L'amore più grande

Ghosts of the Shadow Market #5

by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson

Il quinto racconto della nuovissima serie Fantasmi del Mercato delle Ombre firmata da Cassandra Clare con Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, Kelly Link, Robin Wasserman.

Londra, dicembre 1940 Sono passati ormai tre anni da quando Tessa Gray ha perso il suo amatissimo marito e ancora fatica a trovare una ragione per continuare a vivere. Persino la sua adorata città sembra in lutto per il suo Will, ora che la guerra sta riversando morte e distruzione nelle sue strade. Per fortuna Tessa ha Catarina Loss accanto a sé. Entrambe lavorano come infermiere in uno degli ospedali della città dove, grazie ai loro incantesimi, lottano ogni giorno per salvare la vita ai mondani feriti. Una notte, nel pieno della loro attività, giunge in ospedale una vecchia conoscenza di Tessa, Jem, il suo Jem, l'unica anima, oltre a Will, che abbia mai amato. Le sue condizioni sono disperate, ma Tessa non può accettare di perdere anche lui...

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Audiobook, Paranormal

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 14, 2018

About the author

Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and which later inspired her current pen name).

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.
Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.

City of Bones was her first novel. Sword Catcher is her most recent novel.

Reviews

[Emma Giordano · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately, I did not love this novella either! Ghosts From The Shadow Market have been fairly hit or miss for me, and this is definitely one of the novellas that will not stick. Some of the novellas are so valuable and do a spectacular job at adding development to the many stories of the Shadowhunter Chronicles and others, like A Deeper Love, tend to lack that feeling of “I NEEDED this story”.

CW: war, death

I really enjoyed the setting of the story. I would not consider myself a huge fan of historical fiction, but I always enjoy reading snippets of characters whom I already love exist within my history/the history I’ve learned about in school.

I also enjoyed getting to see more of the friendship between Catarina Loss and Tessa – the thought of them living together and working as nurses to help with the war absolutely warms my heart.

Another factor I really appreciated about this story is we get a bit of a deeper understanding of Tessa's grief and see her start to come to terms with her mortality. Out of her appearances in the many many installments of the Shadowhunter Chronicles, we see Tessa either young or old. She's either just begun to understand her identity, or she's had over a century to live and learn. This novella takes place during an extremely trying time in Tessa's life and I am very satisfied that we get to see her being vulnerable and starting to recover.

Other than that, this story didn’t have a “WOW” moment for me. The ending was sweet and sad at the same time, but the plot did not impress me. It was a bit slow and stagnant in my opinion and I wish there had been a greater force propelling the story.

If you REALLY love Jem, Tessa, and Will and will grab at the chance for any story concerning the three of them, you’ll probably really enjoy it. If you’re looking for something more, you will probably share my thoughts on this one.

[~Calliope~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

"My Tessa,
There will be no separation between us.
Where you are, I am. Where we are, Will is.
Whatever else I may be, I remain always,
Your Jem"

[Melanie (meltotheany) · Rating 3 out of 5]

“…those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.”

Friends, I was not expecting a WWII story set in London that starred Tessa Gray and Catarina Loss working as nurses. But oh my gosh, it was so beautifully and hauntingly unexpected. And there is still a Shadow Market that they bargain at, but even the paranormal war is impacted (both positively and negatively) by war. And Brother Zachariah just happens to be at the Shadow Market, where bombs are dropping from the sky, while he gets into his own altercation with a fae who thinks he is meddling in affairs that do not involve him. And I believe the point of this story was that we get to see that weapon poison that Julian and Emma deal with in Lady Midnight. I also cried for probably a third of this just because Brother Zachariah and Tessa both dealing with loss, while healing and living with love, just guts me every time. It’s so pure, and so hopefully, and just gives me all the feelings under the sun. The power of love is something so strong, and this story just left me in awe, honestly.

