampires, people making out and then slapping each other, and sonorous Latin chants.
The fourth book in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series comes out tomorrow, so here’s another video from the folks at Simon & Schuster. This one is was “made” by Maureen, a new character introduced in City of Fallen Angels. Take a gander.
(And remember to sign up for the Mortal Instruments sweepstakes.)
The audiobook for the fourth novel in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series will be read by Castle actress Molly Quinn and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick. Here’s a quick look at the two of them recording City of Fallen Angels, as well as a clip of Westwick reading the first chapter. Check it out below, and remember to sign up for the sweepstakes hosted by Simon & Schuster: A box set of audio CDs signed by Quinn and Westwick is among the prizes.
City of Fallen Angels, the fourth book in Cassandra Clare’s bestselling, and soon-to-be-a-movie, Mortal Instruments series, is set to hit bookstores on April 5. In anticipation of that release date, we at EW will be posting an exclusive video for the series each day for the next four days. Additionally, fans can register in a special sweepstakes hosted by Simon & Schuster. Just click here and register and you could win a variety of Mortal Instruments prizes, including a set of Cassandra Clare books. Here’s your first trailer, a refresher course on what’s happened in the past three books. Check it out:
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 »
