Hi everyone, it's Sandy and today I will be discussing Lord Of Shadows by Cassandra
Clare. This is the second book in The Dark Artifices trilogy and I'm so
excited to talk about it in today's video. Since this is the second book in
the trilogy, this video will contain spoilers. I am going to start this video
by talking about my thoughts in a spoiler free section so if you haven't read this
book, you can still continue watching it and I will warn you guys before I jump
into the spoilers section. Also if you haven't read Lord of Shadows, beware the
comments because the comments may contain spoilers. So in case you don't
know what the first book Lady Midnight is about, it basically takes place five
years after the ending of The Mortal Instruments series and it follows our
main characters, Emma and Julian, who are parabatais. In the Shadowhunter world, parabatais
are forbidden from falling in love. So five years ago, Emma's parents
have been murdered and Emma is really determined to find out the killer but
also throughout this book, she and her parabatai, Julian, kind of start
developing feelings for one another and things go from there. That's a pretty
vague synopsis of Lady Midnight. I highly recommend that you guys read the other
Shadowhunter books before starting Lady Midnight. I know there are so many
Cassandra Clare books out there but honestly, you would have a much better
reading experience reading Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows if you have read the
previous books in the Shadowhunter Chronicles. So beginning with my spoiler
free thoughts of Lord of Shadows, I loved it. I thought it was an amazing sequel. I
have fallen in love with the Blackthorn family since reading Lady Midnight and
my love for them continues to grow in Lord Of Shadows. I also really love the
different plot lines within this book. In this book, there's this cohort who are
advocating restricting the rights of Downworlders. And in case you don't know
what Downworlders are, they are vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and fairies. And
members of these cohorts are really passionate about restricting the rights
of these Downworlders and the whole political climate in this book is very
reflective of our world today. In this book, we do get more passages told in the
point of views of characters that I wanted to learn more about. For example,
we have a lot of chapters told in Kit's point of view and then we have some
chapters told in Diana's point of view. And I especially really liked learning
about Diana's backstory. Overall, I ended up rating this book a
five out of five stars. I loved this book and I am very sad that
we have to wait two years for the third book in this trilogy because the next
Cassandra Clare book that's coming out around this time would be the first book
in The Last Hours, which is going to be a new Shadowhunter series and I'm so
excited for that but I just hate that I have to wait two years for the last book
in this trilogy. Now I'm going to jump into the spoilers section, so if you have
not read Lord of Shadows, you need to exit out of this video or else you will
be spoiled and that is no fun whatsoever. So please exit out of this video if you
haven't read Lord Of Shadows and if you have, then keep watching.
Just like the first book, in Lady Midnight, this book begins with Kit's
point of view. I've really grown to love Kit in this book. I didn't really like
him as much in Lady Midnight but that's because we didn't really know him and I
really loved his friendship with Livvy and Ty. I loved all the different adventures
that they went on and all of their interactions. Kit is definitely a
Herondale. He has some of the most sarcastic and funniest lines in this
book. He's just very typical of a Herondale. You can definitely see it with
how he acts and the way that he speaks. I love Kit's character arc. In Lady Midnight,
he basically wanted nothing to do with Shadowhunters but now he has found a
place where he feels at home and where he feels he belongs and it just makes me
so happy. Just a side note, I ship Ty and Kit so hard. I love that once Kit is like
living in the Institute, Ty just kind of follows him around and sits outside
of his room. I just think that they're so cute and I can't wait to see where their
relationship develops in the third book. So like out of all the ships in this
book and all of the like potential couples in this book, Ty and Kit are
definitely like my number one. Obviously, I want Emma and Julian to be together
but honestly, I don't like hardcore ship them. So at the end of Lady Midnight, Emma
and Mark begin this kind of fake relationship in order to get Julian to
stop loving Emma and obviously, we know that this whole fake dating situation
isn't going to make Julian stop loving Emma. I'm really glad that Emma
told Cristina that her relationship with Mark is completely fake and she's
doing it in order to protect Julian. I really love her friendship with
Cristina. I love that they are really open with one another. I'm glad she
didn't have to pretend and that she didn't have to lie to Cristina. At the
beginning of this book, Jace and Clary are somewhat present. So we know that
Jace proposed to Clary but we didn't get Clary's response to his proposal in Lady
Midnight. When Clary is talking to Emma, we find out that Clary said no and the
reason she said no is what concerns me. She says no because she thinks she's
going to die and she thinks it's going to happen pretty soon and that just
terrifies me. It makes me so nervous. I do not want Clary to die whatsoever.
Especially with one of the deaths that happened in this book, it makes me nervous
that Clary might die in one of the future Shadowhunter books. I don't
know why Cassie is doing this to us. Like why is she putting these feelings
of fear for the character's life. This is some sort of foreshadowing thing
and I hope Clary is going to be completely okay by the end of the whole
Shadowhunter Chronicles but knowing that Clary has this feeling just makes
me really scared. And then she asked Emma that if she does die, to tell Jace that
she knew and that she did want to marry him but she didn't want to marry
him if she knew that she was going to die and I'm just feeling a lot of
emotions right now. Going back to the fake dating with Mark
and Emma. I'm so glad that relationship did not last very long and that they
didn't actually like develop any feelings for each other. In other books
where there is like a fake dating relationship, characters tend to develop
feelings for one another but I'm so happy that Emma and Mark's friendship was
strictly platonic. Let's talk about Zara Dearborn. The Centurions arrived in
the Institute and we are introduced to this character named Zara Dearborn
and we find out that she is Diego's fiance. And immediately, I knew I wasn't going to
like her. Everything that came out of this girl's mouth was just making me
livid. I was so angry at everything that came out of her mouth. She needed to
leave. She was so frustrating and her character just makes me so angry. There's
also a part towards the beginning of the book where Julian and Kit goes to the
Shadow Market and on the way back, Kit says that one of Julian's brother is
weird and Julian automatically assumes that Kit is talking about Ty but Kit
basically says that he's talking about Mark and that Ty isn't weird, he's just
autistic. Knowing that Ty's autistic isn't surprising because the author
portrays a lot of signs of Ty being autistic in Lady Midnight and throughout
Lord of Shadows and it kind of surprises me that Julian has never heard of the
word autistic before and how little Shadowhunters know about like the
mundane world. But it's awesome that we have this representation of a character
who is autistic. And then Gwyn shows up and he tells Mark that Kieran is
basically imprisoned by the Unseelie King because he killed Iarlath and
Kieran is now sentenced to die and Gwyn wants Mark to save Kieran. At
first, Mark says no but then later he runs off by himself to go to the
Faerie Land and of course, Julian, Emma, and Cristina follow him in order to help
him. And in this Unseelie Land, we learned that runes, seraph blades, and
witchlights are basically useless and that just had me really nervous because
I feel like Shadowhunters heavily depend on all these items so I was just really
nervous that something bad was going to happen in
this Faerie Land. And while these four characters are in the Faerie Land,
we have Ty, Livvy, and Kit, who go spy on Zara and we learn that Zara wants to
basically get rid of Arthur and have her father replace Arthur as the head of the
LA Institute. And together, they are going to try to implement this Downworlder
registry, which is terrible and just makes me hate Zara even more. Before Emma
goes into the fairyland they come across this creature called the phouka and the
phouka tells Emma that she will encounter a loved one who has died.
Immediately, I knew it was going to be one of her parents and so when Emma has
to battle the Unseelie King's champion, we find out that this champion
is Emma's dad and I'm pretty sure everyone knew that that wasn't actually Emma's
dad and that it was some sort of illusion. And then back at the LA
Institute, Malcolm Fade has returned, which is not a surprise at all because
everyone knew that Malcolm wasn't actually dead. If you don't see a
physical body that is actually dead, then that character has not died. But what
happened next is what surprised me. So we know that the Blackthorns are going to
London, which makes me really excited because I love going back to old places
that we've read about, but when the portal was opened to the London Institute
and all the characters went through, except Arthur, I had a feeling that
Arthur was going to sacrifice himself. And Julian meets with the Seelie Queen
and the Queen basically shows him this kind of glass that allows him to see
what's happening at the LA Institute. We see Arthur basically running out and
confronting Malcolm and Malcolm kills him and then Annabel rises and Annabel
kills Malcolm. I honestly didn't think Annabel would kill Malcolm. I thought
they were just going to run off together and plan something in hiding but Annabel
killing Malcolm was definitely a shocker. After all of this happens, the Seelie
Queen tells Julian that she knows how to break the parabatai curse and she will
tell him how in exchange for the Black Volume, which Annabel has and she will
also end the Cold Peace and bring Helen back. I read quite a few theories that
people have on how the parabatai bond could be broken. There were so many great
theories that seemed very plausible but the ones that I've seen are ones that
Cassie has responded to and she basically said no, this is not how it's broken. And
one of those was that Cortana could break the parabatai bond so I'm really
looking forward to the third book and reading about how this
could be broken. And so now most of the Blackthorns and Kit are in the London
Institute. And in the London Institute, there is a character named Bridget and
immediately that name rung a bell because there is a character named Bridget in
the Infernal Devices. And on Cassie's Tumblr, she answered a question about
Bridget and basically, Bridget would have to be like about 140 years old, which no
one lives up to that age, possibly one day, but at this moment, no that's not
possible. Cassie basically says that Bridget is
not immortal, she's just long lived and that we'll learn more about this whole
thing in The Last Hours. And in the London Institute, we have snippets of Jessa(mean)
or Jessa(mine) being present as a ghost and I really love that Kit is able to
talk to her even though Jessamine wasn't my favorite character in the Infernal
Devices. It's nice to have this little snippet of her. I also wanted to talk
about Gwyn and Diana. When Gwyn meets Diana, he's really like into her and he
wants to ask her out and I thought this pair was just really cute.
