#A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld told in the Language of Flowers

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ashdown?? they are related?!

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A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld Told in the Language of Flowers by Cassandra Clare & Cassandra Jean - blurrypetals review

originally posted mar. 6, 2016 - ★★★★★

A must have for anyone who loves learning random tidbits about their favorite characters. The paintings Cassandra Jean did are worth the price alone just to see them in print but learning even the most obscure things about almost every single character that has appeared and will appear in The Shadowhunter Chronicles makes this book an out-of-the-park home run. 

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TSC Reading Guide

So I’ve seen many reading guides on what order to read Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicle books and I would like to offer my suggestions.

My guide will be for people who haven’t read any of her books yet and want to know where to start. So that being said, I have 2 guides: an unconventional order -which is the suggested one - and a conventional order.

In summary, if you want the “full reader experience” you’ll want to read the books in publication order. If you still want to read the books but aren’t bother by possibly spoiling certain plots, I’d recommend reading TMI, TID, TBC, TFTSA, TDA. GOTSM, and TEC in that order. Below the cut, I explain my reasoning as well as list the books individually in my recommended orders. 

So if you have never heard of these books and have not been spoiled on plot points, while this is gonna sound weird, I would recommend reading the books in publication order. This does mean you’ll be jumping back and forth between series in the beginning but to get the same reactions and feelings readers got as these books were being published, this is probably the best way to read them. The main reason is that The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, while separate series that can be read by themselves, are related and the plots are kind of intertwined. Without spoiling anything, they basically reveal information about each other. So if you want to find out information as readers found it out as the books were published, this is the order I would recommend. Following publication order, the order would be:

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1)

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2)

City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3)

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1)

City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4) 

Clockwork Prince  (The Infernal Devices #2)

City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5)

Clockwork Princess  (The Infernal Devices #3)

City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6)

The Bane Chronicles

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy 

Lady Midnight  (The Dark Artifices #1)

Lord of Shadows  (The Dark Artifices #2)

Queen of Air and Darkness  (The Dark Artifices #3)

The Red Scrolls of Magic (The Eldest Curses #1)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

The other companion books (The Shadowhunter’s Codex, Shadowhunters and Downworlders, and A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld: Told in the Language of Flowers) can be read in any order as they don’t really reveal plot and are just supplemental to the other books. I would say they can be read anytime after finishing TMI and TID. 

That being said, the weird jumping back and forth might be a bit weird for some people. If you’d prefer to read each entire series at once, then the order I’d recommend is the following:

The Mortal Instruments

The Infernal Devices

The Bane Chronicles

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

The Dark Artifices

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

The Eldest Curses (this series in not completed)

There isn’t much difference between them besides the fact that you finish TMI before starting TID. Like I mentioned before, doing this will reveal very important information in TID that I believe will ruin the experience of reading TID. You could read TID before TMI but in my opinion the Shadowhunters’ world is set up more for the reader in TMI. But this is just a suggestion. 

I will mention I did not even follow either of these guides when I read the series. I first read the series in the August of 2012, which meant the latest book that was published was City of Lost Souls. If I’m not mistaken, I kept up with the publications until City of Heavenly Fire was published in 2014 and then unfortunately, I stopped reading books altogether because life got in the way. I only got back into reading these books and reading in general in December 2018 so my reading order was kind of messed up and I was also spoiled of a lot things before reading them. So I read the books in this order and still thoroughly enjoyed them:

City of Bones 

City of Ashes

City of Glass

City of Fallen Angels

City of Lost Souls

Clockwork Angel 

Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Princess

City of Heavenly Fire

Lady Midnight

Lord of Shadows

Queen of Air and Darkness

The Bane Chronicles

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy 

The Red Scrolls of Magic 

Ghosts of the Shadow Market

Anyways, I hope this wasn’t too confusing and I don’t mean to say there is one correct way to read the books. You can do whatever you want. These are just my suggestions since seeing there are 15+ TSC books! 

