Clary Fray, a normal teenage girl, is thrust into a world unknown when she starts seeing and drawing a strange symbol. Then her mother is kidnapped and her world begins to turn upside down as she meets Jace Wayland, a shadowhunter. He leads her to the knowledge she hadn’t realized she’d even lost.

      This movie, though not as good as the book, was action packed as well as romantic and bares a twisted story line that makes you both love and hate the characters. Magic, vampires, lies, painful truths, betrayals and happy endings paint every scene in the movie. I recommend this movie to anyone who seeks an adventure of magic and lies.

      It starts out with a simple scene, Clary talking to her best friend as she got ready to go out. Then you meet Clary’s mother and her mothers best friend Luke who hint that they have to  tell her something as soon as she leaves. She and her friend go to a poetry reading and then a teen club called Pandemonium. Then she witness something that no one else seemed to see. Her friend calls her crazy and she hides her ability from everyone else. The two continue on meeting Jace, running from demons and meeting with a warlock.

     I thought that the actors matched the characters well and that they really brought the movie into perspective where the book couldn’t. What I didn’t really like about the movie was the changing and removing of scenes that were in the book as well as removing characters that would later be of importance.