I honesty liked the book best when they talked about Ty and Liv and when people like Magnus, Jace, Clary, Tessa and Jen came into the picture. While his parenting and sacrifice is completely admirable there really isn't anything else about him I find enticing. The romance happened very quickly, I don't find Jules attractive. She's alright but her character is boring. I'm not going to act like this book is bad- it's not. So when you're Cassandra Clare and have such amazing original books like the Mortal Instruments series- everything is going to be compared to that. Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare's Dark Artifices series. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?

But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn't recognize his family. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind - and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it.

Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother, Mark - who was captured by the faeries five years ago - has been returned as a bargaining chip. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions. Together with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally best-selling Mortal Instruments series.

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