Chain Of Thorns - Blog Posts

Lucie writing about Cordelia:

I JUST FINISHED CHAIN OF THORNS AND OMFG GUYS I CANT.

anyways here’s the merry thieves as marauders (or the other way round idk)

Thomas -> James

Matthew -> Sirius

James -> Remus

Christopher -> Peter

And as an added bonus, the love of my life, Alastair would be the other love of my life, Regulus.

(I REALLY wanted James herondale to be James potter for the lolz but they’re just don’t give off similar vibes in my humble opinion)

YESSS

I don't know why but ever since I started reading SOBH, I hv a feeling that Thomas isn't going to survive Chain of Thorns. Then I saw unidentified snippet 6 and all I can think about is Thomas

And also current day lightwoods because well Kit Lightwoods is dead and i hate her for it

Okay but Cassie can we please get an updated family tree?

I need to know what path was taken to get to the modern day Fairchilds.

So what is the name of the blackthorn sword?

Like Cassie said that we would find out in ChoT but i just don't remember anything about it??

If anyone knows pls do tell

The full Shadowhunter family tree, as we currently know it

| Red line = romantic affiliation

| Yellow line = siblings

| Green line = parent/child relationship

| Dotted line = relationships we haven't seen happen yet but exist

| Dark grey boxes = dead characters

| Blue boxes = Immortal characters

Petition to start calling Lucie Herondale the Ghost Queen

Can someone give me a summary of Chain of Thorns, I’m not gonna be able to read it for a while.

I keep forgetting Chain of Thorns is released end of January 😭😭😭

step aside james herondale she’s MY wife

why couldn't it just be that jem saw Jessie get belial's marks stripped off of him and that's what he was talking about when he told Emma about it

I was reading the "Whos gonna die in cot" theories when i remembered something about the epilogue of clockwork princess.

When Tessa is remembering Wills death (sorry, ik we all hate to remember this but hang in there) and she was thinking of all the family they had. And so i read it back, and found this

Um, sorry, but uhhh WHAT HAPPENED TO THOMAS ??? Like is this how Cassandra is breaking the news to us, does thomas die ? PLS NOO, do Thomas and Alastair ever get together. WAHT HAPPENS TO HIM ???

OMG ALSO "Cecy's blue eyed boys" ... kit ? Cass pls dont take him. Both Anna and Alexander have blue eyes, and ik Anna is explained as a girl, she could have changed to being seen as a male, i mean we all know what she does, but if one of the "blue eyed boys" is anna, and the other alexander, THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO KIT ?? He has brown eyes, does he die ?? Cass pls dont do this to us.

Wow, so in conclusion, both THOMAS and CHRISTOPHER are either not at Will's death (which is weird, like y would they not be yk) OR THEYRE DEAD. WE ALL KNOW THAT CASS SAID ITS AT LEAST ONE CHARACTER THAT DIES. OMG IM NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO SLEEP TONIGHT.

thanks cass.

What if: the reason chain of thorns has some strange writing is cause it was shortened in editing or simply pre-publishing, cause Cassie said it would be “A Very Long Book”, but it wasn’t longer than qoaad, and that could explain why the end had all those summaries about how people had reacted to things that happened

I think Alastair is going to die in cot because of so many reasons, but also this unidentified snippet:

He spends so much time convincing Thomas he’s not in love with him (or at least giving Thomas that impression) and it makes sense for one of them to die because it would be utterly heartwrenching.

I very much hope I’m wrong though

CHAIN OF THORNS COVER REVEAL

I physically squealed and jumped up and down when the ACTUAL cover of this long awaited book was shown. How I wish the book would be published now. I mean: the cover is absolutely gorgeous

But I do feel like it’s a bit cheesy

After reading this, my immediate thought was James Bond’s line in Casino Royale:

“I have no armour left, you’ve stripped it of me”

okay, I’m rereading chain of gold and the foreshadowing is unbelievable! it is one of my favourite books, but I’ve only read the entirety of it twice so far (because it just feels wrong to reread it. I don’t want to discover mistakes or something that’ll make me like it a bit less…(it’s an entire thing))

Anyways: all that’s happening is me just constantly needing chain of thorns to be released so that I can live in peace from the mental hell that is the fact that it’s almost a year til chain of thorns

Spoiler: Cordelia killed Tatiana but Grace helped.

Okay, so looking back at the rest of the shadowhunter chronicles, someone has to kill their parent every three books (that aren’t story collections), e.g. Clary killing Valentine, Gabriel killing Benedict, Julian killing Andrew and Kieran killing the Unseelie King. Which means, that someone has to kill their parent in Chain of Thorns. And, obviously, the only way this makes sense in any is Grace/Jesse killing Tatiana.

