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As we prepare to bid farewell to The Infernal Devices on March 19 and The Mortal Instruments next year, a new crop of Shadowhunters will emerge in two years.
The Dark Artifices, a sequel to The Mortal Instruments, tells the story of the Shadowhunters of the Los Angeles Institute in 2012.
When Simon & Schuster officially announced The Dark Artifices back in March 2012, they gave us a release date of 2015 for the first book in the trilogy.
According to the official Shadowhunter app, it now seems that we have a projected release month of March 2015.
Cassandra Clare recently shared the complete titles for the trilogy: Lady Midnight, Prince of Shadows and The Queen of Air and Darkness.
Here’s a synopsis of Book 1: Lady Midnight:
Los Angeles, 2012. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to the eradication of demons and being the best, fastest and deadliest Shadowhunter since Jace Lightwood. Raised in the Los Angeles Institute, Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian. As Emma hunts those who caused the death of her parents, the trail they’re following leads back to those they’ve always been taught to trust. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with Julian — her closest friend and, because he is her parabatai, the one person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica.
Keep in mind there is no current confirmed release date as we are two years away from Lady Midnight‘s release and that the release can be changed anytime from now until 2015.
How excited are you for The Dark Artifices? Sound off in the comments!
By the angel, it says “Since Jace Wayland”
WHAT HAPPENED TO JACE.
OMG!!!!
Not Jace!!! :’(
I don’t think it means that he is dead. Just that before the next series starts, Jace is the best ShadowHunter. Like the one all the new ShadowHunters strive to be like everyday. That’s why she put it like that. Jace is her role model, in another way of putting it.
Let’s face it…
NO ONE CAN EVER BE BETTER THAN JACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously… WTF, nothing can EVER happen to Jace!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Side Note*
I wonder if Magnus is gonna be in TDA?
I mean he WAS in TID and IS in TMI, one can only wonder is he is gonna be in TDA.
Cassie can’t let something happen to Jace, there would be uproar!! She wouldn’t do that…… would she?……would she!!? I was so worried about what was going to happen to Will in TID I never thought to worry about Jace in TMI, I don’t think I could deal with it if something happened to Jace!!
If she did anything with Jace that ends up with him dead, it would ruin her entire career and no one would go watch the films . . . because there would be no point of watching your FAVORITE CHARACTER DIE IN FRONT OF YOUR VERY EYES
I’m really hoping that says ‘since Jace Wayland’ because Jace is now ‘old’ and ‘retired’. I swear to god, if Jace dies, I WILL.NOT.READ.THE.DARK.ARTIFICES.
On a less depressing note, I hope we actually get to read about the parabatai ceremony.
Jace isn’t old cuz its only going to be 5 years afterward! He’s like only 17 now so he’ll be around 22 in TDA, unless he dies
;(….. Anyways he would also only retire if he gets some sort of disability or if it had something to do with Clary. Maybe he has a higher position in the Clave like the Inquisitor, or something. I also do believe I recollect reading something (i can’t remember when or where from) but it said that the person who was going to die in CoHF hadn’t died yet so it can’t be Jace because *spoiler alert for readers who haven’t read CoG yet* he died, shortly, but came back to life.
So that means Simon can’t die either , seen as he’s dead already
….. and Jace better not die !!
I’m really worried about Magnus dying…I’m kinda expecting a secondary character, like Luke, to die too.
can’t wait and everyone i remeber reading an inteview with cassie somewehre, and tihkn she implises jace and clary are some of the characters that live
i meant to say that I can’t wait. note to everyone: i remember reading an interview with cassie somewhere( i think it was posted on tmi source) and i remeber cassie said something that implied that jace and clary would be on the characters that survives
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Someone won’t survive the final battle of CoHF. When they die, I will shrivel up too, because I LOVE them all so MUCH. Also I really hope Tessa and Magnus are going to be in TDA. Jem, too. OMG!!!! Whats gonna happen when he meets Emma??!!! I cannot wait for 1 year for CoHF and 2 for Lady Midnight. *sobs at the long wait, and jumps in excitement*
I hope there will be a Herondale, because I love Herondale boy even if they are jerks and an ass but they all had their own reasons.
Stop being so melodramatic… of course Jace ISN’T going to die. That would ruin whole the book (CoHF).