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Saturday, 31 May 2014

Cassandra Clare's Complete Collection (For NOW... Muahahaha!)

So, as many of you know, the last book in the Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire, was released on May 27th. And while it was the end of TMI, we'll be seeing more of the Shadowhunter series soon, with the release of Lady Midnight, the first of the Dark Artifices in 2015. Cassandra Clare has also said that there will be a series called the Last Hours, which is set in 1903 and deals with the generation after the Infernal Devices. The series takes it's name from Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, and the direct quote (which is straight from Cassie's website) is this:

You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hours of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. — Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

The Last Hours series is to have three books, as with the Infernal Devices, called Chain of Thorns, Chain of Gold, and Chain of Iron, which is also a reference to Great Expectations.
("Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Great Expectations)

Cassie's website also says that the books will interconnect with The Dark Artifices trilogy as two separate trilogies that are also the stories of Blackthorns, Herondales, and Carstairs, much like TMI and The Infernal Devices interconnected despite taking place in different time periods and locations. The exact order of publication isn't decided yet. Lady Midnight will be the next Shadowhunter book coming out, though. And least ye forget, The Bane Chronicles, which is coming out November 11th in a complete collection. You can, however, buy the separate e-Books, but I'm waiting until they're released on paperback. There is The Shadowhunter's Codex as well. 

I, for one, am excited about the new books, though I am sad that The Mortal Instruments is over. Though, Cassie says that we might see some of the characters in the Dark Artifices, but they aren't main characters. Alas, either way, it's sure to be heart-stoppingly excellent.. 

Cassandra Clare's "The Mortal Instruments", "The Infernal Devices", and "The Shadowhunter's Codex" (though you can't see it very clearly) completed and proudly displayed on my bookshelf 









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