The Dark Artifices #2 (HELP ME!!)

Lord of Shadows

by Cassandra Clare

WARNING:-IF YOU HAVEN'T READ LADY MIDNIGHT THEN DON'T GO AHEAD I'LL KNOW IF YOU DID!

Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?

A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love.

Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides?

Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated to registering Downworlders and “unsuitable” Nephilim. They’ll do anything in their power to expose Julian’s secrets and take the Los Angeles Institute for their own.

When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat rises in the form of the Lord of Shadows—the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume. As dangers close in, Julian devises a risky scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will bring with it a reckoning of blood that could have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear.

MY RATING:-🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Torture this is the word that describes this book torture on me my soul my heart my brain everything this book makes me feel so empty and so full at the same time i can't i just can't people I HONESTLY HATE THIS BOOK SO MUCH THAT I LOVE IT.Cassandra you wonderful torturous creature how could you do this to me?? HOW??

Let me warn you this book is really amazing like its amazingness goes out of the roof and soars so high that you can't even catch it but it leaves you hollow empty and now i get it Cassandra described the ending brutal and full of blood and how it was full of blood how it was I can already feel the book hangover coming and getting its grips over me.

BUT,lets start up with the important part shall we folks??

The thing is I can see Cassandra growing so much in this book i can honestly see her growth from City of bones to this gorgeous beauty and the plot was executed so brilliantly just so so brilliantly that you can see the end you can almost guess it what would happen and this book was so brilliant the character development was so great especially of Mark,Cristina,Emma and Julian i mean they went through so much that they've grown so much and blood or ichor to be honest was so much in this book i mean I'm a creature who loves blood and violence not for myself and not for my babies mind you Cassandra which you didn't mind and that's why I hate you but the point is this book has so much epic battle scenes even at the start the fight with that sea demon was so great and the battle scenes were written so perfectly that you could imagine everything and that's what i loved most about this book i could imagine everything in this book so perfectly just Cassie why are so brilliant and horrible at the same time????

Okay now coming to our precious snowflake characters who Cassie writes so brilliantly and then does something to them that rips my heart into teeny tiny pieces and leaves it for the vultures to feast on but yeah characters!

1)Julian:-omg he is so brilliant in this book just so clever and so brilliant and so Julian like i can't speak he is such a nice brother just so nice I love him and Cassie you better listen to me if you did anything to him anything I'm not going to spare you trust me on that I've a rusty knife just for authors like you.DO YOU HEAR ME?

2)Emma:-Emma is Emma she is so sassy and just so fun I honestly want to be friends with her and i love her and her Badassness(that's a real word don't even say anything) was so much in this book like the way she fights holy crap people its brilliant its freakin' brilliant.

Jemma:-i don't even know what happened to my ship I mean its fate is not of titanic yet but at a point they were together and then now i don't know its just this cinnamon roll relationship is looking like the cinnamon roll that i had when a rat ate it don't even ask me.

3)Ty:-Ty is such a cupcake i love him so much he is just so sweet and i don't even know what will happen to him now after the ending he would be so devastated just like me and my poor bleeding heart but at least he'll have Kit on the other hand I and my dear reader heart would only have chocolates and my dear loveable couch to give me company so forgive me while I choke on my tears and die.

4)Kit:-he is a true herondale and you get me right true herondales=my reader heart having a crush.although i don't have a crush on him.yet.because he and ty are too good for each other

#cinnamon roll

5)Dru:-I don't even know much about her she doesn't come that much in the book but she loves horror movies and that makes me like her instantly because i love horror movies solely because i love laughing at the idiots in the movies and all the cliches like "I'm totally alone in the house lets turn all the lights off and when some sound comes lets just check it out without taking any knife with myself and Die"or "I'm not completely alone in a haunted house because i have a boyfriend and we are too busy making out to even actually hear the sound of someone coming to kill us in other words LETS DIE"and don't even make me start on the shower ghosts basically these actors are just volunteering for death and i'm thinking why weren't you in hunger games?

6)Tavvy :-he is just so cute in my mind i love him this little tiny piece adorbs man!

7)Cristina;-there was a lot of character development in her and she is really sweet and kind and she knows a lot about fairies so she is going to be indispensable in the last book i have a feeling about it.

8)Mark:-there's a lot of character development in him too basically our little feral creature Mark is not that much of feral creature in this book and also I don't know whom to ship him with so tell from where to get my matchmaking skills fixed.

9)Diana:-we learn a lot about her in this book and about her past and why she is so secretive and also she meets someone and just cinnamon roll do you get me?

**Spoiler(sort of)***10)Livvy;- I'm not crying there's just something in my eyes *sobs uncontrollably* I just thought livvy kit and ty would make the perfect trio and now its never going to happen.

In addition to them there were a lot of characters which I'm not going to talk about because it would take a whole new blog and like I said i couldn't keep up with this one also we had  a lot of cameos in this book and alec and magnus had quite a role to play and clary I'm not saying anything i'm just going to make a new post full of spoilers(hopefully)

let me just sum it all up okay?*takes a deep breath* here it goes

Centurion sucks,cohort sucks,Zara sucks (let me kill you___),Perfect Diego sucks,Annabel i'm going to kill you,jemma i don't even know what to say just please be together or i'll choke on my own tears and die,mark,cristina and kieran confused as hell,in addition to all of this if you read this book the only thought you'll have is help me for 13 hours and counting+more chocolates(my supplies are depleting damn these books!how am i supposed to survive zombie apocalypse now?)

just this trilogy is going towards something mind blowing and i can't wait to read the last book which is going to come in 2019 so yeah let me dig a grave for myself so that i could die in there but we'll have last hours atleast that's something i feel that this is Cassie's best work just this book made me cry laugh it made me feel so much and even though it broke me i wouldn't trade it for anything.

All in all this was a great sequel better than lady midnight which is to say its a concoction of mind blowing amazingness with a lot of hearbreak but its worth it!

BOOK QUOTES:-

“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.” 

“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.” 

“When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them.”  

“The bad things can't matter more than the good things” 

“He grinned, and the grin changed his face completely. Ty when he was still and expressionless had an intensity that fascinated Kit; when he was smiling, he was extraordinary.”  

“There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone... they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of its soul.”  

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Bye for now!😊