Week 6 Review: Ghosts of the Shadow Market

From Goodreads:
From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past.

Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah.

My Review:
Oh, yeah, I really enjoyed reading this collection of stories! I technically haven't read the last two, since they're set after Queen of Air and Darkness, but I'm going to read that shortly, and read those right after. I just want to read things in order, you know?

A lot of these stories, they had fantastic, great moments-but they also had pretty low moments, and the first one, espcailly, ended on that low note. The second one was a bit of a mixed bag. And espcailly since these first two stories star characters from the generation of the coming series, The Last Hours, well, it's sad that they were tortured like this before they make their big debut, but it was great getting to know them!

Brother Zachariah, or Jem when he's remembering Will, he's in all of these stories. And a lot of these stories wove between his quest to find the Lost Herondale, and the narrator of the current story. Because while it takes place at the same time, they don't intersect all that often. They do, but only for brief moments of time.

The whole story about the Lost Herondale, we learned so much about Kit's heritage, and what threats he faces, and it's so fantastic to read! We also just got moments in time with these various characters that added so much to the world. I just love these collections in this world!

Yeah, I loved reading these so much, they're such great reads!

Authors: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman
Series: Ghosts of the Shadow Market #1-10
Read: January 7th, 2020
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: Love this world, and these authors, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Book!
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: June 4th 2018

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars