Series
The Last Hours
Cassandra Clare · 3 novels · 1 short story · 2019–2023
Cassandra Clare's The Last Hours opens with Chain of Gold, set in 1903 London among the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, part of the wider Shadowhunter Chronicles that includes The Mortal Instruments. Continuing the saga's tradition of chapter epigraphs drawn from Victorian and Edwardian poetry, the trilogy concludes across Chain of Iron and Chain of Thorns.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Last Hours at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s1
- 2020s3
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:urban fantasydemonsbritish islesearly 20th centurytenseyoung adult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Chain of Irondarkest · most intense
- Chain of Goldbrightest · calmest