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Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

26 reviews

sweetchocolatez's review against another edition

adventurous sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Torture

jem_carstairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

Well that was uncalled for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content and Pregnancy

augustinedreams's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I absolutely love Cassandra Clare. The Infernal Devices is my favourite series to date, and I loved the Mortal Instruments, it’s one of the series that got me into reading when I found out that Cassandra Clare was writing a trilogy of the series about the children of the Infernal Devices, I was so excited! All of these books in the series didn’t disappoint.  

Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few shorts weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith,  stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. Cordelia is feeling powerless so she flees to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, James’s parabatai. Cordelia is hoping to forget her sorrows in the city's glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped from the Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial. Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie’s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy and the Herondales find themselves under suspicion of dealings with demons. Belial’s plan is about to crash into the Shadowhunters of London like a deadly wave, one that will separate Cordelia, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves from help of any kind. Left alone in a shadowy London, they must face Belial’s deadly army. If Cordelia and her friends are going to save their city – and their families – they have to muster their courage, swallow their prides, and trust one another again. For if they fail, they will lose everything. 

Like with the second book, this book hurt my heart I didn’t like the tension or the love triangles or the secrets within this book. I like when the gang are all together and no one gets hurts, and we don’t lose anyone. Throughout this whole series, I just wanted for all of them to be happy and the fact that CHRISTOPHER – the golden retriever of the group didn’t get to go off and see how his experiments happened, just drove me up the wall and that Matthew ended up alone just broke me slightly. I still love the dynamic of Will and Tessa and the lightwoods. I love seeing the children being EXACTLY like their parents. It made me laugh especially the running joke of Herondales hating the ducks. And that the children disobey their parents, like their parents did.  

Cassandra Clare manages to do it Every. Single. Time - you don’t have to read any of the other series to know what’s going on, some immortal characters make an appearance, but you could read this series on its own without having to read The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices or The Eldest Curses. And I don’t know what I'm going to do now.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Kidnapping, and War

Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Lesbophobia

tisjenna's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual content

cecilielaugesen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book managed to somehow feel both incredibly drawn out and rather rushed at the same time.
It did not feel as thought through as her other books, and I was honestly really disappointed. The characters felt somewhat flat and their personalities seemed to differ from the other books.
The plot in this book was weird at best and nonexistent at worst, it felt like 400 pages of miscommunication and 300 pages of exaggerated fight scenes that seemed bland or boring.
I realize this all sounds incredibly negative, and of course there are good aspects and I definitely think it’s worth a read (if you set your expectations right beforehand).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol

caroline1999's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

After QoAaD (which was admittedly a good ending but also...weird), I was hesitant to start this, seeing as TLH had the potential to become my favourite TSC series — and it is now!

Yes, it's a very long book and the beginning was very long-winded. Especially the whole love triangle thing, imo, we could've done without.

I enjoyed most of the other plot times a lot, though. We have a visit to Edom again (another good place for CC to be weird) but it isn't weird! Yay. There are a lot of redemption arcs, mainly for Grace and Alastair, and all of those were all believable and well done.

There is one character who dies and it was just such a cheap cop out. I truly don't think last books need to have tragic deaths to become tragic, there was already enough tragedy in this book. It felt like a "gotcha!" moment but a really cheap one.

We got some cute moments for the TID generation but through smart plot lines there were good reasons for them to not be available for most of the drama — this was their kids time to save the world (or...just London).

Overall, I'm still really happy with how this story ended and it was a quite satisfying ending to the TID/TLH story 🤍

Also: Shoutout to our ret-con queen Esme Hardcastle, wtf

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Xenophobia, and War

Minor: Miscarriage, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

emsavors's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Outing, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail