Ghosts of the Shadow Market by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link, and Robin Wasserman

Cast Long Shadows

So the ending made me cry. I will never not be an absolute sucker for Jem and his friendship with Will.

I am properly sucked into The Last Hours now. I hope I have picked the correct name of the series that come out next. I am so interested to see the ways in which Mathews sins cast shadows upon that series. I was so sad for his inability to talk to others and also found this origin story compelling. And also I would kill for Henry still. He is the perfect scatterbrained doting husband.

Every Exquisite Thing

Thought I wasn’t going to cry than that ending jumped in here and made me cryyyyy.

I am getting so excited for the next series. I cannot wait to spend more time with the queer badass, that is Anna Lightwood. I want her to find happiness outside her family. I am so excited to read a Shadowhunter series where the parents are good parents. And around generally.

This short story was romantic and sad and so about family and belonging. So it was right up my alley. The genderqueer lesbian is a cherry on top.

Learn About Loss

I am so sad. In a happy-sad way. If you are a Jem and Will kind of person, then you have to read this and be very sad with me. I don’t want to state the obvious, but this friendship is so sweet and meaningful, and I cannot bear the sadness and wonder of this friendship.

We also get to spend a significant amount of time with Sister Emilia, an Iron Sister in training. And she is truest delightful.

I’m going to cry then read the next story.

A Deeper Love

High-quality Tessa Jem angst. Set in London during an air raid in WW2. We have information reiterated about the lost Herondales. Which obviously makes me want the last series very much.

The Wicked Ones

Well. I have most certainly cried again. Tessa and Jem feels. They will get you every time.

I really liked knowing more about Celine’s life, hearing her thought process. She now seems much less stupid and sweet and much more incredibly manipulated and self-flagellating. And she was so close to an ending that could have been happy, but then we would have no books.

Son of the Dawn

Oh! More crying. Not as hard but still crying. I loved the Jem and Will connection. And I really loved seeing baby Jace post-trauma and pre thrust of his story. And baby Isabel being super unsure, and baby Alec already being sad.

The Land I Lost

I’m so happy we finally got the story of how Alec and Magnus adopted Rafe. This was the only sport so far that I forgot that this was a story about Jem for any amount of time. There was a part of the Jem and Tessa story that made me tear up; also, I am deeply invested in the first heir stuff, but I properly cried because of Alec family feelings. It makes me want to skim through all the Shadowhunter books for the Alec and Magnus love story parts. I am especially in the mood to reread the wedding.

Through Blood, Through Fire

Good old fashion Tessa and Jem in a life-threatening situation dealing with BIG emotional questions. Super easy to guess about if I cried if not.

The Lost World

A massive glimpse into some of the chaos that the final Shadowhunter series shall be. I am beyond ready to get there. I think I’m going to literally be 30 when the last Shadowhunter book comes out.

Forever Fallen

Ohhhh. Almost didn’t make me cry. Then Jem and Tessa and Kit had a moment then Jem and Kit had another moment. And it got me.

Overall

I’m not entirely sure if this is my favorite of the three short story collections, but it certainly might be. I love this one.

The collection is super cohesive, each story stands on its own as a single unit and also builds towards the next story and meshes with the books that came before they did. They also had me so excited for The Last Hours and then deepened my lamentation that The Wicked Powers is many years away. My heart is waiting to be shattered by all that is in store for that final series.

I gave this book 5 stars on Goodreads and have a review up on tumblr!

I also have a general Shadowhunter Chronicles world crossword coming tomorrow! I will add a link as soon as it is up!