#6 in Urban fantasy
Lord of Shadows
- 752
- Pages
- about 14 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Lord of Shadows” is an emotional, action-heavy middle volume of “The Dark Artifices” that deepens its characters and raises the stakes. Cassandra Clare gives her best pages to the longing between Emma and Julian and to the twins Ty and Livvy, while the story opens up the fae courts. Each respite is followed by a fresh setback. It runs to over seven hundred pages, and some readers feel that is a little long.
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About the book
Lord of Shadows is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare. It is the second book in The Dark Artifices, which is chronologically the fourth series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. The book is set in the Los Angeles area in 2012. The titles from each chapter are derived from the poem Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe.
Reading order · The Dark Artifices
Full order & progress →- Lady MidnightStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - Lord of ShadowsThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - Queen of Air and Darkness
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 201 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Urban fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.4 | 7 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.3 | 194 | 97% |
Frequently asked
What age is Lord of Shadows for?
Lord of Shadows 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 752 pages — longer than 77% of the ranked books in Urban fantasy.
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