Title: Ghosts of the Shadow Market     

Author: Cassandra Clare  

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy     

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Format: Paperback 

Pages: 624

Rating: 5/5 stars 

Synopsis (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. 

Review:

Thank you to @simonschusterca for the book!

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I absolutely loved this one! This is a short story collection that focused on Jem Carstairs and other characters adventures through the Shadow Markets around the world! Jem is one of my favourite characters from this entire universe so I was really excited to get to read more about him! I usually like, but don’t love short stories, but these were all great! I also really liked how they were written in chronological order, starting in the early 1900s and onward! We also got glimpses from other great characters like Tessa, Alec and Magnus! If you’re looking to be transported back into the Shadow hunter world, then I definitely recommend this book to you!

Happy reading!