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[Isa Cantos (Crónicas de una Merodeadora) · Rating 5 out of 5]

“If she lived until the sun died, there would never be any other for her besides Will and Jem, those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved”.

Siempre que pienso que estoy preparada para leer historias sobre Will, Jem y Tessa me estrello contra una pared y me doy cuenta de que, aunque han pasado muchos años, aún no supero sus historias. Hay algo que se quedó muy enterrado en mi corazón y que creo que nunca se va a ir de allí. Jem, Will y Tessa son personajes que, por cursi que suene, me recuerdan lo importante y poderoso que puede ser el amor.

En A Deeper Love nos encontramos con un momento tremendamente difícil de la vida de Tessa. Ha pasado un año y medio desde la muerte de Will y el mundo ha perdido un poco de su color, así que para mantenerse ocupada y no ahogarse en la pena, Tessa se convierte en una enfermera en Londres en medio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ella, junto con Catarina Loss, atienden a cientos de heridos por las bombas y los ataques aéreos, pero nunca pensaron que Jem (ahora el Hermano Zacariah) llegaría al hospital al borde de la muerte.

No se imaginan lo impactante que es todo este relato. No sólo por la ambientación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que nunca falla en hacer que mi parte más sensible salga a flote, sino por la cantidad de sentimientos que vive Tessa en menos de un día. Haber perdido a Will ha sido de las cosas más duras que ha tenido que soportar, pero en el fondo siempre pensó que tendría a Jem, incluso como Hermano Silencioso, a su lado, que nunca estaría sola. Pero cuando ve que Jem está muriendo por un veneno poderosísimo de las hadas todo su mundo se sale de su eje. Me dolía muchísimo leer ese miedo que la embarga cuando no sabe si Jem sobrevivirá, cuando piensa que nunca tuvo esa oportunidad de amarlo de la manera en la que él siempre quiso que ella lo amara. Joder, todo era demasiado para mi corazón.

Las conversaciones de A Deeper Love también me mataban. Dioses, releería mil y un veces las palabras que se dicen Tessa y Jem, las miradas que comparten, los abrazos y los besos prohibidos. En medio de la absoluta tristeza (y wow... se me están aguando los ojos) que me da el saber que Will está muerto y que nunca más va a poder estar con Tessa ni ver a su parabatai, el saber que Tessa y Jem siempre van a encontrar la manera de estar juntos y de vencer esa soledad abrumadora que dejó la partida de Will... bueno, me da muchísima esperanza y me hace tremendamente feliz.

[Līga Sproģe · Rating 3 out of 5]

"It is only three years since Tessa Gray lost her beloved husband William Herondale, "

#NO #RUDE #ABSOLUTELYNO #IREFUSE

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After finishing this I can't help but feel a bit disappointed. It was rather short and left me with an impression of a filler. Where I was hoping for a heartbreaking conversations and Tessa & Magus brotp, from all the Shadow Market stories this was the most boring one yet. London In World War II, Jem gets hurt, Tessa and Catherine saves him, the end.

[April (Aprilius Maximus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

brb crying

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this novella we see Tessa during the second world war. Guys, all the talking about Will was just too much, I miss him a lot, ok? I'm happy to see Tessa still has Jem to help her remember Will and also as a dear friend, or maybe more. Jem saying "Will, is that you?" was probably my undoing, it was a cry fest. I'm very happy to see that all the bits and pieces about the lost Herondale are finally coming together and I think/hope we'll discover all there is to know in the last book of TDA series.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Deeper Love by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson is the fifth novella in the young adult paranormal fantasy Ghosts of the Shadow Market series. This series is another companion set of novellas that are brief glimpses into events set in the Shadowhunter world of the Mortal Instruments series.

This fifth book takes readers back to the time of World War 2 with Tessa Gray becoming friends with Catarina Loss after the death of William Herondale. The two have taken up jobs as nurses during the war working at a hospital when Brother Zachariah is brought in needing their help. With some of my favorites in this one I couldn't help but love this extra peek into their immortal lives during a time not touched on in the full length series books.