And then we learned that Cristina and Mark are bounded together.
And then we have a scene where Ty, Livvy and Kit go to the shadow market and obviously, trouble
ensues. Livvy ends up being injured and passing out and seeing Ty's reaction to
everything just makes me so sad. He blames himself for what happened to Livvy
and I really like seeing how supportive Kit was to Ty.
I really love the moment that Ty had with Kit following this incident.
I love how supportive and understanding Kit is of Ty and it just makes me happy
that Ty and Kit have this sort of connection. So Kieren finds a way to meet
with his brother Adeon, who is basically like the good brother. During this
meeting, Cristina is eavesdropping on the conversation and then Erec shows up. Erec
says that the King has sent these riders called Mannan's Seven. These riders are
much older and much more powerful than the Wild Hunt and they are basically
sent to retrieve the Black Volume. So we have like half of them going to Emma and
Julian and then the other half going to Ty, Livvy, and Kit. Emma ends up killing
one of these riders, which no one has ever done before.
These riders are basically supposed to be invincible. Nothing is supposed to
kill them but Emma uses Cortana and is able to kill one of them and I know that
this death is going to come into play in the third book. These riders are just
going to continue to seek vengeance. When Ty, Livvy, and Kit are facing these riders, I
was really scared for them. I love this trio so much and I wanted nothing to
happen to any of these characters and I really love that Gwyn saved
everyone. And then Jamie shows up. So Jamie is Diego's brother. I was very
suspicious of his intentions. After a while of Dru hiding Jamie from everyone
in the Institute, she finally lets Cristina know that
Jamie is there. I just wanted to have them talk longer and to talk more about the
things that happened concerning why Cristina left the Mexico City Institute
in the first place. And we learn from Jamie that he has this family heirloom
that allows the person wearing the heirloom to enter into Faerie undetected
but that's all he knows about the heirloom and he want to learn more
about what it does. And then we have a scene where Dru touches the heirloom
and she is transported to the Faerie Land and that scene just had me really scared
for Dru because she's 13 years old. She doesn't have much experience and she
doesn't have any weapons on her whatsoever. When Dru was in the
Faerie Land, I'm not exactly sure whether she was in like the Unseelie Court or
the Seelie Court but she encountered this boy who was about her age. So Christine
from Polandbananasbooks has this theory that Sebastian and the Seelie Queen
had a child together and she thinks that this boy is the child of Sebastian and
the Seelie Queen... but we also learned that in this book, the first child of the
Unseelie King was taken from him, so could this 13 year old faerie possibly be
the King's first child? Who knows but I'm definitely intrigued. So Emma finally
tells Julian about the parabatai curse and I'm just so glad that this thing is
out there between them. And I was just so relieved because I hate it when
characters keep secrets from one another. And Julian tells Emma that the Seelie
Queen knows how to break the parabatai curse and it involves using the
Black Volume but doing so will destroy every single parabatai bond in the
world and that's just insane to me. Again, I'm just so interested to see how
this whole storyline will play out with the whole parabatai curse and parabatai
bond. Finally in this book, we learn more about Diana's backstory. So in Lady
Midnight, Diana was a pretty shady character. By the end of the book, we
learn to trust her but she still has her secrets and in this book, we finally
learn about her backstory and we find out that Diana is trans. She opened up to
Gwyn and that whole passage of Diana telling her backstory to Gwyn was just
so beautiful. It makes me so happy that Diana is able to become the person that
she wants to be but it also makes me sad because it prevents Diana from being the
head of the LA Institute and if she was found out by
the Clave that she was trans, then the Clave would know that she used like
mundane medicine in order to transition and that would lead her to be imprisoned,
which I don't really understand why that's such like a huge problem in the
Shadowhunter world. Maybe we'll learn more about that in the third book. So
Julian and Magnus have a talk. Julian tells Magnus that he is in love with
Emma, and Magnus' response to what Julian should do was surprising because
Magnus basically tells him and Emma to tell the Inquisitor what's going on,
and so Emma and Julian do actually go talk to Robert.
They basically propose to him that Emma should be exiled, which should help weaken
the parabatai bond and postpone the parabatai curse. And one of my favorite
moments in this book is when Helen returns and we have this whole reunion
with the Blackthorn family. Ty sees Helen and then Livvy sees Helen and she
starts running into Helen's arms and it was such a beautiful moment. Before the
whole meeting begins, Magnus passes out and Magnus was
basically supposed to be the anchor in this meeting to help control everything
that's going on and make sure that nothing goes out of hand. So of course, in
this meeting, they make Annabel hold the Mortal Sword. You know, I had the
thought like why did they make Annabel hold it, like, couldn't they make Zara
hold it? I don't know... but everything basically goes terribly wrong
after that. Annabel ends up killing Robert Lightwood, which was really
surprising because I really didn't think Cassie would kill a character from
previous books. So since Robert dies, the whole plan of exiling Emma is no longer
available. Annabel starts freaking out and going
on this kind of rampage. Emma ends up using Cortana to shatter the Mortal
Sword and then Annabel takes one of the pieces of the Mortal Sword and she
stabs Livvy in the heart. And that moment the tears started flowing. My heart was
breaking. I was a sobbing mess. I just could not handle that. About like 10-15
seconds before Livvy was stabbed, I knew that she was going to die because she
was trying to make her way to Julian and Julian was constantly telling her, "Livvy,
get back, get back" but she kept pushing forward. And the second that sword went
through her heart, I just... I can't. I felt like there was like a few foreshadowing
scenes of Livvy's death. There was a beautiful scene in this book where
Julian and Livvy are talking and Livvy tells Julian that she wants to run an
Institute when she grows up. I really love that
scene. And then there's also another scene where Livvy talks about the clock
that when it chimes the hour, the gates to heaven open. Cassie could have had any
other characters say that line or have that scene with Julian but she chose
Livvy and it makes me so sad. I don't think I will ever get over Livvy's death.
I'm really starting to tear up now but my heart just hurts for Ty because Ty
and Livvy had such a special relationship and with Livvy gone, I don't know how he's
going to handle that but I'm so glad that he has Kit. I know that Kit will
play such an important role in Ty's life now that Livvy is gone and I'm pretty
sure that Livvy's death is basically going to be the turning point with
Julia's character. Throughout Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows, we have so many
different characters telling Julian that he has a ruthless heart, including Emma.
There were multiple lines of Emma remembering that Julian's actions scared
her and I know that this death will forever change Julian because all he
ever wanted to do was protect his family but now one of his family members was
killed and that's just going to change him. Honestly, I've never cried this hard
about a character's death since I read Allegiant, so this death definitely
impacted me. So Annabel just disappears from the scene and we know that the Unseelie
King that took her. With Magnus passing out, we learned from Alec that there are a
lot of warlocks getting sick, including Tessa. Tessa and Jem were
looking for some sort of cause or cure to the sickness but that's all we get so
that story is definitely going to be more developed in the third book and I
hope everything is going to be okay. I don't want Magnus or Tessa to die. So
overall with my thoughts, I love this book. I really don't have anything
negative to say. The final book is called Queen of Air and Darkness and it will
come out in 2019, which is two years from now. It's going to be a painful wait but
it's definitely going to be worth it. Again, I give this book a 5 out of 5
stars. That is all I have to say in this video. Thank you so much for watching. Let
me know your thoughts on Lord Of Shadows in the comments below. I hope you enjoyed
watching this video and I will see you next time. Bye!
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