Chain of Thorns – Review
Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Cassandra Clare is back in force with The Last Hours. After a disappointing Dark Artifices, she more than made up for it with this series. I loved everything about it: the characters (Cordelia, James, OMG Matthew, Alastair and Thomas, Lucie and Jesse, Anna and Ari, and even Grace) both good and evil and those in between were well developed and awesome, the sarcastic bite and funny banter we got used to in Mortal Instruments is back, and the writing is fabulous as usual.
One of the things that didn’t work for me in The Dark Artifices series was the chaos of characters. There were so many and they were so obviously there to check an item in the diversity list that it just didn’t work for me. It just didn’t flow naturally. Things have changed with this series. Still a lot of characters and POVs as per Clare’s usual but very well managed and the diversity card is seamlessly and masterfully incorporated in the story, giving it a very natural flow.
Congrats Ms, Clare, you’ve done it again. Love it and highly recommend it for fantasy and romantasy lovers YA and adult.
P.S. – that bonus scene at the end was awesome.
