Lady Midnight

Thank god, the book is still fantastic. There's a lesser sense of general angst once you already know everything, but it's still pretty angsty though, lmao. But in the best way. Like, the pining, OH, THE PINING! I love me some good pining.
Julian is such a ruthless bastard and I can't tell you how much I love it. Like, Jace is the fake badboy who tries to convince everyone he's bad and never succeeds, whereas Julian is the kind of person who could literally turn into the villain if he'd been dropped into the wrong world, you know what I mean? Like, he'd do anything for his family, like quite literally ANYTHING.
I adoooooooooore Emma and Christina's friendship, I would just die for the both of them, honestly, and the two of them together. Oh, the love. I love me some good girl friendship, I crave it, even, and Cassie just deliverrrrrrrrs!
Hands down the best of Clare's first books in a series. Not just for the writing, which is better with every series she does, but things like the overarching plot of the book, the setup for the trilogy as a whole, and its role as a first book in general; it is just an immense amount of fun and feelings.
Also, soft boy Mark Blackthorn is literally everything.