Lady Midnight

I was thrilled when I saw the incredible cover to this book. I was so excited to return to the fictional realm of the Shadowhunters. I went back and forth between a Kindle library book, Libby audiobook, and my own expensive hardcover copy of this book until about 40% in. Then I had to up and put it I the donate pile. Junk. This book is completely ruined by trying to conform to a new liberal, sex-driven, beyond appropriate relationship status. It isn't just love triangles, more like pentagons, and not just a side homosexual or bisexual individual, but over the top fluid sexuality all. In the past, I have found Cassandra Clare to be a powerful storyteller but the plot is completely lost in this book through the murky sexual gunk.

Unfortunately, the only thing I want to say when I finished this book is finally.

I still have really warm memories about previous Cassandra Clare's series - The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. Even if I know, that if I read them now, I would not be impressed. But I still waited for that humour that was a big part in the previous books. Or for whatever else I liked.

Here all that waited for me were disastrous romantic geometry, plainly facepalm moments and annoying characters. The last but not the least, the novel was so long, like a never-ending nightmare.