The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel, Vol. 3

The Mortal Instruments: The Graphic Novel #3

by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean (Artist)

The third installment of the graphic novel adaptation of Cassandra Clare's bestselling The Mortal Instruments!

With the truth about her family brought to light, Clary just wants to find a way to return to as normal a life as possible. But with Downworlders being killed around the city and Jace in serious trouble, it might be time for her to stand up and grab the power she never even knew she had inside her... The suspense keeps building! What will happen to these beloved characters, brought to life by Cassandra Jean's lush artwork and beautiful color illustrations? Includes a brand-new, exclusive scene written by Cassandra Clare!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Manga, Comics, Urban Fantasy

218 pages, Paperback

First published October 29, 2019

About the author

Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.
Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.

City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.

Reviews

[Josu Diamond · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se me siguen haciendo cortos.

En este caso, he estado a punto de otorgarle las cuatro estrellas. ¿Por qué? Pues porque considero que es uno de los volúmenes más completos y donde realmente la trama comienza a despegar hacia la guerra, los enfrentamientos, los malvados planes de Valentine...

Las novelas gráficas de The Mortal Instruments son una muy buena manera -y lo diré siempre- de introducirse en la historia principal sin ahondar demasiados en detalles, pero con la información suficiente para que una persona que desconoce el Mundo de las Sombras pueda enterarse de lo que pasa.

En este número he apreciado realmente el worldbuilding de Cassandra Clare, debido a detalles que suceden durante los capítulos, los cuales revelaban informaciones o tramas que incluso más de diez años después continúan siendo referenciadas o relevantes en las novelas. Eso solo demuestra, de nuevo, lo bien atado y estructurado que tiene todo.



Respecto a las ilustraciones, sí que he sentido que este volumen tiene menos trabajo en ese sentido. Son más sencillas, aunque no es algo que se note demasiado, pero sí lo suficiente como para darte cuenta de que en los dos primeros volúmenes sí que eran más detalladas. Lo entendería si sacaran dos al año, pero con el calendario de publicación actual, he de decir que no entiendo muy bien por qué se debería trabajar menos en un tomo que sale de manera anual.

En resumidas cuentas: para fans es genial poder revivir la historia de esta manera, volviendo a lo que hizo que todo comenzara. Es una forma diferentes y enriquecida de ampliar el universo de Cazadores de Sombras. Para quien no sea fan, es una buena manera de introducirse de un modo más ágil.

[Ria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Omfg hell yeah. Isabelle's design got improved. fucking finally? 5stars just for that.
There were scenes i wanted that got cut but that's life i guess. Not 100% sure that i know which scene is the brand-new exclusive scene... Not gonna lie tho, I wanted the new scene to be of Jace and Magnus living together ooorrr that scene where Alec fell on his neck.
And now we wait for City Of Ashes Part 2....

[Caylynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I noticed that a lot, and I mean a lot of scenes were skimmed through or skipped entirely. I would much rather own a large quantity of graphic novels in order to get all the content of the books than only have a few and not get certain scenes.

Overall, the artwork was even better in this one than the previous two. Cassandra Jean's interpretations of Jace and Magnus continue to be my favorites. Simon, Alec and Izzy looked infinitely better as well.

Now I'm just stuck waiting for the fourth installment. MAN.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are always such fun reads!

[Maartje · Rating 5 out of 5]

❤️ The Mortal Instruments (3) - Cassandra Clare ❤️

⚔️ Shadowhunter universe
💗 forbidden romance
🦄 mythical creatures
😈😇 demons VS angels
🔮 magic

[Victoria ✮⋆˙ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really really hope they’re gonna do the whole series like this!! I’m soooo in love with the art!!

[Ash🍉 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars

The added scene with Simon in the hotel was cool

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

The incest was hard enough to get through the first time.

[Camilla (thecrazyreader) · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stelle!

Quanto mi manca questo mondo! Vorrei rileggere tutti i libri immediatamente, ma la mia lunghissima TBR non me lo permette.
Questa è la prima parte di Città di Cenere, che credo sia il libro che mi è piaciuto di meno dell'intera serie. I disegni a me piacciono e hanno scelto le parti chiave della narrazione da rappresentare, ma per me manca una scena fondamentale, cioè la prima volta che Simon e Clary si baciano. Senza questa scena non si vede il cambiamento tra migliori amici e coppia. Comunque ho adoro rileggere questi pezzi del libro che mi hanno emozionato e fatto divertire, adesso non vedo l'ora di avere in mano il volume n.4!

Wrap-Up Ottobre 2019: https://spillthebook.blogspot.com/201...

[Cherlynn | cherreading · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't get enough of this series!!! So much romantic angst in this one and I love all the banter. Poor Simon 🥺 There's already character art in full colour so I don't understand why they hadn't just done it for the whole series... can you just imagine how stunning it would be?

[yun with books · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE EVERY SINGLE PAGES! PERIOOOODDDDTTTTTTTT.

[Drew's ambitious reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this graphic novel in one sitting today and loved it! Where is volume 4 at???

[amxndita (taylor's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5/5

[Noura Khalid (theperksofbeingnoura) · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are always so much fun to read! I reread City of Ashes this month already but I just had to pick up the graphic novel. The art is gorgeous as always.

[belle ☆ﾐ (thisbellereadstoo) · Rating 4 out of 5]

oh man, i remember the kiss scene between clary and jace in the seelie realm in the novel and it was awkward as fuck. now that it’s immortalised into the graphic novel, i can’t un-see it. the whole simon x clary x jace situation is just a mess. i remember just wanting to skip past everything because at that point i still didn’t know clary and jace aren’t siblings at all. also, poor simon. i don’t doubt that clary likes/loves him but just not the kind that he wants.

any way, the plot is thickening with valentine stealing the second mortal instrument and killing the silent brothers. he’s just stirring shit whenever he can and summoning demons even though he hates them.

[Catherine Lefay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lo mismo que el anterior, le falta agregarle un poco más del desarrollo que se da en el libro porque si no parece que todo sucede de forma muy rápida.

Aún así disfruto mucho de ver algunas escenas ilustradas, amo el estilo de Cassandra Jean.

[TJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This adaption continues to be amazing! Many of the visuals are like they jumped out of my head, which is so cool to see. It was cool to have a scene from Simon’s POV at the hotel, which wasn’t in the original novel. We skipped Maia’s background story, but I’m assuming we’ll get that in a future installment, which will definitely feel more natural, so I think it’s a smart decision. Also, Alec and Magnus are on the cover! I was almost expecting to get an extra scene between them since they’re so sparse in the original trilogy, but nothing on that front yet. Maybe in the next one? 5/5 stars

[Luly · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Ciudad de ceniza" es un libro que fue borrado completamente de mi memoria a excepción de la escena de Simon y la escena de la corte seelie, así que esta novela gráfica fue un gran ayuda memoria. Había olvidado lo hdp que era Maryse en este libro y lo buen villano que es Valentine (honestly, el mejor que hizo Cassie junto con Jonathan). Y los comienzos de Malec ❤️
Como siempre, los dibujos de C. Jean con HERMOSOS
Aaaaunque, creo que le faltaron escenas (?) Probablemente si no hubiera leído la novela no entendería bien qué está pasando.

[Clare Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I forgot this was coming out so this was such a treat! I continue to enjoy Cassandra Jean’s art with my fav characters and I’m actually also re-reading City of Ashes right now (this volume is the first half of City of Ashes), so it was fun to read along with the actual book.

This volume included some of my favorite Simon moments which I was SO happy to see illustrated!! I can gush about Simon Lewis for a millennium so I’ll just stop this review here haha

[Sofie Amalie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a major Shadowhunter fan I really enjoyed watching some of my favourite scenes come to life through the illustrations, but I don´t think it would be that great of a graphic novel if you haven´t read the books beforehand.

[jaz²² · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo enganchada que estoy es increíble

[zumaina ☕️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

just because of the incest I’m rating it 3.7 ⭐️
but I love the graphic comic adaptation and Cassandra Jean is always a win ✋🏼

[Peyton (Taylor’s Version) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. The most iconic quote wasn’t in it

[honey · Rating 4 out of 5]

vampire simon is so precious to me and i will protect him with my life

[megs · Rating 3 out of 5]

everyone but isabelle, alec, and magnus annoyed me

[Florencia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cómo amo VER todo ese drama y todo ese MALEC <3

[Cali Teer · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's not fair how short these are. I need them all nowww!!

What can I say? It's amazing, incredible, fun (did I say amazing?) and so well done. Makes me want to re read the series again but I probably shouldn't since that would bring me to re read number 8* (* maybe 9?) and I think my other books would be insulted.

I just want to see my baby, Sebastian, make his dramatic appearance already! Give me my evil little shithead!

[Gauri · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite one so far!

[livia · Rating 5 out of 5]

i've been loving these graphic novels so much !

[Mai Deleuran · Rating 4 out of 5]

*4.5

This was surprisingly a really good time. I hated this part of the book, but I couldn’t put this one down. The faerie court scene still gives me the ick tho