Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy | |
Authors: | Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Robin Wasserman |
Cover Artist: | Cliff Nielsen |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Pub Date: | February 17 – November 17, 2015 (print edition November 15, 2016) |
Pages: | 655 |
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy or simply called Shadowhunter Academy is a series of connected novellas featuring the character of Simon Lewis from Cassandra Clare's best-selling The Mortal Instruments series. It consists of ten novellas written by Cassandra Clare in collaboration with other authors that were published online on a monthly basis. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy was released in print on November 15, 2016.
Simon Lewis, who was a mundane in City of Bones, then a vampire from the middle of City of Ashes until almost the end of City of Heavenly Fire has been stripped of his memories by a greater demon in the final volume of The Mortal Instruments. In order to retrieve his memories, he decides to become a Shadowhunter, but he must first train at the Shadowhunter Academy.
The collection contains characters from The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices and reveals the history of some famous Shadowhunters like Michael Wayland, Stephen Herondale and Robert Lightwood. Simon learns about the history of Shadowhunters through guest lecturers like Jace Herondale, Tessa Gray and Catarina Loss.[14]