#23 in Urban fantasy
Queen of Air and Darkness
- 912
- Pages
- about 17 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Queen of Air and Darkness” closes “The Dark Artifices” with a vast, crowded finale made for those who know Cassandra Clare’s earlier series. Its 912 pages bring back figures from every previous cycle, and some readers enjoy the reunions as much as the love story of Julian and Emma. The happy ending strikes some as too easily won, and others think the book runs on past its natural close or holds enough for two volumes.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Queen of Air and Darkness is the third and final book in The Dark Artifices trilogy by Cassandra Clare, which is the fourth chronological series in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. This series follows the characters of the LA Institute in 2012 and features characters from all of the previous series. The chapter titles all come from the poem The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe.
Reading order · The Dark Artifices
Full order & progress →- Lady MidnightStart here
8.28.2 / 10 - Lord of Shadows
8.28.2 / 10 - Queen of Air and DarknessThis book
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 163 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Urban fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 163 | 100% |
Frequently asked
What age is Queen of Air and Darkness for?
Queen of Air and Darkness 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 912 pages — longer than 90% of the ranked books in Urban fantasy.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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