In the wake of this Matthew also gets expelled by blowing up the South Wing of the Academy because he wants to return home to his father, Henry and make sure he is ok. Tessa is obviously upset when Jem explains he gave James the chance to return home and he refuses because he knew Tessa would blame herself for it when it was beyond her control. In a later training exercise where the students have to hunt and kill demons a student is killed and James uses his magic to destroy the demon which leads to him being expelled from the Academy and has to return home. Due to this he is moving to stay with the mundanes hoping to Ascend but most of the Academy is terrified of him and make fun of him and his ability to turn into a shadow. James has a hard time fitting in at the Academy and with making friends and this is only made worse when he manifests some warlock magic during a training exercise gone wrong, which is sort of expected since his mother is half-warlock but he is able to take runes unlike Tessa. James is also hoping to find his parabatai at the Academy but I am excited to see how this progresses. He was hoping to become friends with the Lightwood boys but Matthew who is older and very confident has beaten him to it and we also know from the present timeline that Matthew and James didn’t really like each other at all. This is an issue for James because despite looking like his father he is more like is mother, a quiet and shy child. As James arrives at the Academy with his father, we get to see Christopher and Thomas Lightwood, the children of Gabriel and Gideon as well as Matthew Fairchild, Charlotte and Henry’s child who are all friends.

Review: When I learnt that this story was going to follow only on Simon and Jace’s time at the Shadowhunter Academy but that of James Herondale, Tessa, and Will’s oldest child I was so excited as we meet him as a toddler in The Whitechapel Fiend and it is a prelude to the Last Hours series which is my next series in the Shadowhunter universe. Title: Nothing but Shadows (Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy #4)Īuthor: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

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