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Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare - blurrypetals review

originally posted mar. 10, 2016 - ★★★★★

What an absolutely stellar, amazing, and incredible kickoff to a trilogy. Every single piece of this book was completely magnificent, surprising, and lovable in every way. I loved it. Comparing it to the other two first books in the Shadowhunter Chronicles thus far, it's the strongest, most compelling, and most fun of the three. Needless to say, I'm already starving for 2017 to be here so Lord of Shadows can be in my hands. That said, the material herein is more than enough to satiate me until then. Let me count the ways. There are some spoilers ahead. 1. Julian Blackthorn is, quite possibly, my new favorite character. If he isn't most favorite, he's second only to Will Herondale. Friends on my Facebook watched me over the last couple of days as I lamented over the pain this poor, wonderful boy has been through and does go through and will go through. The shoulders on this dear boy are burdened with a heavy weight and...good god, I just want to help him. He's such a dear, sweet person and I want to see him be happy so badly. 2. Jules and Emma. Oh god. My heart is fractured in a billion pieces. One minute, I'm warmed all over when Jules stays with Emma in the night. The next, Jules is acting weird and frosty. The next they're in the car, teasing each other and quoting The Art of War. Then they're bonding over that death-defying iratze. Then Jules asks Emma to pick him up cuff links ("I don't care as long as they hold my cuffs together. Otherwise they'll be sad and unlinked." I laughed WAY too hard about this line) and she freaks out because she thinks it's a girlfriend thing to do and is just adorable about the whole thing and later when they're getting in the car, Emma's thinking all possessively. Then oh my GOD that DANCE. Then Emma remembering Jace and Clary and realizing she would never be able to have anything like that with anyone but Jules...ugh. Poor baby. BUT THEN!!! THE BEACH!!! OH MY GODDDDDD. So sweet and loving and hot. But then...the morning after. Ugh. My heart. Then, oh my GOD them talking about their feelings and Emma challenging Jules to walk away and him just saying, "God, I can't." I about lost my damn mind over it. Then after the whippings, Jules taking Emma up to see all his artwork of her and professing his love!! I JUST!!! I CRIED OKAY! And then Jules licking her ear and them being fucking adorable and then...well, god, we all know how the book ended. We all heard me screaming and crying in my car about it. We all heard Julian's and Emma's hearts break. We were there. We all felt it. 3. Cristina cutting Mark's hair was such a sweet and intimate moment. I loved it. 4. Their conversation about The Avengers at the pizzeria was honestly the greatest thing ever. I also loved the whole group convincing the mundane girls that Mark had syphilis and that he was insane because of it. 5. "Do you need any help?" "I need SO much help you have no idea." 6. Simon and Isabelle are engaged! Jace and Clary are engaged! I'm having heart palpitations. This book was perfect. I need a minute or else I'm going to start crying again. This book is great, just like all its predecessors, and, I'm sure, its successors will be too. This whole thing is gonna be great...it just might take a couple of years.

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