
The story switches between Magnus and Alec rather easily and without confusion, as it was told in Clare’s standard third person perspective, and it works well. Although they play more heavily into this book, they do so without overtaking the story from the two main characters, and they don’t need to. Seeing Jace, Clarey, Isabelle, and Simon again was something that some might’ve felt was missing from the first book of the series. The adventure this time brings along some other familiar characters that we’ve all grown to love from Clare’s past books, and they were welcomed with open arms. That doesn’t mean their lives are in no less danger, however, and The Lost Book of the White pretty much shows how much that’s true.

Unlike the first book of the series, Alec and Magnus have become fully committed to each other, their love unwavering and only growing more even with raising a child.


This time around, Alec and Magnus are fully established in their relationship with each other, along with an adopted toddler son by the name of Max Lightwood-Bane, something that was realized in a previous book series of Clare’s The Shadowhunter Chronicles. Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu continue the adventures of Alec and Magnus with book two of The Eldest Curses Trilogy, The Lost Book of the White.
