Born to Read- Grace A.

                 The book Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare is a about the life of the residents of the Los Angeles Institute. Including an in depth view on the parabatai relationship. It is written within the Shadow hunters universe created in Clare's best selling series of books The Mortal Instruments and  The Infernal Devices. It is a parallel story line written five years after The Mortal Instruments stops. It deals in the after effects of "The Dark War" which is a war that occurred five years before and had claimed all of their parents in a raid on the Institute. Julian ,18, has been raising his four younger siblings, ranging from 15-7, since he was twelve. His parabatai is Emma, 18, she is an only child living with Julian and his family. She is haunted by the deaths of her parents who she suspects were not murdered in the attack on the Institute, because they were found in the ocean severely mutilated. This book captures your attention from beginning to end. It is a great story about human relationships with a little bit of action thrown in. I highly recommend this book along with the other books in the Shadow Hunters universe.