Lady Midnight is the first book in the new trilogy, The Dark Artifices, by Cassandra Clare.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars!!
At
this point, I've read 30 of Cassandra Clare's books and novellas and all of
them are about Shadowhunters!
We’re
going to do this again because I wouldn’t want to spoil anyone albeit no one’s
really reading my blog. LOL. Cassie (Cassandra Clare) said that her series or
trilogy can be read independently of each other. Like you don’t really have to
read TMI or TID or TBC or TSA if you plan on reading Lady Midnight. BUT, I
highly suggest and recommend people to read all of it because there are
references in the books that you will appreciate more if you’ve read all of
them.
Let’s
begin with some non-spoilery
thoughts:
So
Lady Midnight takes place 5 years after the Dark War (happened in TMI) in Idris
and follows Emma Carstairs as our new protagonist along with all the Blackthorn
kids. Emma was out and about investigating the death of her parents in order
for her to find who is responsible for their death so she can revenge them.
That’s the basic plot of LM until the plot gets bigger that gives us a very
interesting and rich story Cassie has ever made.
I
don’t usually like Cassie's first book in a series not even with her series of
novellas but this one? I LOVE IT.
The
plot was carefully written and in such a way that readers will not figure it
out – which is always an amazing thing for me when authors can surprise me like
that. I appreciate the world building and how different LA Institute with other
institutes that we’ve known - and the view! By the beach! And of course, the
characters were written beautifully and when I say beautifully I don’t mean
perfect with no flaws but actually the opposite – the characters are flawed,
diverse, and each their own person and contribute uniquely in the entirety of
the story. When I met the Blackthorn kids in CoHF and knew what they’ve been
through and that they’ll have their own book series, I knew right there and
then that these kids will give me so many feels when I read LM/TDA. And yes,
they gave me too many feels. I can’t wait to get to know more about them. Their
story is really intriguing as well the tragedy or the “problematic” story of
their ancestors. The Blackthorn bloodline kind of always caught themselves in a
tragic/problematic situation maybe that’s why they have that family motto: Lex
malla, lex nulla (A bad law is no law).
But
as far as characters are concerned, it’s not just the Blackthorns that are interesting;
there are also new characters that we’ve only met here in LM. Some characters
from the previous books made an appearance as well.
Like
in all of Shadowhunters books, there will always be an element of love, blood (could mean family or death), betrayal and revenge.
I
guess that’s for the non-spoilery thoughts.
Clockwork
Princess and Lady Midnight are my favorite Shadowhunters books to date!
Now,
to the spoilery thoughts and
feels...
