James is troubled also because lately he has inadvertently been slipping into the underworld. Hunting demons is par for course for Shadowhunters, but this event is different for two reasons: One, this is the first demon attack in London for over a year and two, the demon seems to recognize James. In the present day-1903-Lucie’s older brother, James, and his friends-Matthew Fairchild and Christopher and Thomas Lightwood-defeat a demon in a London alley. Lucie is rescued by an unknown boy she next meets only six years later. Told in the third-person omniscient narration, the story begins with a flashback to 1897: Ten-year-old Lucie falls into a pit in the forest near her family home in Idris, the secret country of the Shadowhunters. This study guide follows the 2020 Walker Books, London edition.
The plot itself carries some resemblance to that of Great Expectations, echoing the story of a young man hopelessly in love with a beautiful, cold young woman confined by her evil-tempered guardian. All the chapter titles in Chain of Gold are taken from poetry of the Victorian and Edwardian era, and the book title alludes to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1860-61). Shadowhunters also prevent Downworlders-earth’s other supernatural beings consisting of warlocks, faeries, werewolves, and vampires-from attacking the mundanes.ĭrawing heavily on her itinerant childhood and love for reading, the author always represents diverse cultures and sexual orientations in her texts, and she includes rich historical and literary references. The Shadowhunters’ mandate is to protect the unseen world and mundanes from demons, who are destructive inter-dimensional beings. Chief among these beings are Nephilim, or Shadowhunters, a group of humans with angelic blood. In the Shadowhunter universe, supernatural beings coexist with regular humans, known as “mundanes.” The supernatural beings live in the unseen world and include creatures drawn from various mythologies.
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