Lady Midnight

#8 in Urban fantasy

Lady Midnight

Cassandra Clare

First published 2016Original language ENYoung adult

8.28.2 / 10
Score out of 10312 ratingsConfidence 68%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#8 of 45 in Urban fantasy ahead of 84% of the category
771
Pages
about 14 h
Reading time

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About the book

Lady Midnight is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare. It is the first book in The Dark Artifices, which is chronologically fourth in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The book follows the events that occur in the Los Angeles area in 2012, focusing on the residents of the Los Angeles Institute. The title was based upon Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and all of the chapter titles are lines from the poem.

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Reading order · The Dark Artifices

Full order & progress →
Score per volume3 volumes on a timeline, 2016 to 2018 · Best-rated volume: Lord of Shadows
  1. Lady Midnight
    Lady Midnight2016 · 312 ratingsThis book
    8.28.2 / 10
  2. Lord of Shadows
    Lord of Shadows2017 · 201 ratings
    8.28.2 / 10
  3. Queen of Air and Darkness
    Queen of Air and Darkness2018 · 163 ratings
    8.18.1 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.2 across 312 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 68% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Urban fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover8.2312 100%

Frequently asked

What age is Lady Midnight for?

Lady Midnight sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 771 pages — longer than 94% of the ranked books in Urban fantasy.

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