Anyway maybe I’m going insane but I think it makes sense.

Christopher died, bitch-

I feel like screaming that at everyone. Saw one person say he didn't matter as much so obviously Cassie would kill him off.

me @ everyone rejoicing that their faves emerged victorious from chain of thorns

Sounds good.

Rereading The Last Hours (chronologically) before Chain of Thorns comes out

Hi!

I’m witchlightdreams and I’m planning to reread the entirety of The Last hours including online extras and side stories in other companion books of the Shadowhunter and I made a plan so everyone can join me. 💜

The Shadowhunter wiki has a very concise timeline of the stories, but it doesn’t include the online Extras and snippets that aren’t canon. So I put together a longer list that has all extras (excluding a few super short snippets) together. This is probably not for people who read TLH for the first time though, since a few of the short stories and extras contain spoilers.

I already asked people if they would be interested in a book club to reread TLH and I got much positive feedback. I thought long about how to achieve a communal book club so I had the idea of just making a hashtag that hasn’t been used yet to share our thoughts on the current chapter, post art, etc. What do you guys think of #TLH reread challenge?

I’ve made a plan in which order I will read the The Last hours again before the big finale and everyday I will post something about the reading section of the day, life-blog about my thoughts while reading, post art and reblog other stuff from the hashtag, so if you want to keep up-to-date and join the book club, you can either follow this blog or the hashtag or just DM me if you want to join the book club but don’t want to post yourself. I would be very interested to read this communally, so if you want to read at the same time as me, please use the tag or tell me directly. Of course you can also join later or skip the extras at the beginning entirely.

Of course no one has to follow my recommended plan, you should always read in your own time and find joy in reading. I just made this for myself and everyone who wants to read parallel with me. I’m trying to keep every daily section under 50 pages and always between 25-45 pages, but in the beginning it might not be possible, especially with the extra stories, since they don’t have page numbers and because short stories are usually longer than chapters.

If you want resources where to find the extra stories, I made a second post for that and tagged it with our book club tag.

In case you don’t own the companion books or don’t want to read the short stories because they’re too long, that’s not a problem! The Shadowhunter wiki has a good summary of those so you don’t have knowledge gaps!

Happy reading!

witchlightdreams

TLH reread challenge plan:

Colour explanation:

Online Extras

Magnus Bane Chronicles Short Stories

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy Snippets

Ghosts of the Shadow Market Short Stories

Actual The Last Hours Novel

Pre-TLH

24.12.22

• The Whitechapel Fiend 1888

(Christmas eve)

• A Lightwood Christmas Carol 1889

25.12.22

• Lucy and Ghosts 1897

• Days Past: Lucie & Cordelia 1897

• Cirenworth Hall 1898

26.12.22

• The Anniversary 1899

27.12.22

• Nothing But Shadows 1899

28.12.22

• The Devil Tavern 1900

• The City of Bones 1900

• Days Past: Christopher 1901

29.12.22 (53 pages)

• Cast Long Shadows 1901

30.12.22 (60 pages)

• Every Exquisite Thing 1901

31.12.22 (circa 39 pages)

• The Midnight Heir 1903 (January)

• Letter from Lucie to Cordelia (directly before Chain of Gold)

⭐️Chain of Gold⭐️

Part one

01.01.23 (39 pages)

Days Past: 1897

1 Better Angels

Days Past: Idris, 1899

02.01.23 (41 pages)

2 Ashes of Roses

3 This Living Hand

03.01.23 (30 pages)

Days Past: Cirenworth Hall, 1900

4 Half Sick of Shadows

04.01.23 (32 pages)

5 Fallen With the Night

Days Past: Idris, 1900

05.01.23 (50 pages)

6 No More of Mirth

Days Past: Idris, 1900

7 Fall of Songs

06.01.23 (37 pages)

8 No Strange Land

9 Deadly Wine

Days Past: Paris, 1902

07.01.23 (27 pages)

10 Loyalty Binds

08.01.23 (45 pages)

11 Talismans and Spell

12 The End of It

09.01.23 (48 pages)

13 Blue Ruin

14 Among Lions

Part Two

10.01.23 (42 pages)

15 The Whispering Room

16 Legion

11.01.23 (25 pages)

Days Past: Cirenworth Hall, 1900

17 The Hollow Sea

Days Past: London, Grosvenor Square, 1901

12.01.23 (47 pages)

