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Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

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emsavors's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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aklovekorn's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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bellebookcorner's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“I rather think love is something like a book written just for us, a sort of holy text it is given to us to interpret.”

Chain of Thorns serves as a good conclusion to The Last Hour Trilogy!
I thought for sure this gonna be the end of the Shadowhunter series, turns out this series is not a goodbye and there’s gonna be one last series in the Shadowhunter universe!

I love getting back to these characters – Cordelia, James, Matthew, Thomas, Christopher, Lucie, Jesse, etc!
I could definitely see them grow from the first time we met them (on book 1) until the end of this trilogy, especially Alastair and Grace. I absolutely love Alastair new self and his connection with Thomas. Grace is also proving to be a better character as well.

As for the matters of the love triangle romance, I know someone will get their heart broken but I was surprised by how well this person handles it. I felt happy for him at the end, as he finally started to heal and I really hope the best for him cause he really deserves it.

“You ought to be adored above all things, for you are wonderful. You ought to have someone's whole heart.”

While I thoroughly enjoy reading this book, I thought some parts are a bit dragging. I feel the length of this book could have been shorten if the characters would just be honest and talk to each other!
Moreover, some events toward the ending happens too fast.

One of the characters dies!! But I only felt sad for just like a moment then my focus was replaced with James being taken by Belial to Edom. It just happens too fast and the feeling of loss wasn’t explored further as the plot has to continue to the next stage.

The ending is quite satisfying, the last few chapters are quite intense with the preparation towards the last battle with Belial – the villain. It ended happily for some characters, but for some it’s not so I say it’s a bit of a bitter sweet ending.

Overall, it’s been a great journey with these loveable characters. I love their friendship bond with one another and of course with Will's humor which liven up the story.
I’m looking forward to read the next trilogy in the Shadowhunter series!

⚠️ 𝐓𝐖: Alcoholism, death, addiction, violence and grief

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aseel_reads's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first two hundred pages were so hard to get through, super boring. Then the plot picked up but the overall ending was just meh. I absolutely hated the death, that was my favourite character. Overall, just super disappointed in this series, I had such high hopes too.

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ginbat's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

usually i love the shadowhunter chronicles, just couldn't get behind this one for some reason. the last fifth of the book was just kind of a let down. everything seemed... too easy? it felt in many ways that the book was almost solely to connect it to The Dark Artifices and not enough to it's own trilogy. but maybe im just growing out of YA

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deedireads's review against another edition

3.0

emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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TL;DR REVIEW:

Chain of Thorns was a fine conclusion to a fine trilogy — entertaining, yes, but definitely not my favorite set of Shadowhunters books. The trilogy-long miscommunication trope was too much for me.

For you if: You like YA fantasy books with character D R A M A.

FULL REVIEW

Chain of Thorns is the third and final book in The Last Hours trilogy, which represents books 13–15 of Cassandra Clare’s (core) set of Shadowhunter novels. They take place a few years after The Infernal Devices and follow Cordelia Carstairs (wielder of Cortana) and James Herondale (Tessa and Will’s son).

I mainly read this trilogy because, well, I can’t get 12 books into a universe and then just stop lol. But while these books were certainly entertaining — Cassandra Clare knows how to write a good central mystery — it was my least favorite Shadowhunters series so far. (The Dark Artifices reigns supreme. IYKYK.)

Thing is, The Last Hours is one big (BIG! These books are like 800 pages long! Where is her editor!) miscommunication trope. Throw a love triangle in for good measure. They are about D-R-A-M-A, but it was just too drawn out for my taste. I understand why she did it, given the book’s central theme about letting others in and not carrying a burden on your own, because when you hurt yourself you hurt the ones you love — but still. It stopped being fun for me at like, the end of book one.

As for this book in particular, I thought it was better than book two, but it still fell a little flat for me. There was a character death that didn’t feel like it was given enough weight, James made me roll my eyes, and Cordelia got frustrating. The ending was good, but I don’t know if it was I’ve-been-waiting-three-books-for-this-and-I-hope-it-saves-the-trilogy-for-me good.

It sounds like I hated these books, lol, which I didn’t. They were fast-paced and entertaining and kept my eyes glued to the page. But I know Cassandra Clare can (and has) given us better.

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solouncapitulomas's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this was underwhelming to say the least, I mean...it was nothing compared to previous shadow hunters third books, city of glass? letal, queen of air and darkness? soul devouring and I won't even mention the other one bc y'all know

I guess I was expecting so much more and as you can see it took me almost two month to read this one and I usually read tsc books so fucking fast, three stars bc of herondaisy (my beloveds) and all the other characters who I truly love (specially my baby kit)

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meliemelo's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A pretty good conclusion to the trilogy, although

what grudge does Cassandra Clare hold against the Lightwood kids specifically?

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I'm not a big fan of communication issues, but I did appreciate how well things were handled with James, and even the fact that there was an aftermath to what happened with Grace (too many novels, movies, TV shows would simply gloss over it).

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tiana_king's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

If the miscommunication trope hadn’t been milked for half the book it would’ve been a knock out. But once that was sorted out things were epic! I’m sad to see the series go and enjoyed it immensely.

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serena_hien's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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