Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3)
Cassandra Clare
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Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3)
Cassandra Clare
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 #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling 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.
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this is without a doubt a three star book because cc doesn't know how to write books that aren't overly long with unnecessary scenes that essentially detract from the plot BUT i'm rating it four stars for kit/ty and mark/kieran/cristina
0At this point, I feel like Cassandra Clare could have diverged from her typical formula for shadow hunter romance. Book one-things heat up. Book two-there’s an issue why they can’t be together. Book three-issue resolves. This is the third series that I’ve read in this world, and I found myself skipping paragraphs to make the book end faster. It was enjoyable, but it wasn’t completely fresh since it followed the same pattern of TMI and TID.
Another issue I had was that there should have been a significant time jump when the main characters left Thule, not just a few seconds. When they were watching Thule in the portal 5 years passed very quickly relative to Earth time.
Now for the positive: the writing is beautiful, there are some interesting vocabulary words to describe scenes, and there are plenty of great characters that were dimensional. You definitely are taken on a journey thru the series, and a lot of unexpected things happen.
Overall, QOAAD was a good finisher for the LA branch of Shadow Hunters, and I did enjoy the cliffhanger at the end.
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