There are SO MANY AWESOME new characters to love in Cassandra Clare’s new Shadowhunters series, The Last Hours. We’ve rounded them up so you can meet these characters before you read Chain of Gold and learn how they are related to all of our favorite characters from the Infernal Devices!
Get to Know the Characters from Cassandra Clare’s Last Hours Series
Meet James Herondale
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James is Will and Tessa’s son and Lucie’s brother. He is best friends and parabatai with Matthew Fairchild. He loves reading, poetry, spending time at the Devil Tavern with Matthew, Christopher, and Thomas, and writing letters to Grace Blackthorn. He spends a good deal of time trying not to turn into a shadow. Seems like his demonic grandfather left him a bit of a genetic gift…
Meet Matthew Fairchild
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Matthew is the son of Charlotte (who is now the Consul!) and Henry and younger brother to the insufferable Charles. He is James’ parabatai and loves drinking and Oscar Wilde. He has an excellent Golden Retriever named Oscar, after Oscar Wilde.
Meet Lucie Herondale
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Lucie is Will and Tessa’s daughter and James’ sister. She plans on becoming parabatai with her best friend and penpal, Cordelia Carstairs. She is an aspiring writer, and has a special talent for seeing ghosts.
Meet Cordelia Carstairs
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Cordelia was born in Persia and has traveled the world. Now in London, she plans on becoming parabatai with Lucie. She is sister to Alastair Carstairs and she’s secretly in love with James Herondale. Her sword, Cortana, holds unique powers.
Meet Anna Lightwood
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Anna is Cecily and Gabriel’s daughter and Christopher’s daughter, making her cousin to James/Lucie and Thomas. She does what she likes and dresses how she wants and has broken half the hearts of half the young women of London with her looks and charm. She also loves clothes–if you need fashion advice, ask Anna.
Meet Christopher Lightwood
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Christopher is Cecily and Gabriel’s son, Anna’s brother, and cousin to James/Lucie and Thomas. He is obsessed with inventions and experiments and is the scientific one of the Merry Thieves (aka the fab foursome of Christopher, Thomas, James, and Matthew).
Meet Thomas Lightwood
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Thomas is Gideon and Sophie’s son and cousin to Christopher/Anna. Thomas loves history and spending time with Christopher in the lab. He is extremely tall and had quite a few adventures while abroad. He has two older sisters, Barbara and Eugenia.
Meet Jesse Blackthorn
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Jesse is a mysterious presence who isn’t visible to everyone in the book. His mother Tatiana Blackthorn and his sister Grace Blackthorn can always see him, and a few of the other characters can see him as well. He has green eyes and black hair, and is very pale, as he almost never sees sunlight.
Meet Alastair Carstairs
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Alastair is Cordelia’s older brother and son to Elias and Sona Carstairs. He was *the worst* to James and Matthew at the Shadowhunter Academy. He enjoys politics and collecting daggers.
Meet Grace Blackthorn
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Grace is the daughter of Tatiana Blackthorn (who is Gideon and Gabriel’s sister), making her cousin to Christopher and Thomas, although she’s been in Idris all this time and doesn’t know much about them. She met James while his family was vacationing in Idris and James is madly in love with her. Her brother, Jesse, met an untimely demise. Or did he…