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TMI/TID/TDA/TEC/TLH Extras

The Mortal Instruments

City of Bones (27 March 2007)

Not For Humans (crossover between Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tale series and Shadowhunter Chronicles, set before City of Bones)

Awake: TBA

Original prologue from Jace’s POV: TBA

Magnus’s Vow (embargoed but Cassie posted a snippet. You can use Google to find it)

Kissed: Magnus and Alec’s First Kiss

When Midnight Comes: Jace’s point of view of his first kiss with Clary: TBA

City of Ashes (25 March 2008)

Because It Is Bitter: The Seelie Court kiss from Jace’s PoV

Deleted scene: Isabelle defends Jace

Deleted scene: Magnus explains the faerie world

City of Glass (24 March 2009)

Read the original first chapter of City of Glass

Chapter 2: The Demon Towers of Alicante*

Jace kisses Alec*

Chapter 7: Where Angels fear to tread*

Chapter 9: This guilty Blood*

Chapter 13: Where There Is Sorrow*

Manor scene: Jace’s PoV

Jace’s letter to Clary

Chapter 20: Weighed in the Balance*

Jocelyn’s story

* Cut, deleted or changed

City of Fallen Angels (5 April 2011)

A story told in postcards

City of Lost Souls (8 May 2012)

A Question of Power

The Act of Falling

A Dark Transformation

Stephen’s letter to Jace

Deleted Malec scene

Deleted Jace scene

Deleted or cut scenes (including the cut DSCS)

City of Heavenly Fire (27 May 2014)

Inside jacket artwork

Uncut Clary and Jace cave scene

Deleted scene/comic: Magnus sends Emma and the Blackthorns back to Los Angeles

Comic strip scene “The Wedding” (exclusive to the UK edition)

Cut scene: Jonathan’s death

Letter from Faerie to Arthur Blackthorn

The Infernal Devices

Clockwork Angel (31 August 2010)

On the Bridge: Will and Jem

Of Loss: Will’s perspective on his kiss with Tessa

Why Will Hates Ducks

Deleted scenes (Jem & Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, Nate & Tessa, Will & Tessa)

Tessa’s letter to Nate: TBA? (Exclusive content from Illumicrate’s Clockwork Angel: 10th Anniversary Edition)

Clockwork Prince (6 December 2012)

Will’s letter to his parents

Burning Bright: Jem’s meeting with Tessa from his viewpoint

Will’s love letter to Tessa (can also be read in Clockwork Princess)

An Offering of Moonlight: Jem’s Perspective on “Fierce Midnight”

Deleted scenes: The Whole of It (Will tells Jem about his curse), Tessa and Jem

Clockwork Princess (19 March 2013)

Cut scene: Will and Jem

‘Will’s love letter to Tessa’

Carstairs, Herondale and Lightwood family tree (1831-2007)

After the Bridge (Tessa & Jem with art by Cassandra Jean –> City of Heavenly Fire spoilers)

Will and Tessa comic from Cassandra Jean and Cassie

The Dark Artifices

Set before the books

Stars to Burn (Mark & Kieran, with art)

Lady Midnight (8 March 2016)

A Long Conversation (short story in some first editions of Lady Midnight, now an ebook)

Cut scene: Julian

Unedited beach scene

Deleted scene: Emma and Cameron

Deleted scene: Emma, the Blackthorns and the Ashdowns

Deleted scene: Emma and the Blackthorns

Deleted scene: Emma, Clary and Church

Lord of Shadows (23 May 2017)

Cottage scene (Emma & Julian, with art)

Our Waking Souls (canon online short story about Clary & Jace, with art)

Queen of Air and Darkness (4 December 2018)

Deleted prologue: TBA (you can read a part of it here)

Cut Blackstairs scene (unedited)

Deleted Jemma scene

A Love That Never Tires (short story in some first editions of Queen of Air and Darkness, sequel to A Long Conversation): TBA

The Eldest Curses

The Red Scrolls of Magic (9 April 2019)

Magnus’s letter to Alec (from City of Heavenly Fire, formerly exclusive content for Illumicrate + Good Choice Reading)

How Magnus met Catarina: TBA

Deleted snippet (back then the book titles were different)

The Lost Book of The White (1 September 2020)

