Author - Cassandra Clare
Series - The Dark Artifices #1
Pub Date - 8th March 2016
ISBN - 9781471116612
Genre - YA > Urban Fantasy
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US
This is part one and there will be no spoilers in this part, part 2 will be up before this one so if you are scrolling down this is the one you read 1st.
Emma Carstairs doesn't believe Sebastian Morganstern killed her parents and when Fey bodies start turning up with the same marks as her parents had she knows she was right, Emma, Cristina and the Blackthorns must find out who is doing the killings in 3 weeks otherwise they will never see Mark again. But with a secret organisation that is connected to the murders The L.A Institute must work out how everything connects together before its too late and one of their own is murdered....
I highly suggest you read Tales From The Shadowhunter Academy before reading this book so many more things will make sense, i promise.
OK let me start of by saying this is probably the best first book in a Shadowhunter Series and i loved it i finished it at 1 am and i screamed very loudly at 12:30 am and woke my family up, so many twists and turns and so many things that we need answers for, Now i was just on tumblr and i saw something that has actually quite annoyed me and that is that, the next book isn't being released until April 2017 and Chain of Gold (The first book in the Last Hours trilogy) isn't going to be released until after that so we have another two years before we get to see Will as a dad.
It is one of those books that you cant put down it hooks you in on every page and keeps you reading and reading till its all finished. The characters were different from TMI but then again at the same time they were very similar, but Gender bent compared to TMI where the boy is arty and the girl is the best shadowhunter. I actually enjoy seeing the parallels i know a lot of people don't and that's OK, but personally i do and the mentions of past characters if you saw my instagram i took a picture of one of these examples and i just fangirled so hard.
The story was one we haven't heard before in this series its Necromancy , we have had Automatons and Daemon Blood infected Villains, i am almost certain that necromancy have never even been mentioned before in this series. The characters will feel a sense of Deja Vu with them but i loved it and i always will, new characters (ones we haven't seen before) were actually so good and brought so much like Cristina and Kit who we will be seeing more of hopefully in the next book, I also have to admit i felt it was a little long like it felt like it was just about to be solved but there was still 200 pages left so i got pretty annoyed that it seemed never ending at times, but then there were times i wanted this book to be 1000 pages long so it wouldn't end for a while more.
Emma is such a strong character and like all of the Carstairs we have met so far is incredibly loyal and a phenomenal fighter. Julian is one of the best male characters in these chronicles he is talented, smart, funny and awkward. His relationship with his Parabatai is one of the story lines that definitely intrigued me with the law and why the law is in place, as well. This had so many story lines in this book from the murders to Uncle Arthur's illness to all of the relationships it is one big crazy book that was pretty much perfection.
Also if you wanted to see more of Tessa and Jem then you get your wish because they make many appearances and also Clary, Jace, Magnus, Alec and so many more characters that we have grown to love in the past 9 years.
This book was one of the best first books in a series i have read in a very long time it was so good to immerse myself in this world again and i cannot wait to write the spoiler review of this book because there is so much to talk about if you haven't read this book i highly suggest you do it has a different feeling than her last series and it has a lot of potential for the coming books.
PART 2 SPOILERS HERE - *#*
Until Next Time
Happy Reading
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