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  • Lady Midnight: A Shadowhunter Novel

  • The Dark Artifices, Book 1
  • By: Cassandra Clare
  • Narrated by: Morena Baccarin
  • Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,328 ratings)
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Lady Midnight: A Shadowhunter Novel

By: Cassandra Clare
Narrated by: Morena Baccarin
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Summary

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. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.

It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

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. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions....

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

Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare's Dark Artifices series.

©2016 Cassandra Clare (P)2017 Simon & Schuster

Critic reviews

"Clare's well-developed protagonists...pell-mell action sequences, complicated family dynamics, and fascinating magic system continue to engage." ( Publishers Weekly)

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EXCELLENT

Purely fantastic, an absolutely wondeful story that kept me listeningfrom start to end. Book two next.

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Enjoyable and easy listening.

Shadow hunters exist in the modern world along side vampires, werewolves, mages and fae. They must live by strict and sometimes unfair seeming rules.
The story focuses on 2 teens living in this world, thier friendship and love for thier family and the battles they have to protect it. it includes all the teen angst you ould expect from that and more.

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Great book, poor delivery

No individual accented characters makes this a lot harder to listen to than many audio books, the tempo is also all over the place. Excellent story I just wish it was read with more flavour as I’m sure the writer intended it to be.

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Fantastic Book

great story and the narration is good, could do with a little more emotion in the voice but overall a good listen

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Enjoyable fantasy

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Easy escapism

What other book might you compare Lady Midnight: A Shadowhunter Novel to, and why?

Twilight

What about Morena Baccarin’s performance did you like?

Mellow voice with good characterizations

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I am a more mature listener and enjoy fantasy as a break from heavier reading. This is obviously a young adults book but still quite fun. The advantage of the younger style fantasy is that you don't get all the flowery pulsing porno that is ubiquitous in adult fantasy which I find tedious. Good story with interesting characters.

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An everyday tale of shadow folk

Would you try another book written by Cassandra Clare or narrated by Morena Baccarin?

I have enjoyed the other books in this series but this one is lacking a plot. If you listened to this one first it would put you off the others.
There really is no excitement.

Has Lady Midnight: A Shadowhunter Novel put you off other books in this genre?

No but would be cautious.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

What story!

Did Lady Midnight: A Shadowhunter Novel inspire you to do anything?

This reviewNo other than write

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very good can't

can't wait for the next one to be on here. I enjoyed it a lot

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Pretty average book. Nothing more.

I listened to this over what seems like weeks. The problem is that the narration is so boring, and the voices are not different enough so I wasn't always sure who is talking.

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good easy listening

really enjoyed the new characters easy listening and can't wait to hear the next installment.

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overall good tho unusual use of language

generally an enjoyably story with a few interesting characters. There was an occasional word that seemed out of place usually descriptive words that didn't really suit the context and so jarred a little. Other than that it was okay, though I do feel like I have missed a while series of prequels

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