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Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices, #3)

Cassandra Clare

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Mar 16, 2020 Michele rated it it was amazing

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4.5 stars

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Dec 29, 2018 Moriah Venable rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Words can not describe how much I loved this book!

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Dec 06, 2018 Noor Herondale rated it really liked it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. 4.5 Stars :)
SPOILER FILLED REVIEW

Cassandra Clare has always written beautiful finales and I expected nothing less, however I must say that the ending and solution to all the problems fell a little flat for me. Now don’t get me wrong, QOAD was amazing and it has gotten me very excited for The Wicked Powers.
However, I expected something much greater to occur from the parabatai curse.

The first two books built up so much fear around the parabatai curse and it was such a mystery to us, even Jem k 4.5 Stars :)
SPOILER FILLED REVIEW

Cassandra Clare has always written beautiful finales and I expected nothing less, however I must say that the ending and solution to all the problems fell a little flat for me. Now don’t get me wrong, QOAD was amazing and it has gotten me very excited for The Wicked Powers.
However, I expected something much greater to occur from the parabatai curse.

The first two books built up so much fear around the parabatai curse and it was such a mystery to us, even Jem knew very little that I expected either Emma or Julian to end up sacrificing themselves (preferably Julian) for the greater good. Now while I am happy that they both ended up happy and got to stay together I really don’t think it would have mattered either way since they had trouble keeping their hands off each other the whole book 😂. My least favourite part of the TDA triology is the relationship between Emma and Julian, I am just not invested in their romance as I have been with the relationships from Cassie’s previous books. THESE KIDS HAVE NO SELF CONTROL. OH MY I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW PISSED I WAS WHENEVER EMMA AND JULIAN WOULD MAKEOUT OR HAVE SEX WHENEVER THEY WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO. Like hello?!!! Magnus JUST told you guys to not even THINK about each other!!! I think another reason why I didn’t give this book a solid 5 stars was because of how much Jemma we had in this book.

I absolutely LOVE Emma and I enjoy reading from her POV because to me she really is kind of like the female version of Jace and I love it! Now let’s talk about Julian, I have never really been a huge fan of him. I mean he’s a great person who takes care of the kids and the institute but most of the time I didn’t really care for him. From all of the male protagonist, Julian is by far my least favourite and I think it’s because of how sketchy he is, I mean I understand how he’s had to take on many burdens and has learned to lie and scheme to protect the ones he loves but that’s just it. He cares so deeply that it’s actually kind of scary and Emma mentions it many times. For me, Julian just doesn’t fit the role of a hero and I was hoping he might become kind of an anti hero and do something outrageous to protect his family. When Magnus put the spell on him (Side note: Julian under the spell wa such an ASSHOLE! I hated it when he didn’t tell Emma that he was taking them to the Seelie Queen!)I knew it wouldn’t be permanent but I thought by the time it was going to be taken off, Julian would have already caused some kind of disaster. When I really thought about it though, I realized that, that’s just something I don’t think would have happened because despite everything Julian is a good guy. Not my favourite person but definitely good.

I think incorporating Thule into this book was brilliant. Seeing alternate versions of everyone was so interesting but also very upsetting since the whole world was run by demons thanks to Sebastian 🙄. (Side note: does anyone know why almost every character was mentioned in Thule except Simon!!?) Oh my goodness I LOVE ASH. I know we didn’t see much of him and he’s probably going to be evil but I think I might just end up getting my anti hero after all 😂. Him being Sebastian’s son wasn’t much of a surprise as I had figured that out in LOS, ALSO CAN WE TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT HOW DISGUSTING SEBASTIAN IS UGHHHHH THANK GOD HE IS DEAD IN BOTH UNIVERSES. Now we know Ash is very powerful and we also know Kit is the heir of the Fey so I am just BEYOND excited for the two of them to meet and hopefully have an epic battle or maybe form an alliance?!?!! Who knows?!!!!! But I am so ready for Kit, Ty, Dru and Ash to return!!

Having all of our favs from TMI was another thing I enjoyed so much I MEAN THAT MALEC PROPOSAL HAD ME IN TEARS 😭🥰!!! I WAS SMILING LIKE AN IDIOT THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WEDDING AND PROPOSAL. And I forgot how much I missed Jace I mean I’ve always loved him but it’s been sooooo long since I’ve read something new in his POV and seen him fight and be cute with clary. UMMM I WAS UPSET THAT WE DIDN’T GET MORE SIZZY like they were literally always in the background and said like a word every now and then which made me so sad since I wanna know WHEN THEY ARE GETTING MARRIED. I JUST WANT CLACE AND SIZZY TO BE MARRIED AND HAVING CHILDREN NOW! OKAY?

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
- Dru’s character development was amazing
- MARK KIERAN AND CHRISTINA WERE HOT AF
- TY AND KIT. Enough said.
- LIVVY OF THULE ❤️😢
- Diana and Gwyn
- THE FRITTATA SCENE😂

There is probably so much I’m missing since this was a LONG book but overall I highly enjoyed this and will forever be grateful of Casandra Clare and her magnificent mind that created such a beautiful fantasy world. I have been reading her books since I was 12 and am extremely excited for more from the shadowhunter chronicles. ...more

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