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The Shadowhunter Chronicles
Classics Reimagined in the World of the Shadowhunters
This exclusive limited-edition chapbook is an illustrated, collaborative project by Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean that involves pairing characters of the Shadowhunter world to retell classic fairy tales through illustrations.
Original description for Classics Reimagined as follows:
"Cassandra Jean's beautiful illustrations have become an iconic part of the Shadowhunter world. In this book, we combine beloved characters from the Shadowhunter Chronicles with folk and fairy tales that both of us grew up reading. I adore these mash-ups and I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do!
XOXO,
Cassandra Clare."
Original description for Classics Reimagined as follows:
"Cassandra Jean's beautiful illustrations have become an iconic part of the Shadowhunter world. In this book, we combine beloved characters from the Shadowhunter Chronicles with folk and fairy tales that both of us grew up reading. I adore these mash-ups and I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do!
XOXO,
Cassandra Clare."
48 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2018
1601 people want to read
About the author
Cassandra Clare
164 books278k followersCassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.
Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.
Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.
City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.
Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).
After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.
Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.
City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.
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March 26, 2020
I loved this little collection of reimagined fairy tales! It was interesting to see a modern spin on them and put some of my favorite characters in the roles of classic story book characters!
June 18, 2020
Acaso esto es una de las cosas más bonitas que vi en mi vida??? Las ilustraciones de C. Jean nunca decepcionan
July 12, 2024
This review may contain SPOILERS!
I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I really enjoyed the fact that Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean collaborated to curate this edition of a "fairytale retelling"-esque book. Essentially what this is, is a short novella-alike collection of character art, with a mixture of Shadowhunter characters, drawn in and as classical fairytale characters. I was a bit disappointed that these weren't fully fledged tales, but rather small quotes with a character art of the respective fairytale and the characters that matched the fairytale according to Cassie. It is a nice edition as a Shadowhunter-fan, such as myself, but essentially this gives little written content, and is more of a collectors addition or piece in my opinion. I still loved the artwork and the thoughts behind the reasoning of who to pick for which fairytale ... so that was brilliant!
3.5/5 stars
I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I really enjoyed the fact that Cassandra Clare and Cassandra Jean collaborated to curate this edition of a "fairytale retelling"-esque book. Essentially what this is, is a short novella-alike collection of character art, with a mixture of Shadowhunter characters, drawn in and as classical fairytale characters. I was a bit disappointed that these weren't fully fledged tales, but rather small quotes with a character art of the respective fairytale and the characters that matched the fairytale according to Cassie. It is a nice edition as a Shadowhunter-fan, such as myself, but essentially this gives little written content, and is more of a collectors addition or piece in my opinion. I still loved the artwork and the thoughts behind the reasoning of who to pick for which fairytale ... so that was brilliant!
3.5/5 stars
October 29, 2021
I'll be honest, this book wasn't quite what I was expecting.
I thought we would be receiving full story/excerpts of the reimaginings, instead it's just a line or two about the characters in that setting—a caption, their names and the story they're set in—but the art is definitely BEYOND gorgeous. 😍 I love Cassandra Jean's style so it's nice to have as a collectible.
Overall, it was touching and sweet, although I wish it had just the tad bit more substance in writing.
I thought we would be receiving full story/excerpts of the reimaginings, instead it's just a line or two about the characters in that setting—a caption, their names and the story they're set in—but the art is definitely BEYOND gorgeous. 😍 I love Cassandra Jean's style so it's nice to have as a collectible.
Overall, it was touching and sweet, although I wish it had just the tad bit more substance in writing.
August 23, 2021
it literally took about 2 minutes to read but it was so fun and the illustrations in this are the coolest thing ever haha
July 11, 2024
and all the stories are beautiful ♡
January 9, 2022
Fun take with the Shadowhunter characters and comparing them to fairytales. Gorgeous pictures as well.
October 24, 2021
This tales in book format arrived yesterday thanks to the store of Hebel Design and I am in love.
Buy this book in hardback and with great quality, is super worthy for any Shadowhunters fan!
My favs, obviously, Wessa, Clace and Jordelia! My fav couples ever!
P.D: no one draws better the Shadowhunters characters as Cassandra Jean does! ♥️
Buy this book in hardback and with great quality, is super worthy for any Shadowhunters fan!
My favs, obviously, Wessa, Clace and Jordelia! My fav couples ever!
P.D: no one draws better the Shadowhunters characters as Cassandra Jean does! ♥️
February 8, 2022
Lovely images and quotes! They are perfect and the reimagined stories have the best characters chosen!
March 20, 2023
Este libro tiene 48 páginas y consiste en una colección de bellas ilustraciones hechas por Cassandra Jean acompañadas de un pequeño párrafo escrito por Cassandra Clare, donde varios de los personajes de Cazadores de Sombras, protagonizan conocidos cuentos de hadas.
Por ejemplo: Will y Tessa son el Príncipe y Cenicienta. Emma es la valiente guerrera que con su beso despertará a Julian en una reinterpretación de La bella durmiente, Simon e Isabelle protagonizan El Príncipe Rana, etc.
Es un libro que se lee en un máximo de 5 minutos y constituye un hermoso objeto de colección para los fans de Cazadores de Sombras.
Por ejemplo: Will y Tessa son el Príncipe y Cenicienta. Emma es la valiente guerrera que con su beso despertará a Julian en una reinterpretación de La bella durmiente, Simon e Isabelle protagonizan El Príncipe Rana, etc.
Es un libro que se lee en un máximo de 5 minutos y constituye un hermoso objeto de colección para los fans de Cazadores de Sombras.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 25, 2021
i was incredibly excited when i heard about this book and preordered it immediately, but i was a bit disappointed with the final product. the illustrations were beautiful, and it is a nice collectors item, but there was very little actually storytelling, only brief story snippets reworked into the shadowhunter world. i think it would have been much better had we gotten full fairytales, or maybe even just a page of the story rather than a single sentence.
October 27, 2021
really cute book with lovely illustrations.
just expected a little more than one sentence for each story ://
just expected a little more than one sentence for each story ://
October 30, 2021
5/5 estrellas
Solo si sos fan de la saga lo vas a querer tener y disfrutar. Los dibujos de Cassandra Jean nunca decepcionan.
Solo si sos fan de la saga lo vas a querer tener y disfrutar. Los dibujos de Cassandra Jean nunca decepcionan.
October 31, 2021
I loved this! Even though it was short I loved what fairy tales each ship was based off of. And the art work was beautiful! Happy to have this in my Shadowhunter collection 😍
November 1, 2021
Such beautiful artwork! Really a musthave
December 19, 2021
Gosh this drawings are sooo beautiful and calmed down my beating heart that craves more books from this woman 😍😍
August 1, 2023
It’s always a pleasure to get back into this and admire the various ships and other characters💕
December 21, 2025
about to frame these around the house like they’re my own family members
November 27, 2021
5*
What can I say, I waited years to finally have this book in my hands...
What can I say, I waited years to finally have this book in my hands...
December 31, 2021
My heart is happy, but what else would you have expected
October 16, 2022
Muy bonito.
Want to read
February 18, 2023Buy this for me and I'll marry you
June 24, 2023
Beautiful illustrations by Cassandra Jean and writing by Cassandra Clare as always. It is a quick and fun read of the reinterpretation of fairytales . I recommend this to everyone.
July 12, 2024
very very short read, but i LOVED the illustrations in this so much. wish we had more than little snippets of fairytales but it was still a great addition to the shadowhunter saga :'')
July 25, 2024
Sooo beautiful🥰
I wish I had the physical version🥲😭😭😭😭
I wish I had the physical version🥲😭😭😭😭
August 26, 2025
wessa en la portada pq son su moneymakers
January 26, 2026
it was cute
February 27, 2023
This was so cute!
October 20, 2021
Honestly one of the coolest things I've read. It's a super short read with each character taking on the role of a fairy tale or folk tale. Tessa and Will are in the story of "Cinderella," Clary and Jace are in "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," and Emma and Julian are in "Sleeping Beauty". An assortment of other characters from the Shadowhunter chronicles are in here too. Kit and Ty, Alec and Magnus, and more. I personally loved this because I love both fairy tales and the Shadowhunter chronicles. It's an amazing crossover of different stories. My copy is the preorder paperback edition and it's by far one of my favorite Shadowhunter books. ^_^
December 5, 2021
Listen, the art in this is gorgeous as always with Cassandra Jean's work. It also looks great on my shelf with the rest of the Shadowhunter books.
But I will admit that I was somewhat disappointed. When I found out about the upcoming release of this work, I thought I was gonna get the actual fairytales but changed to add the Shadowhunters' characters. Instead what I got, were some (brilliant) pictures and one to max. two sentences, accompanying each page.
It IS beautiful, but I am a tad sad because this isn't what I had imagined at all.
But I will admit that I was somewhat disappointed. When I found out about the upcoming release of this work, I thought I was gonna get the actual fairytales but changed to add the Shadowhunters' characters. Instead what I got, were some (brilliant) pictures and one to max. two sentences, accompanying each page.
It IS beautiful, but I am a tad sad because this isn't what I had imagined at all.
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