Has anyone started reading TSC by The Dark Artifices Series?
If so, out of curiosity, how was the experience? Because I imagine the first two book must have seemed okay to follow, but Queen of Air and Darkness was so full of references to other sagas that it seems strange to imagine someone reading it before knowing about TMI and TID.
I did. I received Lady Midnight as a gift in 2017 just months before the release of Lord of Shadows. I loved the book but there were a lot of blanks I had to fill. So I missed a lot of world building and ended up relying a lot of deductive reasoning and previous knowledge of different mythologies to understand it. After I finished I waited two months and got Lord of Shadows as soon as I could. It wasn’t until after that I discovered the original six books and I bought and read those in a heartbeat. Then I reread lord of shadows and lady midnight. It was only then that got a more complete understanding of the books. I do remember knowing already about the battle of burren, exactly how Sebastian died, and the infernal cup when reading tmi. Of course, from there I moved on to the infernal devices and I read the bane chronicles and Tales of the Shadowhunter Academy before queen of air and darkness came out but it was worth the wait. By that point it had already become my favorite series. I think tda holds more weight with me because of the way I did it but it was harder to understand.

























