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Ghosts of the Shadow Market by Cassandra Clare
4.0

3.75

1) Son of the Dawn ★★★
2) Cast Long Shadows ★★
3) Every Exquisite Thing ★★★★★
4) Learn About Loss ★★
5) A Deeper Love ★★★★
6) The Wicked Ones ★★★★
7) The Land I Lost ★★★★★
8) Through Blood, Through Fire ★★★★
9) The Lost World ★★★★
10) Forever Fallen ★★★★½

I'm feeling especially lazy so I won't be fully reviewing The Lost World or Forever Fallen. Just know that they're both great. A+ Kit, Jem, Tessa and Mina content, with a dash of Ty, Livvy, some people from Thule and our TMI gang. They're also both directly setting up The Wicked Powers, which I'm so excited for I can't actually handle it.

I (shamefully) still haven't read The Bane Chronicles, but comparing this with Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy there's a clear winner. I think that as a whole TFTSA feels more cohesive and works better as a whole, but none of the stories in that can hold a candle to the best GOTSM stories.