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The Last Hours · Book 2

Chain of Iron

by Cassandra Clare
Published
2 March 2021
Pages
592
ISBN-13
9781529500912
Type
novel
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Cover of Chain of Iron

About this book

Chain of Iron followed almost exactly a year later, on 2 March 2021, slightly shorter at 592 pages, as the conspiracy around the demonic Lightwarden deepens.

Key facts about Chain of Iron

Chain of Iron is a novel by Cassandra Clare. Readers have had it since 2 March 2021. It runs to 592 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Chain of Iron. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529500912 to find the main one.

Chain of Iron is book 2 of 4 in The Last Hours series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Chain of Gold (2020). A Sea Change is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 April 2026.

Additionally, Cassandra Clare writes The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and Magisterium, plus 4 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, A Sea Change is the latest published Cassandra Clare book on file, from 28 April 2026.

About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare built one of young-adult fantasy's largest ongoing universes almost by accident — she was writing entertainment journalism in New York before her 2007 debut, City of Bones, grew into The Mortal Instruments, the six-book series that introduced Shadowhunters: warriors who hunt demons in a modern world hiding in plain sight of angels, vampires and warlocks. See every Cassandra Clare book in order.

Its place in The Last Hours

Chain of Iron is book 2 in the The Last Hours series. It follows Chain of Gold. It is followed by Chain of Thorns. See the full The Last Hours reading order.

Set roughly a generation after The Infernal Devices, The Last Hours follows Cordelia Carstairs, the daughter of a disgraced Shadowhunter family, as she arrives in London hoping to restore her family's honor by joining a marriage of convenience to her childhood friend James Herondale -- son of Will and Tessa from The Infernal Devices. When a sinister figure called the Lightwarden begins turning ordinary weapons into instruments of a demonic plague, Cordelia, James, and their circle of friends (many of them…

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