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[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this WWII era story in London. Jem is such a complex character and it’s sad yet fascinating to see the constant battle within himself.

[Chi]

It’s JESSA guys!

[Suzzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always love reading about Jem, Will, & Tessa! They are, hands down, my favorite trio in literature. I remember reading the Infernal Devices series and just laughing out loud at the dialogue and interaction between. So I knew I would love this little shirt story and I was not disappointed in the least!

My quick and simple overall: awesome short story.

[t · Rating 5 out of 5]

sobbing at 12am over 10 course meal of amazing jem/tessa excellence and having to see what it was like for them to live without Will in the world. Damn bitch let me live....imyewh I miss you everyday will herondale.

[shirley ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

“My Tessa,
There will be no separation
Between us. Where
You are, I am. Where we
Are, Will is.
Whatever else I may be,
I remain always,
Your Jem”

I love them with all my heart. 🖤🖤

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

We all know My love for TID so I will gladly take anything with any of the characters.

1. THREE YEARS AFTER HE DIED. do not do this to me!
2. So cute, I love everyone too much
3. I am Trash for these characters, more please
4. I am intrigued of what’s to come...
5. Give me all the Herondales! But one...

Son of the Dawn - 5 Stars
Cast Long Shadows - 3.5 Stars
Every Exquisite Thing - 5 Stars
Learn About Loss - 5 Stars
A Deeper Love - 4 Stars
The Wicked Ones - 4 Stars
The Land I Lost - 5 Stars
Through Blood, Through Fire - 5 Stars

[Paola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this.... An encounter between Tessa and Jem during WWll... A companion novella can't get better than that 😍

[Ashlee » libraryinthecountry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such a sweet story about Jem and Tessa. Highly recommended if you need more Jessa in your life!

[Alexandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

No amount of tissues will be enough when I read about Tessa and Jem!! This story gutted me, reading both POVs!! 😫😫😭😭😭

[Souma BookAddict · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been, by far, my favorite novella from the Ghosts of the Shadow Market!
I Love to see Catarina in action. Such an amazing and underrated character. I hope we get to read more about her.

[Althea ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75

for making me cry

[kim hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ┊ 5 stars

There will be no separation between us. Where you are, I am. Where we are, Will is. Whatever else I may be, I remain always.

Holy sweet baby James.

That tore my heart out. Thanks a lot Clare. It wasn't enough that this story takes place 3 years after Will Herondale's death...but you all gotta tease us like that?!

Oh my Jem and Tessa.

And what a coincidence that I just finished reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and this was set in WWII!

I can't wait another month to find out what happens.

I am here, James. I am here, and I will always be here.

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1. Son of Dawn ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. Cast Long Shadows ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. Every Exquisite Thing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Learn About Loss ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. A Deeper Love ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. The Wicked Ones ⭐⭐⭐
7. The Land I Lost⭐⭐⭐

[Amelia Oswald · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fear had not won. Death and fire and war had not won.

Actual rating: 4,25 stars
The year is 1940, World War II. Our favorite Tessa is now a nurse. I feel like Tessa is lucky and unlucky all the same. She is lucky when she found two people she love dearly and they love her in return. But the unlucky part is that she has to see her love ones walk away from her. We can still see her love for Will and Jem in this story. Her lost with Will's death and her secret love with Jem. We all know what happens in the future but it's still a good story for anyone craving a good Jem/Tessa moment. And that note Jem gave to Tessa though

My Tessa,
There will be no separation between us. Where you are, I am. Where we are, Will is.
Whatever else I may be, I remain always,
Your Jem

[lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

“If she lived until the sun died, there would never be any other for her besides Will and Jem, those two twin souls, the only souls she had ever loved.”

[Jelena Milenković · Rating 5 out of 5]

How could I rate Jessa with anything less than 5 stars, I ask you?!

