The hardest part is deciding what covers to buy lol

okay i’m so glad you enjoyed the chronological order because i know most ppl recommend reading TMI before TID since there is more world building in that one, so i was doubting starting with TID first. i always like to read books chronologically, it really bugs me if i don’t, so now i will for sure pick up TID first :)

I love that you included the last option!! It was almost the order I read the books in (I started reading when City of Heavenly Fire came out, so The Eldest Curses weren't published yet) and I loved that way so much! 😍

Thank you soooo much, i really needed to listen this before starting this series 🥰🥰🥰

I can't express enough how much I love your video. I finish the first 3 of the mortal instruments, and I been looking for a reading order and haven't found any. Yours save my reading ❤

LITERALLY WAITING FOR THIS THANK YOU

So helpful ! Thanks a lot for the rescue ! I was so lost !🧡

Tysm for posting this!

I'm not a big fan of The Mortal Instruments series but I love The Infernal Devices series so I kinda stop continuing this shadowhunter universe because everything is kinda overwhelming and confusing for me but I'm so intrigued with The Last Hours series, so I guess I'll go with the first option, thanks so much for this video, really helped me a lot.

I am going to re-read everything today and I am going to choose your recommendation. I already know the universe and I started also with city of bones and it was a great like this! Now I am older and more books are published I choose the chronological order. It’s a great way for me to re-read the books and put some new ones in the order.

Awesome vlog ‼️💯💖

Omg I’m Currently rereading clockwork Angel and absolutely loving it amazing . Just got 200 pages in for my second reread and it’s incredible ❤

This was really cool and came at the right time. I've been wanting to do a re-read so the chronological order sounds really fun, but I've only read the mortal instruments, the infernal devices, and the first book in the dark artifices so a lot is going to be new for me too. So maybe I'll do the combo. Ahhh I can't decide lol.

Amazing video I’m starting the series and chronological order makes more sense

I wanted to read a series and started mortal instruments because it had a nice name :). It is my first time reading series so I had no idea. Who knows that continues up to 20 and more. But still hoping to continue. Nice video and good explanation. And I'm Magnus' fan too :)😉

I absolutely love this kind of videos! I'm currently reading this universe following in the Third Option which is how the author recommended it, also, I didn't know Ghosts of the Shadow Market is from Jem POV? 😭❤ i'm so excited to get to that one now

Read this series at like 12, loved it. Very nostalgic hehe

I started reading the series in 2016 when I saw the mortal instruments published as two separate trilogies in the same book in Italy where I live, then I was gifted the tales from the Shadowhunters academy and read them, then I read the infernal devices, then I went on with the last hours, finally I finished with the dark artifices. After that I went on with the codex, then I finished the Bane chronicles and now I'm currently reading the red scrolls of magic. so my reading order is all over the place!

My brain hurts on the way we’re supposed to read the series but thanks for the video! I love the shadowhunters so much and I was confused on how to read all of them so thank you so much!! PS: If it’s not too much to ask for, could you please make an updated version after the new series comes out or the new book in Eldest Curses. You really don’t have to. Just curious, or maybe after the last series is over. I hope I’m not asking for much!

Somebody needs to make one of those plot summary videos for the mortal instruments series because I've given that series a try but there is no way I'll actually read six (or however many) books of it but I still want to know all the important stuff that happens😭

I've read almost all of them and in publication order. Does the last hour series before or after infernal devices? Just curious since i just got the first book chains of gold and im always behind

The infernal devices is the only series I’ve read through. Tried the mortal instruments but couldn’t get past city of glass. Quit shadow hunters after that but I want to read the other series and they won’t be the same experience without mortal instruments. I loved the bane chronicles though. And the newer series sound so good

I fehlt really offended when you said that the last hours is your least favourite series. I love it and it’s one of my favourites. My least favourite series is the dark artifices, because of Julian who is like a cursed version of Clary from the mortal instruments. Cassandra Clare tried to revive the love story of Jace and Clary by switching the gender of their personalities. So Clary’s character is similar to Julian’s and Jace’s to Emma’s. But it just didn’t work and it’s really weird.

Just went to a little free library and found The City of Bones, the city of glass and the City of Heavenly Fire and now I find out I have to read about 10 books before I get to them 😭 and also I two of them are hardcover with the colourful cover and one is paperback with the black and white cover 😭😭

I did enjoy the internal device series I was nervous to read it because I thought I wouldn't like it

Where do I put in Cassandra Clare’s new book

I read The Infernal Devices years ago and absolutely loved it. I’m currently reading The Last Hours (just started the 1st book), and I’d like to read The Dark Artifices once I’m done with this trilogy, but everyone and their mother says I must read The Mortal Instruments and the novellas first, which I can’t be bothered to do. I have zero interest in TMI and don’t want to commit to 10 books of required reading just to get to the three I’m actually interested in. If I just read spoilery summaries of all TMI books, will that be enough?

Child my brain is spinning but I bought CoG on a whim bc I saw a clockwork readers reading vlog and knows she loves the series. But chronologically is what I’ll probably do

(SPOILER) I started reading the last hour’s series just about three weeks before chain of thorns was released. I finished chain of gold and chain of iron in one week of sleepless nights, and when Cordelia left for Paris with Mathew, I felt like James waiting for her return. The absolute heart ache that I felt was….. in-explanatory, I believe I connected quite deeply with the characters.

Also, I was not even planning on reading The Eldest Curses because I prefer to read trilogies when they're completed, but is seems like it will take a long time (I started two years ago and still there's no book 3). But from what you said I understand that they take place in different years?. Would you say that The Lost Book of the White has a "satisfactory" or "closed ending"?

Not me watching this after reading City of Glass as my first book due to my Dad buying it for 2£ at a flea market 😭😅 And well- now I wanna read it in order...

I've debated for yeeears whether I should pick Cassandra Clare up until about 3 weeks ago when I said what the hell and did a bad thing which is ordering all the books that's out now. This is it guys, I'm diving in lol. Wish me luck! For my reading order though, I chose to do option 4 but with one more change which is reading the first 3 books of TMI first before doing TID straight, then picking up TRSoM as kind of like a refresher book before I dive back into TMI. Thank you so much for this guide! I watched a couple of vids and I found that this one made the most sense to me. Hopefully I will like it well enough to try the other reading options in the future! EDIT: got a question for anyone that can offer some insight. Should I pick up the Codex as I go through the first 3 books of TMI? Will that spoil some future stuff? I was wondering if it will give me a better grasp of the world/setting if I read the Codex simultaneously as I'm being introduced to the whole thing. If not, when do you guys think is the best time to stick it in?

Being a Honduran (and anti Bezos) its really difficult to order the ones I dont have. Cause I read books in english but ITS SO HAAARDDDD and unaccesible :( I really love the universe tho

Will there be spoilers if we read in chronological order except for the infernal devices epilogue?

Girl, breathe

I started reading City of Bones (I’m on page 160), and JUST came across this video. Do I need to change to Infernal Devices?

I feel like the most recent Last Hours books really spoiled The Dark Artifices. Still loved it but I was reading like "Well I guess new people shouldn't read the books chronologically anymore."

wait in the first order, when do i read the shadowhunter codex?

I have decided not to continue with the last hours series I didn't enjoy books 1 and 2 plus the series felt like a cash grab to me

I hope this isn't the end of filming in your library. That place is so cool