The distinction between emotional and factual truth is important, as Cordelia asserts that fiction can be true in “soul” if not in fact such stories can be realer than real. However, the more ambiguous aspect of storytelling lies in stories’ deviation from the emotional truth. In the positive sense, creating a new reality means challenging stereotypes and presumptions, such as when Lucie reinvents Snow White in her own image, or when Cordelia uses the Persian tale of Dawud to assert her own identity. I’m happy to share that we finally have a list of all the songs Cassie listened to while she wrote yet another 1 New York Times bestseller. Stories allow Shadowhunters to experience and even create reality. For Cordelia, whose mother is Persian, these stories include the legend of Layla and Majnun and the poems of 12th-century writer Nizami Ganjavi. Whether fairy tales or romances or literary novels, stories are integral to the Shadowhunter reality. It follows the children of characters from The Infernal Devices, though you can certainly read it without knowing those books. The Last Hours is a Shadowhunters trilogy set in 1903 in Edwardian London. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. January 31 2023: Chain of Thorns, the last book of the Last Hours (TLH) series. Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. Characters in Chain of Gold frequently reference stories and books most commonly the literary staples a well-read person in Edwardian London would know, such as Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde. Chain of Gold is the first novel in a new trilogy that stars the Shadowhunters of Edwardian London.
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