18 Darkness Stirs

19 All Places Hell

13.01.23 (28 pages)

20 Less Than Gods

Days Past: Cirenworth Hall, 1898

14.01.23 (45 pages)

21 Burn

22 The Rules of Engagement

15.01.23 (32 pages + extras)

23 No One Who Loves

Epilogue: Chiswick House, London

Between CoG and CoI:

15.01.23 (32 pages + extras)

• Letter from Ragnor to Magnus (during Chain of Gold)

• The Letter Game

• One Must Always Be Careful of Books

⛓️Chain of Iron⛓️

Part one

15.01.23 (32 pages + extras)

London:East End

16.01.23 (46 pages)

1 The Bright Web

2 All That Turns

17.01.23 (27 pages)

Grace: 1893-1896

3 Bitter and Sweet

18.01.23 (40 pages)

4 A Good Name

5 The King Is Dead

19.01.23 (41 pages)

London: 48 Curzon Street

6 Things To Come

Grace: 1896

7 Tread Lightly

20.01.23 (44 pages)

London: Finch Lane

8 To Bring a Fire

9 The Scars Remaining

21.01.23 (32 pages)

London: Shoe Lane

10 The Damned Earth

Grace: 1897

22.01.23 (48 pages)

11 Crowns and Pounds and Guineas

London: Shepherd Market

12 Requiem

23.01.23 (41 pages)

Grace: 1899

13 The Wintry Win

14 The Flaming Forge

24.01.23 (39 pages)

15 Walk by Daytime

16 Dark Breaks to Dawn

25.01.23 (29 pages)

London: Golden Square

Part Two

17 Prophet of Evil

26.01.23 (39 pages)

18 Goblin Market

19 Thine Own Palace

27.01.23 (35 pages)

20 Equal Temper

Grace: 1899-1900

21 Hell's Own Track

28.01.23 (37 pages)

22 Heart of Iron

Grace: 1903

23 A Silken Thread

29.01.23 (45 pages)

24 He Shall Rise

25 Archangel Ruined

30.01.23 (49 pages)

26 Older Than Gods

27 Wake With Wings

31.01.23 (42 pages)

Grace: 1900

28 No Wise Man

29 A Broken Mirror

Epilogue

01.02.23

🌹Chain of Thorns🌹

If we enjoy this book club I will continue the challenge for Chain of Thorns, but since we don’t know the chapters and their length yet, I can’t plan this yet.

Hard agreement

a rant about ariadne bridgestock’s representation in cassandra clare’s chain of iron

If you haven’t read the book yet, do not proceed. This post may be subject to criticism, but these are just my views.

ISN’T SHE BEAUTIFUL I LOVE HER 

Ariadne Bridgestock, or rather, Kamala Joshi, is one of the only Indian characters written about in TSC. We get to know that Kamala was adopted by the Inquisitor, Maurice Bridgestock, and his wife, when she was only seven as she’d been orphaned and the other family in the Mumbai(Bombay) Institute wouldn’t take her in due to bad blood between their families. 

She had the potential to be a powerful Shadowhunter, with beauty as well as a kindhearted, gentle nature. Her adoptive parents loved her enough to nurture her talents and show her off, but they changed her name. They changed her name and refused to acknowledge her Indian heritage. In that case, they would never dream of accepting Kamala as a lesbian woman.

This was at a time when India was a colony of the British. Britishers had taken over the country from 1757, and had no love for the Indians. Indians were tortured and revolted for years, until finally India gained independence in 1947. Imagine being a young girl in British India, adopted by British shadowhunters with a powerful position in the Clave, but having your entire childhood wiped out just because of your nationality. Imagine being a closeted lesbian in the 19th-20th centuries, and adding the fear of being rejected by society to all the above. Kamala does not deserve a partner who does not understand why she cannot reveal her sexuality to her parents. Kamala does not deserve to have her childhood hidden, does not deserve to be afraid of society anymore. 

Being a bisexual Indian myself, I have always admired her. If in Chain of Thorns, we do not see her speaking Hindi (for she must have learnt it in her childhood), wearing a saree or a salwar and telling her friends (I like to imagine her with Alastair, Eugenia and Grace in a friends group) about the things she remembers from India, I will take it personally. We see the Carstairs siblings embrace their Persian heritage proudly (even after Alastair suffered years of racism and bullying for it) and converse in Farsi – we MUST see Kamala embrace her Indian heritage as well. Cassandra must give Kamala the appreciation and respect which she deserves. Thank you for listening to my rant.

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