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Łańcuch z cierni by Cassandra Clare

16 reviews

mrmarshall591's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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, Child death, Pregnancy, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Outing, Kidnapping, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Miscarriage, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, and Confinement

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Grief, Blood, War, Alcoholism, Dysphoria, Vomit, Alcohol, Biphobia, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Homophobia, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Gore

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

Moderate: Sexual content, War, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Lesbophobia

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

aklovekorn's review against another edition

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Blood, Infidelity, Murder, Violence, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

aseel_reads's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, and Homophobia

lectricefeministe's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Miscarriage, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Vomit, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

sathyadgs95's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

“How much love people have denied themselves through the ages because they believed they didn't deserve it. As if the waste of love is not the greater tragedy.” (P. 195)

Too excited are two words that didn't even come close to how I felt about reading this book. A part of me refused to read it because I didn't want to finish this story. The first few chapters felt a bit slow compared to the previous two books, but as always with Clare I was hooked, so this wasn't a big problem when it came to reading. I loved the rest of the book so much, it's a perfect and beautiful ending to the story, the only thing that would change him is to know more about Matthew's life.

In short, the book felt pretty flat most of the time, or at least the first 400 pages, despite exciting or emotional situations happening, but I didn't feel that need to keep reading that happened to me with the two previous books. After half it became much more interesting, and I couldn't stop reading anymore; I really liked how everything developed, even the tragic parts. I was very happy with the outcome, although I feel that of the three books this was the one that was least up to scratch. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Torture, and Dementia

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, and Sexual content

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

Chain of Thorns is the third and final book in The Last Hours trilogy by Cassandra Clare set in her Shadowhunter's world.
Oh this book is so bittersweet for me. I have been reading this series ever since the third book came in The Mortal Instrumentsand to see how far it's come is astounding. I absolutely loved this book even though it did rip my heart out (thanks Cassandra Clare).
First off, I just adored these characters. I thought they were so well rounded and interesting to read from. They are the children of characters in Cassandra Clare's series The Infernal Devices and it's so interesting to see how their a little like their parents. They are wholly their own persons of course but you can see traits that will pop up in other books in this world. 
I just loved the characters so much. They all hold such a special place in my heart and it broke my heart seeing them go through so many trails and tribulations. Cassandra Clare doesn't hold her punches when it comes to these books and she really let them fly in this. i was so invested in this book that when I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about the characters and the plot. 
I though the plot was so interesting as it almost parallels another plot we see in another series in this world. I love how Cassandra Clare weaves these mysteries together and how we try to unravel them before the characters do. I was so invested in this story and wanted to know what was going to happen. I am so happy I got to read this book and this series as it truly owns my heart.
Overall, I loved this book and I can see this being one of those series I go back to time and again. I cannot recommend it enough. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Kidnapping