Classics Reimagined in the World of the Shadowhunters

The Shadowhunter Chronicles

by Cassandra Clare, Cassandra Jean (Illustrator)

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."

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Graphic Novels, Retellings, Fiction, Paranormal

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2018

About the author

Cassandra 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.

Reviews

[Autumn Miller ~ autumnbookreads]

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!

[Luly]

Acaso esto es una de las cosas más bonitas que vi en mi vida??? Las ilustraciones de C. Jean nunca decepcionan

[Luzie]

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

[Ana]

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.

[curtis :)]

it literally took about 2 minutes to read but it was so fun and the illustrations in this are the coolest thing ever haha

[ampère]

and all the stories are beautiful ♡

[Lindsey]

Fun take with the Shadowhunter characters and comparing them to fairytales. Gorgeous pictures as well.

[Wickedrosesandbooks]

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! ♥️

[Janessa Paun]

All of the art in this short book was so incredible, and I loved how much the fairy tales fit these Shadowhunter characters, especially Will and Jem as Brothers Grimm.

[Alexia Jackson]

Lovely images and quotes! They are perfect and the reimagined stories have the best characters chosen!

[Zully Luly]

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.

[Armin]

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.

[✨Polina]

really cute book with lovely illustrations.
just expected a little more than one sentence for each story ://

[Ayelen Barbara]

5/5 estrellas

Solo si sos fan de la saga lo vas a querer tener y disfrutar. Los dibujos de Cassandra Jean nunca decepcionan.

[Mandi]

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 😍

[Suzanne]

Such beautiful artwork! Really a musthave

[Sofi Mascaró]

Gosh this drawings are sooo beautiful and calmed down my beating heart that craves more books from this woman 😍😍

[Gauri]

It’s always a pleasure to get back into this and admire the various ships and other characters💕

[honey]

about to frame these around the house like they’re my own family members

[Paula]

5*

What can I say, I waited years to finally have this book in my hands...

[Sadie]

My heart is happy, but what else would you have expected

[Amy14]

Muy bonito.

[h i n d]

Buy this for me and I'll marry you

[Logan]

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.

[jess]

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 :'')

[Andrea]

Sooo beautiful🥰
I wish I had the physical version🥲😭😭😭😭

[Sofi Herongray]

wessa en la portada pq son su moneymakers

[Isabell Einarsson Nygårds]

it was cute

[暁名]

Libro bonito y rápido de leer, no se le puede pedir más

[kailey📚✨💕]

Such a fun and creative idea. This style of art is just so iconic to the Shadowhunter world