P.S.  I’m sorry if the formatting on this looks weird; I used to use this app to just scroll through content and I never posted so this is kind of new for me :)

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Get your hands on 'The Shadowhunter Chronicles' merchandise from TopatoCo

Get your hands on 'The Shadowhunter Chronicles' merchandise from @Topatoco

Cassandra Clare fans/art lovers, rejoice! TopatoCo, the online shop that sells Cassandra Jean’s tarot cards and A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld told in the Language of Flowers, added lots of new and beautiful merchandise. https://twitter.com/cassieclare/status/901158410409955328 You can now purchase the following merchandise items: Cassandra Jean’s Emma poster that was…

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Hey Cassie! I was wondering if you would write out a full list of abbreviated book titles since it's been getting harder and harder to remember which one is which!

TSC: The Shadowhunter Chronicles (Not a book, but the umbrella term for everything written in the Shadowhunter World.)

TMI—The Mortal Instruments:

CoB: City of Bones

CoA: City of Ashes

CoG: City of Glass

CoFA: City of Fallen Angels

CoLS: City of Lost Souls

CoHF: City of Heavenly Fire

TID— The Infernal Devices

CA: Clockwork Angel

CP: Clockwork Prince

CP2: Clockwork Princess

TDA— The Dark Artifices (In progress)

LM: Lady Midnight

LoS: Lord of Shadows

QoAaD: Queen of Air and Darkness

TLH— The Last Hours (In progress)

ChoG(?): Chain of Gold

CoI: Chain of Iron

CoT: Chain of Thorns

TWP—The Wicked Powers (Yet to come!)

Short story collections:

TBC: The Bane Chronicles

TftSA (or TSA): Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

(Every story title in these books can also be abbreviated, so if you see an abbreviation that isn't on this list, it's probably a short story title!)

"The Malec project:"

TEC—The Eldest Curses:

LBotW: The Lost Book of the White

TBVotD:The Black Volume of the Dead

TRSoM: The Red Scrolls of Magic

Other Sundry items:

SC (or TSC): Shadowhunter's Codex

AHoNS&DoDtitLoF*: A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld told in the Language of Flowers

*JUST KIDDING! We usually just call it "The Flower Book" : D

SH&DW: Shadowhunters and Downworlders (collection of essays about the Shadowhunter world)

TMICB: Mortal Instruments Coloring Book

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Reading Goals for 2018

Finish Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Finish The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series (currently reading Tenth Grade Bleeds, need to read Eleventh Grade Burns and Twelfth Grade Kills)

Read The Return of the King, thereby finishing The Lord of the Rings

Get up-to-date on Shadowhunter Chronicles (read The Dark Artifices #2: Lord of Shadows, need to obtain and read The Shadowhunter’s Codex and A History of Notable Shadowhunters & Denizens of Downworld: Told in the Language of Flowers), coming this year: Ghosts of the Shadow Market and The Dark Artifices #3: The Queen of Air and Darkness

Finish The Hunger Games Trilogy (need to read Catching Fire and Mockingjay)

Read more Rick Riordan books (need to read Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide, The Demigod Diaries, The Kane Chronicles: Survival Guide, Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo short story, Camp Half-Blood Confidential, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #3: Ship of the Dead); coming this year: The Trials of Apollo #3: The Burning Maze and Brooklyn House Magician’s Manual

Get up-to-date on A Song of Ice and Fire series (need to read A Feast for Crows and A Dance of Dragons) and read companion stories/books (The World of Ice and Fire, Blood of the Dragon, Path of the Dragon, Arms of the Kraken, The Princess and the Queen, The Rogue Prince, and The Sons of the Dragon)

Read new books and graphic novels

Manage to finish and hopefully surpass my 2018 Goodreads Challenge

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Max calls Alec dad and Magnus daddy.

the way that I cried

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guys is there a discord about the universe of mortal instruments where we talk about all the books and our favorites and why we cried with them??

cause I need to be a part of it. please

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MENDOZA?!! beatriz and Cristina are related somehow???

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this one just killed me