The Horrifying Truth About Lady Midnight

Now, as many of you Shadowhunters (or just Cassie Clare lovers in general) know, Clare is writing a new book about everybodys favorite shadowhunters. Naturally, I was thrilled to learn about Lady Midnight, the first book in a new trilogy called The Dark Artifices. (Lady Midnight, The Prince of Shadows, and The Queen of Air and Darkness.)

"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."

Sounds great, right? I can't wait to see what it's cover looks like! Shadowhunters, shinny covers, Cassie Clare... What's not to like? See, here's the thing: previously, we thought we were going to be able to get our claws on Lady Midnight in fall 2015. It says so right smack dad in the back of everyone's copy of City of Heavenly Fire. There's been an update. The book is set to be released in March. March 2016.

I'm going to die. There is no possible way I can wait that long. I mean, in the begining, it's always, "Sure, I can wait!" Three weeks in, I always break down. I can wait a month for Forever (James Patterson) and The Heir (Keira Cass) But almost a year for Cassie Clare? Forget Gone. THIS is the way the world ends.

In the meantime, we can all read this little snipet:

“Let me tell you a truth before you die, Emma,” said the voice. “It is a secret about the Nephilim. They hate love, human love, because they were born of angels. And while God charged his angels to take care of humans, the angels were made first, and they have always hated God’s second creation. That is why Lucifer fell. He was an angel who would not bow to mankind, God’s favored child. Love is the weakness of human beings, and the Angels despise them for it, and the Clave despises it too, and therefore they punish it. Do you know what happens to parabatai who fall in love? Do you know why it’s forbidden?”

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