[Angigames · Rating 1 out of 5]

La Clare e le sue collaboratrici ce l’hanno messa tutta per fare il botto! E che botto! Sento ancora l’eco della caduta! Penso che queste siano le 50 pagine più inutili dell'intero mondo Shadowhunters.
Premessa, questa è una mia personale opinione e, ovviamente, non ho intenzione, con il mio commento di offendere chi invece ha amato il racconto. Detto questo, sono una persona troppo sincera e istintiva per trattenermi dal berciare.
Che succede in questa novella? In pratica nulla.
È il nulla assoluto, se non si conta il fatto che ci vengono riproposte le solite dinamiche che ormai, quando si parla di Jem, vengono quasi naturale, e questo non è un bene. Il racconto si apre con Tessa e Catarina alle prese con morti e feriti causati dalla seconda Guerra Mondiale, bene mi sono detta, almeno qualcosa di nuovo! Invece no! Poche righe dopo ecco che rispunta il passato, ormai diventato, per me alquanto pesante e ridondante. Will è morto da tre anni e la sua signora ha capito che per lei non c'è posto tra gli Shadowhunters, quindi si è rifugiata tra i nascosti. Il dolore lacera Tessa ogni giorno, ma i feriti la aiutano a non pensare a cosa ha perso. Fino a che… non viene ferito anche Jem e allora, la signora in lutto si trasforma in una signora isterica perché, ovviamente, non può perdere anche Jem. In fondo lei è sempre lei, Tessa-li-amo-entrambi! Così si ripropone il triangolo amoroso più stupido del mondo. Quello che ho odiato di più. Perché è stato tenuto in vita solo al fanservice. Questa incapacità di passare allo step successivo delle autrici lo dimostra. Quando si tratta del triangolo Jem-Tessa-Will, la Clare non sa più che scrivere!
Almeno Jem ha la decenza di sentirsi in colpa, mentre Tessa da vedova disperata si trasforma in colei che reclama l'amore di Jem, anzi del suo Jem (ma chi te lo tocca, Tessa mia, tranquilla!), tanto che anche la povera Catarina non ci capisce più una mazza. 🙈
C'è un accenno all'Herondale perduto, ma tutto viene dimenticato quando si parla dell’ammmore vero, quello che abita in più corpi, quello delle anime gemelle multiple!
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Che trovata di merda hai avuto Clare! 💩
Con questo triangolo ti sei data la zappa sui piedi!
Il racconto si conclude nel nulla, nulla è successo e nulla ci è stato spiegato… insomma, L'INUTILITÀ DILAGA!
Questi racconti si fanno sempre più VUOTI... e io sono sempre più delusa!😬

[jessie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay I’m a weird person. Actually just because I like Jem just a tiny tidbit more than Will, I actually ship Wessa just a tiny tidbit more than Jessa. But comparisons ASIDE!!! My Jessa feelings oh my God it came in fucking waves reading this. The novella gives out just a little about the Lost Herondales and the plot is basically that Jem almost died and Tessa is freaking out it’s kind of boring. So there’s plot though not much, there are of course feels and the World War background. Seeing Tessa and Catarina tending to the wounded in the World War actually does seem interesting. AND THAT FUCKING JESSA SCENE OH MY GOD I’ve had enough with this anthology BRING BACK MY HEALTHY HEART.

also I propose two songs as the soundtrack of this novella (bc these songs have the World War feel to it):

Coldplay - Miracles (It’s a soundtrack to a World War movie called Unbroken and damn it’s really good!)

