Cover of Queen of Air and Darkness

Queen of Air and Darkness

expanded novel 2018 The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Record

First published2018
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statusexpanded
First-edition ISBN9781442357167

Synopsis

Closing The Dark Artifices, this novel finds the Los Angeles Institute caught in political upheaval as the anti-Downworlder faction known as the Cohort maneuvers Inquisitor Horace Dearborn into power. Dearborn sends Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn on a mission to Faerie meant to eliminate a resurrected Annabel Blackthorn and retrieve the dangerous Black Volume of the Dead. The two are unexpectedly pulled into Thule, a devastated alternate reality where the Blight, a demonic corruption, has ravaged the world, and they must find a way back while the Cohort tightens its grip on their own world through a proposed Downworlder registry. As old bonds are tested and transformed, Emma and Julian must find a way to stop Dearborn's rise before the Cohort's vision for Shadowhunter society becomes permanent.

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (The Dark Artifices): A sequel trilogy set five years after The Mortal Instruments.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series The Dark Artifices: position 3 of 3: previous Lord of Shadows (2017)

Sources

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