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The Last Hours · Book 3

Chain of Thorns

by Cassandra Clare
Published
31 January 2023
Pages
752
ISBN-13
9798885788335
Type
novel
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Cover of Chain of Thorns

About this book

Chain of Thorns closed the trilogy on 31 January 2023, its longest volume by far at 752 pages, resolving the Lightwarden plot two years after the second book.

Key facts about Chain of Thorns

Chain of Thorns is a novel by Cassandra Clare. Readers have had it since 31 January 2023. It runs to 752 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Chain of Thorns. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9798885788335 to find the main one.

Chain of Thorns is book 3 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 Thorns is book 3 in the The Last Hours series. It follows Chain of Iron. It is followed by A Sea Change. 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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