Queen of Air and Darkness - Cassandra Clare

Queen of Air and Darkness

By Cassandra Clare

  • Release Date: 2018-12-04
  • Genre: Fantasy for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
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Description

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 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. Their society now 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 there 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 the Shadowhunters before a deadly curse destroys them and everyone they love.

Reviews

  • Book is a great book. But can’t read

    1
    By Hayhay__!!
    Bought this online since I forgot my hard copy t home while I was on the road. And I pay $12 for them to only let me read 102 pages. Well since I’m on chapter 16 that was useless to me. Thanks for heart break:)

  • Great book

    5
    By nickimb96
    Emma and Julian definitely my favorite characters in the series

  • Okay

    4
    By Tam4Eva
    So, I think my favorite part of this book is the way CC resolved all the other minor plot points and tied of the minor characters. As for Emma and Julian, I had wondered how they were going to end up together, it’s just the way it happened didn’t feel... right. But I liked how they ended it. Some things to noted: 1: Clary and Jace are getting married 2: Kieran, Mark, and Cristina are a threesome. Which is super weird. 3: Ash has some good in him, he’s just under the influence of Bad Jace 4: Ash is fascinated by the picture of Dru he finds. I wonder if that will come into play later. 5: Bad Jace is at large, and he wants Clary. #whatelseisnewwithTMI? 6: Ty and Kit are in love, and aren’t doing anything about it 7: Ty and Livvy are tied to each other. Is this good or bad? We might never know. 8: CC will most likely write another series involving the cliffhanger at the end of QAD(this book) after she finishes the lost hours. 9: I think that Tessa and Jem’s kid will be really special 10: the next present time book will not come out for a while because CC’s still writing the last hours Anyway, that’s all. Ave atque vale

  • One of the best in the series

    5
    By Brotherwm
    I loved the world of faerie opened in this volume. But it was love in many forms that shone throughout and moved me most.

  • Loved it!

    5
    By Kdw14368
    Really enjoyed this series. Emma and Julian might be my favorite characters now. And so awesome to include some of the original series shadowhunters!

  • Too much

    4
    By Hopeful4More
    I love CC’s books. I’ve read them all but this one isn’t exactly a favorite. It’s a good story, however it’s just too much. Too many characters; good and bad. Too many characters means too much story telling for each other this characters. You are thrown all over the place while trying to hear the story behind each and every person in the book. To be honest, I think it would have been a lot better if some of the people remained added characters and not main parts of the story. Or having the book divided into a separate one. I happy with 4-7 people, but 10-12 is a little too much for me. Maybe you’ll enjoy the vast cast. Again not a bad book. A good story added into the shadowhunter world. Yet sometimes a little less is a little better.

  • Amazing

    5
    By Og_MudBoNE
    Amazing and capturing stories that I love so much

  • Love CC, but...

    3
    By magnus4life
    I have read all of the Shadowhunter Novels and loved them, but this one is definitely the worst; which says a lot considering the rest of CC’s books are strokes of pure genius. There were lots of character plots that took away from what had potential to be a good story. The story line itself is honestly hard to follow and the use of Annabel was minimal. I did like seeing how things could have been after the Mortal War though. That is primarily what gives this book the 3 stars. The Cristina, Kieran, and Mark thing had me weirded out to level 10.5, not to mention I didn’t find myself rooting for Emma and Julian like I had been at the beginning of the series. Overall if you have read the other Dark Artifacts Novels and want to finish the series you should, but don’t hold this book to as high a standard as the others because in the end it will disappoint. Shadowhunter fans know that I am not hating on CC at all because I love her and her writing a lot I just think this project was a small hiccup.

  • SAMUEL FERLDANA ANDERW MAFFIE

    5
    By SAMUEL MAFFIE
    FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25 (2020)

  • Great Book, But too positive

    4
    By tessie sad about new color cup
    This book was good, but (spoiler alert) I dislike that in every series everything works out perfectly in the end. Obviously things aren’t perfect , but the characters personal lives/problems are all resolved. I would have found it more interesting had there been more tragedy written in.

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