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The Dark Artifices · Book 2

Lord of Shadows

by Cassandra Clare
Published
23 May 2017
Pages
720
ISBN-13
9781442468405
Type
novel
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About this book

Lord of Shadows is by Cassandra Clare, the second novel in the Dark Artifices series, published in May 2017. In the reading order it follows Lady Midnight and precedes Queen of Air and Darkness.

Key facts about Lord of Shadows

Lord of Shadows is a novel by Cassandra Clare. Readers have had it since 23 May 2017. It runs to 720 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Lord of Shadows. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781442468405 to find the main one.

Lord of Shadows is book 2 of 4 in The Dark Artifices series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Lady Midnight (2016). Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 17 March 2026.

Additionally, Cassandra Clare writes The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and Magisterium, plus 4 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, A Sea Change is the latest published Cassandra Clare book on file, from 28 April 2026.

About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare built one of young-adult fantasy's largest ongoing universes almost by accident — she was writing entertainment journalism in New York before her 2007 debut, City of Bones, grew into The Mortal Instruments, the six-book series that introduced Shadowhunters: warriors who hunt demons in a modern world hiding in plain sight of angels, vampires and warlocks. See every Cassandra Clare book in order.

Its place in The Dark Artifices

Lord of Shadows is book 2 in the The Dark Artifices series. It follows Lady Midnight. It is followed by Queen of Air and Darkness. See the full The Dark Artifices reading order.

Five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire, Emma Carstairs is a Shadowhunter in Los Angeles still hunting her parents' killers, bound by an unbreakable parabatai oath to Julian Blackthorn -- a bond that makes the romantic feelings growing between them not just complicated but explicitly forbidden by Shadowhunter law. When a new string of murders echoes the pattern that killed Emma's parents, she and Julian's investigation drags the Los Angeles Institute into a conspiracy involving the Faerie courts and…

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