I was positively obsessed with the not-so-secret creepy carnival market in Chattanooga from “Learn About Loss” and how the Downworlders lured in mundanes that were devastated by the Great Depression with promises of food, fun and forgetting the outside world with little to no cost to them. The backdrop of the different Shadow Markets was a fun way to tie the short stories together, while also giving readers a look into how these different markets function within the Shadow World. I feel like I say this in every single one of my reviews, I’m going to say it again: There was so much to love about this collection. Here is the good, the bad and the best from Ghosts of the Shadow Market. The wheel has spun and Jem has received a second chance at life.

That is until his salvation is brought by none other than a Herondale, and he is once again mortal. For 129 years, Brother Zachariah clings to humanity and hope, meets old friends and makes new ones along the way, serves as a protector of the innocent and spreads a message of loss and love throughout the Shadow Markets that he has become such a familiar presence at.

Ghosts of the Shadow Market features 10 short stories following Brother Zachariah’s journey through various Shadow Markets around the globe on assignments for the Silent City and a personal mission to protect those he loves and find a lost line of Herondales. Unable to leave his parabatai, Will Herondale, and true love, Tessa Gray, behind, Jem chose the latter and became Brother Zachariah. In 1878, Jem Carstairs had a choice: die young from the yin fen that burned his blood for years OR become a Silent Brother and swear to hold the Nephilim’s secrets for eternity to evade death. GoTSM, co-written by Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link and Robin Wasserman, is the third novella collection in The Shadowhunter Chronicles and was published in June 2019. It left me feeling as if something was missing that I somehow looked past. It wasn’t bad at all, but it wasn’t as complete as some of Cassie’s other novella collections. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is the first Cassandra Clare book since Clockwork Angel that was kind of … unsatisfying. I’m just going to say right out of the gate that I’m conflicted about this one. “Life was full of broken hearts and missed chances.” Jem Carstairs, “The Land i Lost” A deep dive into the novella collection by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Line and Robin Wasserman

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