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.
Hello everyone!
First of all, I'd like to apologize for not posting anything for more than a week. We've both been really busy with school and therefore didn't have much time to neither read and review any new books nor update this blog. But we're back now and we'll do our best to post more frequently in the future. :)
*Review from June 2018
This book, guys. It's—I can't even begin to describe it. It's been a few days since I've finished it and I still can't sort my thoughts. For the past six months I've been reading TSC books and there has always been "another book I have to read after this one, and then another one and another one after that". Now that I'm sort of done and actually have to wait for QoAaD to come out I feel kinda empty. Like I'm done with something big. If that makes any sense XD
Let me start from the beginning. The main thing you need to know about this book is that it's super long—the printed version has about 700 pages. And normally, I'm not really thrilled when I see a book that long so I usually try to avoid them. To be honest, I even sort of dreaded reading this, especially since it's a second book in a duology and those tend to be a little slower paced.
But despite this book being really long and me being pretty busy with school and stuff, I managed to finish it in little less than two weeks—which I think says enough for itself.
The plot was not boring at all. In fact, I find that it could've easily been a stand-alone, or even two separate books. Still, it wasn't overwhelming, at least for me. Everything flowed logically and even though there wasn't that much of a mistery as in Lady Midnight, it was interesting and it kept me want to read more at all times *SPOILER*(well, to be honest, at the beginning, when it turned out Malcolm was still alive as some kind of a zombie, I thought it was going to be really lame, but fortunately I was prooved wrong very soon)
I loved how we got to know all characters a bit better. When I first started reading Lady Midnight I found them likeable but I wasn't particulary attached to any of them. But here, each of the Blackthorn siblings played an important role (except for Tavvy, but he is really young plus he played a pretty significant role at the end of LM) and I got attached to every single one of them. I even started liking Kieran a bit more (even though I still prefer Marktina to Kierark). Speaking of that, there were more Marktina momets and they are ADORABLE *fangirling*
Also, I really liked Kit, who played a much bigger role here than in LM, and his friendship with both Livvy and Ty was so pure. I'm also really curious as to his family history and I can't wait to find out more about it.
But the thing that had me mostly shook was definitely the ending. *MAJOR SPOILERS until the end of the paragraph* The last chapter, Ultima Thule, starts so peacefully that you would've thought everything was going work out nicely. Well, wrong.
I have to admit I accidently spoiled it for myself that [that person] was going to die. But nevertheless, I wasn't ready for that. The thing about the last chapter is that even when they started fighting and I knew it was going to be bad, I couldn't help but hope that I've misunderstood something. That [the person who dies] was going to be okay. And as Julian himself says "there is nothing more dangerous than hope”
Last but not the least: writing style. In my previous reviews I mentioned a lot of times that I'm not that fond of Cassie's writing style. Too many descriptions, weird metaphors and unnecessary synoyms. Well, the good news is: in this book it gets a lot better. Everything seemed more natural and it was much more easier to understand and enjoy the book.
Frankly: I loved it
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