The Last Hours

The Last Hours is a trilogy written by Cassandra Clare and is the sequel series to The Infernal Devices. It is the fourth series published in The Shadowhunter Chronicles, but is the second chronologically. Its export rights were acquired by Walker Books.

Set in Edwardian London, Will and Tessa Herondale's children James and Lucie are continuing the fight against evil alongside their parabatais, Cordelia Carstairs and Matthew Fairchild, and more offspring of The Infernal Devices characters.

Books

Titles

• Chain of Gold
• Chain of Iron
• Chain of Thorns

Audiobook editions

• Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, and Chain of Thorns are all narrated by Finty Williams.

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Trivia

• The series and book titles were taken from the Charles Dickens' classic novel Great Expectations, of which the series is a loose form of retelling (with there being parallels among characters: James like Pip and Grace as Estella (with many readers assuming that Cordelia is like Biddy in the situation), Matthew like Herbert, and Tatiana as Miss Havisham).
• According to Cassandra Clare: "The books will interconnect with The Dark Artifices trilogy as two separate trilogies that are also the stories of the Blackthorns, Herondales and Carstairs, much like The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices interconnected despite taking place in different time periods and locations." The story is also meant to connect in some way with The Wicked Powers series specifically.
• The series was originally set to be released alternately with The Dark Artifices, before Chain of Gold was delayed until after The Dark Artifices finale.
• Cassandra Clare released ten short stories (vignettes) revolving around the characters from The Last Hours, including Matthew Fairchild, Thomas Lightwood, James Herondale, Lucie Herondale, Cordelia Carstairs, Anna Lightwood, and more. They were released online to be read for free each month leading up to the release of Chain of Gold.
• Between the initial conception of the series and its publication, a large number of details were changed or removed; such as: Cordelia and Alastair are no longer white, Charlotte and Henry don't have young daughters, a baby was supposed to need adopting, the ending was originally much more tragic, and even the character's personalities were different. Also, Woolsey Scott, Camille Belcourt, Catarina Loss, and Church were all going to appear and we were meant to learn how Belial impregnated Elizabeth Gray despite not being able to walk the Earth.