The Last Hours
Just finished reading "Chain of Thorns - The Last Hours Book Three" by Cassandra Clare.
With all the hoopla around age appropriate material in public school libraries, and my own past experience with my own elementary school teachers and librarians trying to inappropriately influence, and in a few cases taking my books away until my parents intervened - yes reading Japanese fairy tales, science fiction, mysteries, historical, and non-fiction science books presented dangerous non-conformity back in the 1960s and 1970 in the minds of some idiotic teachers in the Camp Lejeune School System - I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that because of the themes and forthright sexuality of the characters in all of Clare's Shadowhunter novels, that none of them are appropriate for children or teenagers under 16. Clare also has a rather deceptive way of portraying gay sex in her novels. With heterosexual couples she will describe the full act up to and including penetration and afterwards. She limits her descriptions of gay sex to touching and kissing and leaving it to your imagination, but afterwards implying through her writing that all that "gay stuff" was just kissing and naked touching.
I'm sure the Shadowhunters novels are on banned booklists somewhere due to their themes of children fighting against demons - and sometimes dying violent deaths - and for the simmering sexuality of the characters.
The conclusion of "The Last Hours" trilogy finds James and Cordelia battling against their personal demons as well as the demons Lilith and Belial.
Belial's desire to rule London and turn it into his own hellish kingdom on Earth is unleashed as he unleashes an army of dead Iron Brothers and Iron Sisters whose dead bodies have been possessed by demons, against the Shadowhunters. The final step in his plan is possess his grandson Jame's body.
Cordelia meanwhile is struggling with her marriage to James, not knowing that he had been be-spelled with a bracelet given to him by the now repentant Grace - who was under her mother's influence. Cordelia must also figure out a way to free herself from being Lilith's paladin.
And in-between there is enough sexual longing, self-doubt, and shame over being gay that must be resolved in the heat of combat.
Yes, it's definitely an epic conclusion to this trilogy, and it will be curious to see where Clare goes with her next Shadowhunters novel. She does have a new series coming out later this year.
Epic conclusions! Unexpected Deaths! Happily Ever Afters!
Highly Recommended.
Four Stars because I suspect that Clare isn't being true to the agenda she's promoting.
https://www.amazon.com/Chain-Thorns-3...
With all the hoopla around age appropriate material in public school libraries, and my own past experience with my own elementary school teachers and librarians trying to inappropriately influence, and in a few cases taking my books away until my parents intervened - yes reading Japanese fairy tales, science fiction, mysteries, historical, and non-fiction science books presented dangerous non-conformity back in the 1960s and 1970 in the minds of some idiotic teachers in the Camp Lejeune School System - I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that because of the themes and forthright sexuality of the characters in all of Clare's Shadowhunter novels, that none of them are appropriate for children or teenagers under 16. Clare also has a rather deceptive way of portraying gay sex in her novels. With heterosexual couples she will describe the full act up to and including penetration and afterwards. She limits her descriptions of gay sex to touching and kissing and leaving it to your imagination, but afterwards implying through her writing that all that "gay stuff" was just kissing and naked touching.
I'm sure the Shadowhunters novels are on banned booklists somewhere due to their themes of children fighting against demons - and sometimes dying violent deaths - and for the simmering sexuality of the characters.
The conclusion of "The Last Hours" trilogy finds James and Cordelia battling against their personal demons as well as the demons Lilith and Belial.
Belial's desire to rule London and turn it into his own hellish kingdom on Earth is unleashed as he unleashes an army of dead Iron Brothers and Iron Sisters whose dead bodies have been possessed by demons, against the Shadowhunters. The final step in his plan is possess his grandson Jame's body.
Cordelia meanwhile is struggling with her marriage to James, not knowing that he had been be-spelled with a bracelet given to him by the now repentant Grace - who was under her mother's influence. Cordelia must also figure out a way to free herself from being Lilith's paladin.
And in-between there is enough sexual longing, self-doubt, and shame over being gay that must be resolved in the heat of combat.
Yes, it's definitely an epic conclusion to this trilogy, and it will be curious to see where Clare goes with her next Shadowhunters novel. She does have a new series coming out later this year.
Epic conclusions! Unexpected Deaths! Happily Ever Afters!
Highly Recommended.
Four Stars because I suspect that Clare isn't being true to the agenda she's promoting.
https://www.amazon.com/Chain-Thorns-3...
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