


We reunite with James on the eve of his bachelor party as he prepares to enter into a (fake) marriage with Cordelia, since he’s still desperately in love with Grace (or so he thinks, because he’s STILL wearing that bracelet nobody likes). James HerondaleĪh James, our favorite dark-haired, beautiful and broody Londoner. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD for Chain of Iron! 1.

Need a Chain of Goldrecap too? Find one here! The Chain of Iron Character Recap You Need Before Reading Chain of Thorns Originally designed as a five-book series the sequence so far includes The Iron Trial, The Copper Gauntlet and The Bronze Key with The Silver Mask due for publication in October 2017.If you’re like me, you could not be more ready for Chain of Thorns to come out January 31! But before we read the final book in Cassandra Clare’s Last Hours series, we need to remember what happened to all our favorite characters in Chain of Iron.

She has announced that she will conclude the overarching series with two further trilogies: The Last Hours and The Wicked Powers.Īdditionally, Cassandra Clare has teamed up with fellow fantasy author Holly Black to write the Magesterium Series set in an underground school where mages train apprentices to control the elements. Clare followed this up with The Infernal Devices series (a prequel trilogy set in Victorian England: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess) and The Dark Artifices Trilogy which includes Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows.Ĭlare has added to the series with various standalone novels and short stories, expanding the world of the Shadowhunters: The Bane Chronicles and Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. The book series include the original six-volume Mortal Instruments series (In reading order: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire). The series tells the story of characters wrapped up in the world of the Shadowhunters (or Nephalim), half-angels who guard the world from demons on behalf of the Angel Raziel.Ĭassandra Clare’s extraordinary world now encompasses three novel series, two short-story collections and four graphic novels as well as having inspired both a film and a popular television series. Born to American parents in Tehran, much of Cassandra’s Clare’s early life was spent travelling the world, experiences which later inspired her vivid and absorbing fantasy writing.Ĭlare wrote her first novel, City of Bones, in 2004 the book went on to become the first in the phenomenally successful Mortal Instruments series.