Edited scene from beginning of the book

In Dream Begin: TBA

Simon’s graduation party (Waterstones exclusive, deleted scene): TBA

The Last Hours

Set before the books

Chain of Gold Extra Content (flash fiction)

The Devil Tavern

Days Past: Lucie and Cordelia

Days Past: Christopher

Cirenworth Hall

The City of Bones

Lucie and Ghosts

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 1

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 2

The Anniversary Party, Part 1

The Anniversary Party, Part 2

Chain of Gold (3 March 2020)

Deleted scene: Matthew

Wedding Invitation (Good Choice Reading exclusive content)

Fairy Tale of London: TBA. You can see artwork from the short story here.

Lucie’s letter to Cordelia (LitJoyCrate exclusive): TBA

Ragnor’s letter to Magnus (exclusive to Waterstones rune edition): TBA

The Whispering Room from James’s POV with art by Cassandra Jean

Chain of Iron (2 March 2021)

One Must Always Be Careful of Books: TBA

Fever (Waterstones exclusive) TBA

Matthew’s letter to James (LitJoyCrate exclusive): TBA

Deleted scene (Tessa and Lucie talk): TBA

Unidentified snippets

The bonus content is put under the book titles where you can find the extras in, e.g. The Act of Falling is set in City of Fallen Angels but you can find it in City of Lost Souls.

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Nothing to say, except that I've been obsessively thinking about this ever since I stumbled upon it.

Thank you for engaging in the mortifying ordeal of being known so that I may partake in the euphoric experience of knowing you.

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“It is so lonely to feel deeply about the world and be met with the complete failure of language to communicate it. Poetry gets us marginally (but importantly!) closer than rhetorical language, like how standing on a roof gets one a few feet closer to grabbing a star than standing in the dirt. It makes the loneliness of being here a little easier to bear.”

— Kaveh Akbar, “Galloping Towards Delight: A Conversation with Kaveh Akbar and Ilya Kaminsky”, published in Magma Issue 83, Solitude, Summer 2022 (via kitchen-light)

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All your fury is to hide a fragile heart.

-Ghassan Kanafani

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby

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i saw a quote that said “i feel like i’m constantly worrying about the next part of my life without realizing that i’m right in the middle of what i used to look forward to.” and i felt that.

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thinking of that one poem about grief that goes something like “at the end of the day, there is only you and your grief; reluctantly dancing, trying to avoid stepping on each other's toes, and occasionally failing… but when you go home and fall asleep, grief will gently shake you again and you’ll have no choice but to dance again.”

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I'm obsessed with the idea of summer, but unfortunately, the reality of it is a very different i.e. sweat and boredom and feeling lonely.

“Summer arrives in a strawberry, sweet, juicy. As long as you feel its flesh on your tongue you’re unaware how. One minute inches into the next. But how could you observe awareness anyway? Or, for that matter, a thought? It grows in you, not as a sensation. (Nor like a baby or tumor.) An experience that you can’t hold on to. Any more than to the smell of lilac. Though it soothes emptiness.”

— Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Asymmetry (2)”, The Nick of Time: Poems

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James Schuyler, “Up,” in Collected Poems

[elenaad18]

Hi! Since this is my first post, I thought I'd share a few things about me:

My name is Elena, I'm 15 and live in Spain. I consider myself a creative and cheerful person and a bit messy sometimes.

I love reading. My favorite genres are fantasy and romance. Some of my favourite books are ACOTAR, the TDA trilogy and Legend. My favourite authors are Sarah J. Maas, Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo and Marie Lu.

I also love listening to music, especially old school pop. Some of my favourite artists are Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Ariana Grande, but I also enjoy Britney Spears and Lady Gaga.

I enjoy watching movies and series, but I get tired of series really quick. I am also a huge fan of the MCU (Marvel Cinematographic Universe). Some of my favourite movies include The Breakfast Club and Black Panther.

Some random facts about me:

My favourite color is blue

I like rainy days at home

I love the royal core aesthetic

I find aesthetically pleasing things specially satisfying

I'd love to dedicate this account to books/bookish stuff, but maybe I'll post other things too.

You can find me on Goodreads, where I review books!

And that's it! I hope after this introduction you could get to know me a little better!