This
week, what's really got my pages in a twist is...
(The Dark Artifices #1)
Publication Date: March 8,
2016
Hardcover, 720 pages, Margaret
K. McElderry Books
Genres: YA, Paranormal
Los Angeles. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal
Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and
Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she
witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to to discovering exactly
what it was that killed her parents and getting her revenge.
Raised in the Los Angeles Institute with the Blackthorn family,
Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian Blackthorn. A series
of murders in the city catch her attention — they seem to have the same
characteristics as the deaths of her parents. Could the murderer be the same
person? And her attention isn’t the only one caught: someone has been murdering
Downworlders as well. The Fair Folk make a deal with the Institute: if the
Blackthorns and Emma will investigate the killings, they’ll return Mark
Blackthorn to his home. The catch: they have only two weeks to find the
killers. Otherwise it’s open war between faeries and Nephilim.
The Shadowhunters of the Institute must race against time to catch
the killers, even as they begin to suspect the involvement of those closest to
them. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with the one person in the
world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the
glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her
head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the
warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the
beaches of Santa Monica.
My Thoughts
Let’s
be honest. The only reason I’m looking forward to this is because I’m hoping
for a glimpse of Alec. I mean, the story will probably be great, but what
really is fueling my need for this book is a certain dark-haired archer. You
feel me? At least I only have to wait a few more days for this one.
What
book are you waiting on this Wednesday?
A lot of people have been waiting for Lady Midnight. And the release date is so close already. I'm also looking forward to the crossovers or some of the TMI characters showing up in the book.
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Little Librocubicularist (WoW)
I know! Me want some Malec. ;)
DeleteBeautiful cover! I really need to read more of Cassandra Clare. I have a lot of her books but still have only read one of them. I hope you love it once you get a chance to read it.
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