I pretty much love anything written by Cassandra Clare, so I had already decided I was going to love this one before I even bought it. Plus, it was the new one in the Shadowhunter series and I needed a fix before Wicked Power.
And I was, in fact, right, I absolutely loved this book. The new characters were hilarious and relatable (even if they were living a hundred years ago) and the plot was enthralling.
Sometimes in a long series, you start to know the author’s style, therefore you start guessing the plot. When that happens, the entire series seems to lose its charm, but that did not happen here. I knew a little about the plot before, because of Ghosts of The Shadow Market: it was going to revolve around Tessa’s demonic father. Even knowing that I just could not figure out where, when, how, and why he was going to be involved. Cassandra Clare was even able to explain the reason for Tessa’s entire birth (which I mean was probably really hard to bring about.). Even now that I know who Tessa’s demonic father is, there are still plots that Clare left us with at the end of the book that are unfinished.
The characters were perfect, maybe because we have known bits of them since at least The Bane Chronicles, but they didn’t feel exactly like the characters that I had to learn to love, they had changed, grown and gone through things we didn’t see, so there was still a certain mystery to them, something more to find out about them. We just had a taste and now we finally get to eat the whole thing.
It wouldn’t be a Shadowhunter series without a complicated romance or twenty complicated romances. Honestly, I did not see them coming, some we already knew about like Jesse and Lucie and Anna and Ariadne, but the two others, both with three characters and complicated, caught me completely off guard. I find myself shipping some and yearning to know what will happen.
A lot of the time with big series you need to start at the beginning of it all to understand, but with Shadowhunters the great thing is you can start in any book without particularly missing anything important to that book’s storyline. Chain of Gold from the Last Hour series is no different. You would understand some things more if you read the Infernal Devices, but you don’t miss anything substantial of the Last Hour series, everything is explained in the book.
Cassandra Clare has an ability for submerging us in her worlds that amazes me every time. I never get tired of the Shadow World. This one was no exception; I would a hundred percent recommend this book to anyone.
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