Title: Queen of Air and Darkness Pdf The Dark Artifices, Book 3
Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare's Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the number-one New York Times and USA Today best-selling the Dark Artifices trilogy. Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel.
What if damnation is the price of true love?
Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks.
Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the parabatai curse destroys them and everyone they love.
A whole lot of book Some spoilers ahead. Wish I could do half stars, as I'd give this 3.5.I will admit that this was not my favorite book in the series. Some romantic elements felt quite rushed, and I'll probably have to reread the first two books to see if I missed some subtle clues involving a certain love triangle, but I wasn't mad at the resolution, even if it was so drawn out. They're happy! They're not! They cannot be together! They can be together! No problems or side eyes at all? While I would love to believe people are open and understanding, the entire plot of this book is how people aren't open and understanding, so I found their Happy Ever After a little too easy. I certainly appreciated the unique and quite progressive way the characters' relationship was settled instead of using the tired tropes of most love triangles, but I still felt dissatisfied with it overall.To name a book after a character sets a certain expectation. That expectation is that said character will be involved in the story in some important way. That was not the case with this book. I was also a little lost on her motivation. Her mood swings and odd behavior were never addressed, which I would have liked. Was it the resurrection? Was it the torture? Where did her book go? Why did the fey name her so? Why why why and no answers. Maybe I read too fast and missed something.Overall, I liked it, but I found it frustrating and random in more than a few places. I would have appreciated a more satisfying ending, and not just the set up for another series. I also found the idea of everyone just giving up their ancestral home a bit too easy. Maybe that's the best description...After all the strife, all the problems got little bows of perfect endings and very little conflict. The fate of the cohort was especially ludicrous, and yet another "loose end" I assume will be picked up in the next series or so.Much more sexytime in this book, that's for sure.I liked the continuation of more character POVs, but it did make the book the tome it is.I will continue to read Clare's books. The humor was much more prevalent in this book, and Aline was the queen of the snark and I need more of her. I started reading Clare because of the Very Secret Diaries and I hope more of the books will include her humor.Cassandra Clare has sold her soul to the money machine Cassandra Clare is a gifted writer and has created a fun universe with her shadowhunters series. I cannot fault her writing skills or story telling ability.In this final book, there is a good payoff for previous readers with characters from the earlier series playing seminal roles. However, it seems to come at a sacrifice of newer characters who were created for the dark artifices series. For example, the titular Lady of Air and Darkness is hardly featured.A number of the new characters are heavily built up as important then sidelined and hastily packed away, probably in the hopes of generating enough interest to score another 3-book deal with the publishers. Or perhaps the writer wrote herself into a hole and couldn't be bothered to resolve their storylines.I'm really irritated that I waited almost 2 years for this.Disappointing and Disjointed Loving these characters and this world SO much, I have to say I was highly disappointed! Too many characters, too many moving plots...For all her presence and power potential Annabel was utterly wasted as a character! Felt like the complete second half of the book was ripped from Buffy the Vampire and so was not original and disappointing! The ending utterly maddening and the Epilouge worse! Spent so much time setting up characters Dru, Ty, Kit, Ash, for the final series that the problems in this series were resolved unrealistically and cheapened... I LOVED every story in the Ghosts of the Shadowmarket so I will give those characters another chance...
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