A review by chaptersofamylea
Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

3.0

"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."

3 ⭐️

I’m sad. I feel underwhelmed and the second half of the book felt like a slog to get through. Was it a joy to be reunited with the characters? Yes. But it all felt a little repetitive and like reworked from her other books with maybe an added little bit. I felt no emotion to the event that I was expecting to lose my shit over. I also don’t think that particularly part was written well, it could’ve been so hard hitting but fell behind in everything else going on. Like the characters acted out of character by the event.

I will say that I was glad that the characters got closure at the end of the series, I just wish we had a better finale to the series. If the rest of the book was as fast paced as the first third with more layers to it, I think I would’ve loved it more.

Matthew Fairchild is King though, the babe deserves the world.

TWs: alcohol dependence, withdrawal, homophobia, corpse depictions, injury depictions, death
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