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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Here It IS...........

The wait is finally over! The cover for COFA has been revealed.

Here's what Cassie said,
"As promised earlier, the cover for City of Fallen Angels is now up over at Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life! There's also an excerpt from the first chapter of the book.

I've always loved the covers Cliff Neilson has done for the MI series. Each one is fun and different in its own right. For the "second cycle" of The Mortal Instruments we wanted to do something that would link the cover aesthetically to the earlier covers while having a different quality that announced that this was a new chapter in these characters' lives. We decided that each of the Second Cycle covers is going to have two characters on it — in this case Clary and Simon."

Cassie mentions the little details like Clary's green eyes and the M ring she wears around her neck.

Here's a teaser from the excerpt quoted from EW, "Simon glanced toward the window. It was a brisk night, and the wind was blowing leaves across Second Avenue like handfuls of thrown confetti. There was a girl walking down the street, a girl in a tight belted trench coat, with long black hair that flew in the wind. People turned to watch her as she walked past. Simon had looked at girls like that before in the past, idly wondering where they were going, who they were meeting. Not guys like him, he knew that much.

Except this one was. The bell on the diner’s front door rang as the door opened, and Isabelle Lightwood came in. She smiled when she saw Simon, and came toward him, shrugging off her coat and drap- ing it over the back of the chair before she sat down. Under the coat she was wearing one of what Clary called her “typical Isabelle out- fits”: a tight short velvet dress, fishnet stockings, and boots. There was a knife stuck into the top of her left boot that Simon knew only he could see; still, everyone in the diner was watching as she sat down, flinging her hair back. Whatever she was wearing, Isabelle drew attention like a fireworks display.

Beautiful Isabelle Lightwood. When Simon had met her, he’d as- sumed she’d have no time for a guy like him. He’d turned out to be mostly right. Isabelle liked boys her parents disapproved of, and in her universe that meant Downworlders—faeries, werewolves, and vamps. That they’d been dating regularly for the past month or two amazed him, even if their relationship was limited mostly to infre- quent meetings like this one. And even if he couldn’t help but wonder, if he’d never been changed into a vampire, if his whole life hadn’t been altered in that moment, would they be dating at all?" (quoted from EW)


Read the COFA excerpt here!

What do you guys think?

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Our Favorite Reads for 2010- Debut Authors













































Yesterday we shared with you our favorite 2010 books from a series and today we're sharing our favorite Reads by Debut Authors. This year there are a lot of fantastic debut books, which made it really hard narrowing our list down to 10. These are the books that swept us away and made us think about them days after we read them. These are the books that we highly recommend picking up... you know books make the perfect Christmas/holiday presents.

Here's our list for Our Favorite 2010 Books by Debut Authors:

1) Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
2) Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3) Paranormacly by Kiersten White
4) Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
5) Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
6) Sea by Heidi Kling
7) Mistwood by Leah Cypess
8) Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
9) The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
10) Siren by Tricia Rayburn

At the end of the week we'll share each of our top 10 favorite reads from 2010, and have some giveaways based off our Favorite Reads for 2010.

What is your favorite Debut Book from this year?

*This list is from a combined list of favorites from 5 Mundie Moms reviewers.

Twitter Tuesday - Cassie Clare

Artwork by bhanesidhe

Cassie tweeted a mini-cookie from The Clockwork Prince late last night and oh boy, does it ever make me think:

"Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?" —Jem

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