Lorde - Buzzcut Season

[☠tsukino☠ · Rating 2 out of 5]

GDL con Edicola & Libreria: le nostre passioni...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Se visto al netto del rapporto Tessa/Jem, questo racconto è carino.
Caterina è sempre interessante così come le sue connessioni con gli altri Herondale (perché le Fate ce l’hanno con loro? e lo sfondo della II Guerra Mondiale è intrigante.
Poi entrano in gioco loro due. E anche qui, la preoccupazione di Tessa per un Jem ferito non mi turba, anzi.
È la continua assenza/presenza di Will che mi irrita; questo continuo tentativo di inculcare nei lettori che questo triangolo è giusto e accettato.
Leggere che prima di Will e Tessa c’erano Jem e Tessa mi irrita anche di più, perché se siamo onesti, prima di Jem e Tessa c’erano ancora Will e Tessa.
Se Will non avesse allontanato Tessa per la maledizione, Jem e Tessa non ci sarebbero mai stati! Anche durante Jem/Tessa c’era Will, visto che la signorina rivolgeva ogni pensiero al parabatai del suo fidanzato con un intensità tale che il povero Jem se lo scorda. Non è mai stato sullo stesso piano. Ed è tutto scritto nero su bianco... dalla Clare!
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E ad essere ancora più onesti, l’amore fraterno tra Will e Jem, è superiore a tutto il resto. Non c’è uguali!
Per cui sarebbe ora di darci un taglio, perché vedere tirato in ballo in questo modo il povero Will, mi fa rischiare di tirare il libro giù dalla finestra e trattandosi di un kindle, mi spiacerebbe assai :P

[Mary's Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

This sort novella is my undoing.. Will, is that you?

[sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

So the plot is cool. Not a hugeee fan of Jem and Tessa to begin with. Basically it was just meh.

[dia💋 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[The Story Girl (Serenity) · Rating 4 out of 5]

"It was because he had a will fierce as starlight, burning in darkness and refusing to be put out."

4.5 stars

This was absolutely beautiful, and I feel like Cassandra Clare's writing really shines in these short stories. This story takes place in December 1940, three years after Will Herondale has died, and features Tessa and Catarina Loss. We see Tessa and Catarina work as nurses in war-torn London, and their paths cross with Jem after he has been injured with a killing blow from a fey after trying to inquire about a lost Herondale.

We finally learn who the lost Herondale was, and this paragraph will contain spoilers for that, so skip to the next paragraph if you want to find out for yourself. But I think there is a chapter called "The Lost Herondale" in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, so maybe everyone else already knows. But anyway, it's Tobias Herondale, and he is thought to have run from a battle where his fellow Shadowhunters ended up dying. But that story is wrong because Tobias was actually under a spell made to believe that his wife and unborn child were in danger. He ran to help them, but that broke the Law. The Clave couldn't find him so punished his wife instead by killing her. But Catarina was able to help birth the child, Ephraim, who she then raised as her own. One of his descendants was a boy named Roland who became a magician (mentioned in "Learn about Loss"). He was famous in the Downworld. He had a fight with Catarina and they parted badly. But he had really run away because he married a woman (faerie) who was a fugitive and went into hiding to protect her. They ended up having a child together. But that's still unclear because who is the lost Herondale: Tobias, Ephraim, or Roland? And is Roland Ephraim's son or grandson? Very confusing. I'm guessing Roland is the lost Herondale, but then what happened to Tobias?

Places mentioned: St. Paul's Cathedral, "lording over the city exactly as it had done for hundreds of years."

The next story, The Wicked Ones, will be out on September 11, takes place in Paris, and features Jace's mom Celine.

Blog: The Bookish Expedition and Instagram: @moonspree

1. Son of the Dawn (takes place in New York City 2000) ★★★★★
2. Cast Long Shadows (takes place in London 1901) ★★★★
3. Every Exquisite Thing (takes place in London 1901) ★★★★
4. Learn about Loss by Cassandra Clare and Kelly Link (takes place in Chattanooga 1930s) ★★★★
5. A Deeper Love by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
6. The Wicked Ones by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman (takes place in Paris)
7. The Land I Lost by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan
8. Through Blood, Through Fire by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman