The Last Hours: Chain of Thorns

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James Herondale — the man Cordelia is married to and grandson of the Prince of Hell Belial who struggles with his demonic abilities, and only recently realized his true feelings for Cordelia and Grace. The rest of the crew big refuse (duh), and a fight breaks out. In this fight, Christopher is injured, and he dies. What even happens in this trilogy? I have no idea how a trilogy from such a good author, who btw wrote The Infernal Devices (TID), can go so wrong.

You’ve done well by me, at least, dearie, Lilith said, and Cordelia had woken up with a scream that echoed in her head for minutes after. I could never hate you, for all my hate is reserved for myself. I have none left over for anyone else."

A woman seated at a nearby café, wearing a hat laden with ostrich plumes and silk roses, glanced from Matthew to Cordelia and smiled—approving, Cordelia assumed, of young love. Months ago, Cordelia would have blushed; now she simply smiled. What did it matter if people thought the wrong things about her? Any girl would be happy to have Matthew as a suitor, so let passersby imagine whatever they wanted. That was how Matthew managed things, after all—not caring at all what others thought, simply being himself, and it was astonishing how it allowed him to move easily through the world. I suppose. I have always thought everyone deserves a second chance. We are each given only one life. We cannot get another one. We must live with the mistakes we have made."

SEEING THE GRACETOPHER MOMENTS ohmygod they just gave me so much life - which is also another reason why I felt SO robbed when Cassie just kills off Christopher??? like what the hell you really pulled that??? an absolute menace I could kill something. Their scenes were what I was looking forward to most from COT and they served so well😭😭 Christopher was the most understanding and reasonable person of everyone in this book I swear. and Grace being able for the first time to be treated with so much kindness by Christopher? yall HE LITERALLY CHOSE TO VISIT HER IN THE SILENT CITY TO HAVE THEIR OWN XMAS PARTY WITH CHAMPAGNE THEN GO TO WILL'S CHRISTMAS PARTY BECAUSE HE DIDNT WANT HER TO BE ALONE??? IF THAT DOESNT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HOW WHOLESOME THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS THEN IDK WHAT IS. Meanwhile, Matthew and James are just chillin’ in Edem, and Matthew is suffering from alcohol withdrawals. The current group of Merry Thieves ends by digging a grave so that they can bury Jesse’s coffin (and symbolically bury items that represent things they are letting go of). When she’d first awakened, here in the strange bed that smelled like old straw, she’d heard a voice—Jesse’s voice—and she had tried to call out, to let him know she was conscious. But before she could, exhaustion had swept over her like a cold gray wave. An exhaustion she had never felt before, or even imagined, deep as a knife wound. Her fingertip grip on alertness had slipped, tumbling her into the darkness of her own mind, where time swayed and lurched like a ship in a storm, and she could hardly tell whether she was awake or asleep.The darkness was not only the interior of her mind. She had thought it was, at first—the familiar darkness that came before sleep brought the vivid colors of dreams. But this darkness was a place. Miss Carstairs has chosen perfectly for her coloring. When you step into a room, mademoiselle, you will appear as the flame of a candle, drawing eyes to you like moths.”