


Clare’s incredible writing style intertwined with the captivating story make for this beautiful book. Even when there was not battle happening, there was still some sort of captivating drama going on, making it hard to put the book down. “Lady Midnight” did not drop off and become boring at all. With a 668-page book, it’s expected to have some boring parts. And if you think that a harsh law will keep two people from falling in love, then you are mistaken. While fighting the battle of demonic murders, Emma and Julian fight the war in their hearts, trying to decide whether or not to follow their hearts or the law. To complicate things more, Emma and Julian, who have been best friends since birth, begin in fall in love, something forbidden by law between parabatai. Having to work behind the Clave, the Shadowhunter government, Emma, Julian, and the rest of the Shadowhunters at the Institute must find out who is committing the murders while staying under the radar of the Clave.

The faeries want revenge for the deaths of their kind, and need the Shadowhunters to do so, which goes against Shadowhunter law. But Julian’s brother Mark, who was captured by the faeries five years ago, has been returned as a bargaining chip by the faeries. Hidden behind their runes and glamours, Shadowhunters, or Nephilim, are part angel-part human warriors who protect humans, referred to as mundanes, from the dangers of demons and monsters.Ĭlare takes us to the Los Angeles Institute, where Emma Carstairs and her best friend, or parabatai, Julian Blackthorn are investigating what they believe to be demonic murders, but spirals into something much worse as Emma becomes convinced the humans and faeries who have been killed were killed by the same person who murdered her parents five years earlier. “Lady Midnight” takes us to Los Angeles in 2012, five years after the end of the best-selling series, ‘The Mortal Instruments,” where the latest Shadowhunter story lies.

8, fans have not stopped talking about the book and are still in emotional turmoil after reading it. It stays right with or better than the books that precede it. With her third book series in the Shadowhunter world, “The Dark Artifices: Lady Midnight,” doesn’t fall off like most sequels. Although, any Cassandra Clare book has this effect on the readers. Heart-pounding, tears spilling down cheeks and screaming at the book should be expected when reading “Lady Midnight.” by Cassandra Clare. 8, following the story of Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn who are trying to find out the reason for the increase in demonic murders in Los Angeles. “Lady Midnight,” the first book in Cassandra Clare’s new trilogy “The Dark Artifices,” leaves fans thrilled with the exceptional sequel to the beloved “Mortal Instruments” series.
