The Lost Book of the White: Volume 2 (Eldest Curses) Hardcover – 1 September 2020

This was just as sassy as the first one and as always Malec was both hot and adorable. Can't wait for the next one!!!!!

Love love love all of CCs books! Not as dramatic as the Clockwork Princess or Lord of Shadows but if you love Malec, you’ll love it. Also not much stakes because we already know spoiler Malec get married.

I got the hardcover edition and I was super happy with the look and feel of the book. As for the story I loved reading about alec and magnus and I especially loved little max!!!

Honestly, it was kinda cringe at times, and felt lore like a fanfiction, but we got Malec so all is good. Also, the endinggggg. Will it continue into TWP????

The story happens to be after Sebastian gets killed and shadow hunters have a cold peace with downworlder. Alec and magnus adopt a baby and have sweet little life but as usual his enemy Shinyun comes with Ragnor and attacks him with a weird thorn and stoles the lost book of white.The tmi team along with Magnus goes to Shanghai to retrieve the book and save Ragnor. But Shinyun being crazy stabs magnus with thorn once again and with third strike magnus gonna be under the influence of Sammael.So to stop that the whole Team along with other shadowhunter of Shanghai institute goes to Diyu (another hell dimension)to save Ragnor, Magnus, the book and stop Sammael from devouring earth.Will they able to save Ragnor and Magnus?Firstly will they able to fight against prince of hell?For this go ahead and read the lost book of white. Another adventure to hell 😍.💀What I mostly loved about the book is?This book gave me nostalgic feels.It’s like I felt I’m in tmi series again which I missed mostly these days.The story is good enough but i expected a big fight but it just ended quickly.Mostly I love the epilogue because it talks about Lucifer and we gonna expect Lucifer in book3 which I’m totally excited about.With each book clary writes Malec relationship builds very much.💀And this is the second LGBT book I read so far.I think I’m liking this genre.💀Author:I love whatever Cassandra writes. Obviously she is my favorite author. Her writing is so simple that everyone can easily read. That’s what I love most about. We can easily imagine the demons she describes in books.

“If you died,” he said, “a part of me would die too. So remember, Magnus. It’s not just your life, it’s my life too.”“Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. That is, until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus‘s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to follow the thieves to Shanghai. And Magnus has been stabbed with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers.Fortunately, they have backup in the form of Clary, Jace, Isabelle and Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus’s magic is growing unstable, and if they can’t stop the Demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source- the very realm of the dead.”The Lost Book of the White is the second book in The Eldest Curses series that follows Magnus and Alec’s adventures. The book takes place three years after the events of the first book, The Red Scrolls of Magic.Magnus and Alec struggle to find and stop a cult and keep up with their new relationship in the first book. A lot has changed for them since then and they have come a long way. They live together now and are raising their son Max (whom they adopted in Tales from the shadowhunter academy ) together. But since they lead a life that is filled with demons and Angels, they will have to do their duty one way or the other.After the Book of the White is stolen and Magnus has been stabbed, things start to change drastically for everyone. Portals are malfunctioning all over the world, Demons are following wherever they go and Magnus’s magic is misbehaving in unexpected ways. We start in New York and the search for the book leads us to Shanghai.The writing covers an excellent imagery of Shanghai in so many beautiful ways. We explore the mundane streets and also the downworlder neighbourhood, and reading about both gave me a feeling that I was present there. We also go to a faerie book store called the Celestial Palace (yes, despite the cold peace) and the sunlit market (which is the only shadow market in the world that is organised during daytime) in Shanghai.There is a different aura of Shadowhunters in this place. They have a good relationship with downworlders and even faeries. I loved exploring the new place and its shadow world because usually we move around New York City, London and Los Angeles in the main book series and never see other places much.There is a lot of use for Chinese mythology in the book, demons to hellish realms, everything is set against the theme of Chinese mythology and exploring that was one of the best part about the book. Okay this is a very little spoiler, but I am still going to say it anyway- the same gang that goes to Edom, goes to another hell realm in this book! It’s honestly VERY adventurous.Okay end of spoiler LOL. I’ve become accustomed to the larger-than-life narrative in the recent Shadowhunter works and this one just set the bar high! It really amazes me that even after so many works, there is still so much scope left for the future Shadowhunter books and it barely feels exhaustive at all.The epilogue- of course Cassandra Clare’s Epilogues have become better with each new book, and The Lost Book of the White was no exception. It’s incredible how the narrative of the Shadowhunter books includes larger forces at work in a certainly small setting.I have so much more to talk about this book but I cannot do that without giving out spoilers, so I’ll end my review here. My Instagram DM’s will always be open to discuss the Shadowhunter books (lol, any books honestly). Also, this book marks my having read all the published Shadowhunter books and now I’ll have to wait for the next books to come out *gets very impatient*