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Average rating4.2
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Ratings88
Average rating4.2
The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.
It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.
Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…
Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?
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I was thrilled when I saw the incredible cover to this book. I was so excited to return to the fictional realm of the Shadowhunters. I went back and forth between a Kindle library book, Libby audiobook, and my own expensive hardcover copy of this book until about 40% in. Then I had to up and put it I the donate pile. Junk. This book is completely ruined by trying to conform to a new liberal, sex-driven, beyond appropriate relationship status. It isn't just love triangles, more like pentagons, and not just a side homosexual or bisexual individual, but over the top fluid sexuality all. In the past, I have found Cassandra Clare to be a powerful storyteller but the plot is completely lost in this book through the murky sexual gunk.
3.5, maybe 4 stars
I'm going to sleep on this one before I fully review and rate.
Unfortunately, the only thing I want to say when I finished this book is finally.
I still have really warm memories about previous Cassandra Clare's series - The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. Even if I know, that if I read them now, I would not be impressed. But I still waited for that humour that was a big part in the previous books. Or for whatever else I liked.
Here all that waited for me were disastrous romantic geometry, plainly facepalm moments and annoying characters. The last but not the least, the novel was so long, like a never-ending nightmare.
Series
3 primary booksThe Dark Artifices is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Cassandra Clare, Manuela Carozzi, and Aurore Alcayde.
Series
1 released bookShadowhunter Chronicles is a 126-book series first released in 2007 with contributions by Cassandra Clare, José Luís Luna, and 35 others.
