We also have young Tavvy, Drusilla, teenage twins Ty and Livvy, and the return of Mark Blackthorn from the Wild Hunt. It is forbidden to fall in love with one’s own parabatai, though, the reason for which is explained at the end of the novel. Emma is able to live with Julian and his family at the Los Angeles Institute, but only because they are parabatai, bonded together by a sacred ritual to be stronger for and with each other. Lady Midnight has many characters that are kind of hard to keep track of, but the main two are Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn, who readers have met five years previously in the events of City of Heavenly Fire. There were very early hints that a forbidden romance would evolve between the parabatai, but other than that, it felt like the overall arch of the story-investigating the murder of Emma’s parents and their connection to recent murders-took awhile to become interesting. Unfortunately, I was somewhat disappointed at the rather slow start of the novel. Her Shadowhunters novels are all phenomenal, so of course I had very high expectations of Lady Midnight, the first of the Dark Artifices trilogy. Cassandra Clare is by far my favorite young adult writer.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |