Review: Lady Midnight

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Month Read In: February 2022

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Methodology: Audiobook read by Morena Baccarin, via Library on Libby

Genre- Fantasy: Urban, Young Adult

CAWPILE: 5 Stars

Someone I know who read this series didn't like Emma much at all, but couldn't recall for sure why she didn't care for her. She did mention that she felt Emma's choices were questionable. I was only a quarter of the way through at that point and didn't see what she was talking about. As I waited for these questionable behaviors and choices, things that put her outside what a Shadowhunter "should" be, I never came across anything. Julian on the other hand. Julian's way or the highway? Yikes.

So it's been 5 years since the Dark War and the end of The Mortal Instruments. This arc is lightyears away from Jace and Clary and Alec and Isabelle and Simon and Magnus. Even further away from Will and Jem and Tessa. What I loved about this one is that we didn't need a lot of introduction to the world. If someone is picking up The Dark Artifices, chances are quite high that they've already read The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices and have read the installments of The Eldest Curses. This meant that Clare (and her guest co-authors now) do not need to spend so much time on cluing us into the ways in which magic works. They don't need to spend so much time explaining the situation between the races and how things in the Shadow world can exist right alongside our own Mundane world. We get focus on the story in this subseries of The Shadowhunter Chronicles.

After enjoying The Infernal Devices and spending time in England and plenty of time in New York City and Alicante via The Mortal Instruments, this installment brings us to an immersion of the Los Angeles Institute. It definitely has a different feel than New York and London. Each institute is a character of its own. As for plot, I definitely can see why Emma would be so hell bent on finding out what happened to her parents. They didn't die in the Dark War, but everyone gaslit the f out of her into believing they were the first victims. She didn't believe them. Her persistence paid off. As an adoptee, and no one in my life who told me that they knew the truth, of course I can understand where she's coming from. She wants the truth and except for the Blackthornes and Cristina, she doesn't care who she hurts in the process. I can relate.

Second 5 star rating of the year.

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