Chain Of Thorns Spoilers - Blog Posts
Can someone give me a summary of Chain of Thorns, I’m not gonna be able to read it for a while.
What if: the reason chain of thorns has some strange writing is cause it was shortened in editing or simply pre-publishing, cause Cassie said it would be “A Very Long Book”, but it wasn’t longer than qoaad, and that could explain why the end had all those summaries about how people had reacted to things that happened
Spoiler: Cordelia killed Tatiana but Grace helped.
Okay, so looking back at the rest of the shadowhunter chronicles, someone has to kill their parent every three books (that aren’t story collections), e.g. Clary killing Valentine, Gabriel killing Benedict, Julian killing Andrew and Kieran killing the Unseelie King. Which means, that someone has to kill their parent in Chain of Thorns. And, obviously, the only way this makes sense in any is Grace/Jesse killing Tatiana.
Anyway maybe I’m going insane but I think it makes sense.
Christopher died, bitch-
I feel like screaming that at everyone. Saw one person say he didn't matter as much so obviously Cassie would kill him off.
me @ everyone rejoicing that their faves emerged victorious from chain of thorns
And he fell in love with Alastair who is very good with words (footnote: I love the way of speaking and the extensive vocabulary Cassie chose for him) but quite often manages to fuck up when using said words. Just because he knows how to string fancy words together so that they sound nice it doesn't mean that Alastair gets his meaning across very well.
They really complement each other
Can we talk about how Thomas keeps on saying he doesn’t have a gift for words and he wouldn’t be able to charm Alastair or anyone with his words but with Alastair, he manages to say the most simple yet most important things that Alastair needs to hear
THE FORESHADOWING!!!
Pierre Curie died young, she outlived him by several decades.
My heart 💔
Christopher and Grace did end up collaborating like the Curies and revolutionizing communication for shadowhunters
Whatever you do, don't imagine post-infirmary-scene Thomastair sound asleep, snuggled up in the narrow infirmary bed.
I'm a bit disappointed that Thomas's tattoo did not make an appearance in Chot...
I love how Thomas is an unreliable narrator in the sense that he never notices how other people react to his appearance because he is so self-conscious and has a rather low self-esteem regarding his physical appearance.
It takes Alastair to tell us that, apparently, people are ogling Tom because he looks so good.
On the other hand, we never actually see people reacting that way in any of the other character's POVs, and that can mean 2 things:
A) The others don't pay that much attention to Thomas because he is just kind-hearted Tom to them
B) Alastair in a way overinterprets other people's looks because to him, Thomas is so beautiful, how could other people not see it, how could they not want him?
Addition: In ChoG, Cordelia actually describes Tom as handsome, but not beautiful as James or Matthew (several times). Clearly, the Carstairs siblings have different tastes.
