City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (audio)
Unabridged book on 11 compact discs, 13 hours. Narrated by Natalie Moore. Simon & Schuster Audio, March, 2008.
In City of Bones, Clary not only finds out that her whole life has been a lie, but that her father is Valentine, the psychotic mastermind, who nearly toppled the Clave once before, and that Jace is her brother. In City of Ashes, Clary wishes things could get back to normal, but her mom's still in that coma, Luke is running himself ragged and her relationship with Simon is changing. Oh, and she's avoiding Jace like the plague - until she receives a text from Isabel that Jace is in trouble. And young Downworlders are being murdered. Though it's made to look as if the murders were committed by vampires, Clary and her crew know otherwise. They just don't know why. Everything in Clary's life is changing.
As in City of Bones, there's plenty of action and intrigue and shifting alliances. Pieces of the puzzle begin dropping into place, but more questions emerge. This audio book features a different narrator. It has been a couple of hundred books since I read City of Bones with my ears, so my memory is a bit hazy. I won't let another couple of hundred books get between City of Ashes and City of Glass.