The Last Stand of the New York Institute

Written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by Jamie Bamber

In the time of the Uprising, Valentine’s Circle goes after Downworlders in New York...and the Shadowhunters of the Institute must decide whether to join him, or fight with Magnus and his kind. The story introduces Magnus to beloved characters like Clary's mother Jocelyn and her surrogate father Luke. And it is not long before Jocelyn seeks Magnus out to help her protect Clary...by taking away her ability to see the Shadowhunter world.

The tenth story in a new series of ten e-only short stories about fan-favorite Magnus Bane, who features prominently in The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, The Last Stand of the New York Institute is by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Jan 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781442365230

Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass. City of Bones was a Locus Award finalist for Best First Novel and an ALA Teens' Top Ten winner. She is also the author of the upcoming YA fantasy trilogy The Infernal Devices. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her boyfriend and two cats.

Reviews for The Last Stand of the New York Institute

[wanderlustlover_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This one was good but not quite as good as the one I read before it. I did love getting to see more of Tess and Clary's mother. I did love getting to see more of Valetine's Circle in action -- both those who knew what they were doing and delighted in it, and those were disgusted with realizing just exactly what they'd fallen in to.

I like the idea Tess was the one to decide about Clary, but I also feel like that is major revisionist history at work, when it was never part of the original Magnus telling. And I'm also a little sad it didn't go any further past the point it ended at a little too safely.

[faith_murri · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Better than most of them, and I liked that we got to see the Circle pre-Uprising.