Chain of Thorns
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Average rating3.9
Love, duty and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they’ve ever known in the thrilling conclusion to the Last Hours trilogy.
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3 primary books#3 in The Last Hours
The Last Hours is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Cassandra Clare.
Series
23 primary books129 released books#21 in The Shadowhunter Chronicles
The Shadowhunter Chronicles is a 129-book series with 23 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan. The next book is scheduled for release on .
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I have a mixed feelings about this one. I guess, that I just feel a bit tired of this series. Well, the last book was especially long. I felt as if I was done with this characters in the middle of the story, but they still had so many things to do and I was not just here for that.
Overall there was so much drama in the series, but very little of it felt like it had real impact. All characters wished to be good characters so strongly, so any conflict just felt flat. Especially, I couldn't understand the need for secrets in the friend group. In regards to that, it was not so believable to me, that the adults, that were in the heart of things in the Infernal Devices would just stand by when all of this was going on.
Another thing that was quite weird is some of the attitude to certain things. In the Mortal Instruments some characters were gay and it was such a big no-no with shadowhunters. But here we are in last hours, just one hundred years prior and we have 5 openly gay characters and almost everyone is super okay with that. This feels like a general plothole for the timeline.
I've seen couple of reviews with disagreement about certain character death and I agree. That character was done dirty. Their death was just skipped over for the plot and it really felt like nobody cared so why should I?
Now I see, that I mostly concentrated in the negative things. It wasn't all that bad, and there were some really nice moments. I have no regrets reading this series.
Devoured the first 300-ish pages, and then it all started to go downhill as I got bored. I didn't want to pick it back up. It was a struggle to finish the last 100 pages. This book didn't need to be so long, and it all felt very underwhelming.
James and Cordelia never appealed to me and I wish there was more Lucie. I loved Lucie and Jesse's relationship way more than the main.
All in all: first two books in the trilogy were better than this one in my opinion, and I was left wondering why this book was pushed back so many times just to be left with this?
It's got bathtubs and guns but no mourners...no funerals — BUT I STILL LOVED IT
