A summary of the Valentine’s Day live with Cassie
- We won’t be seeing the Whispering Room scene from James’ POV before end of March; Cassie said it may be better that we read it after Chain of Iron because we’ll learn much more about what James is thinking and feeling
- Valentine’s day: Matthew would go all out, James would make it very thought out and personal, Anna would make it fun, Alastair “never thought of giving anyone a valentine in his entire life so he’d have to work it out from first principles”, Thomas would prefer to do something together rather than give a gift, Christopher would forget
- Chain of Iron silhouettes are: Cordelia, Lucie, James, Matthew, Christopher, Thomas, Alastair, Grace, Jesse, Anna, Ariadne, with one of them being shared between two characters
- The events of “One must always be careful about books” take place during Chain of Iron
- “Matthew is always falling in love with people he can’t have, that’s his thing; and Alastair is always sabotaging himself” - when talking about complicated relationships in TLH
- The Chain of Iron scene Cassie is most excited for people to read: When Elias comes back, James has dinner with the Carstairs family, and Alastair does something unexpected then - this thing that Alastair does is what Cassie is excited for us to read and respond to; also several scenes with Cordelia she’s excited for us to read, and a big action scene where everyone is fighting together (including Anna and Christopher)
- About writing character interactions: Thomas and Alastair’s interactions are “goals”, but even Thomas and Anna interacting have a fun dynamic
- TLH is challenging because most characters have loving and stable families who are always interested in their whereabouts, which doesn’t help with sneaking around and fighting evil
- Cassie’s favourite spot in London is the Borough Market, which is also where the London Shadow Market is placed - there’s a big scene in ChoI where they all go to the Shadow Market
- Will probably lost most of his Welsh accent, having lived in London for so long
- ChoI ends with an emotional cliffhanger rather than a LoS-type cliffhanger
- Church is not around with Magnus in Chain of Iron, but maybe we’ll see him in Chain of Thorns
- Eugenia’s story shows the dangers of gossip, where someone says something about her that may not be true, which in turn ruins her reputation
- One thing James likes about Cordelia is that she likes him exactly the way he is; Cordelia values James’ kindness; “she thinks about the bits of him that she likes a lot in Chain of Iron ans he certainly thinks about her” - this was in context of physical appearances
- There is A LOT of kissing in Chain of Iron (Cassie says the saying “the second book is the make-out book” is true for TLH)
- Re new characters: No Morgensterns appear; we see Eugenia return and get to know her a bit more, we see how her and Thomas are coping after losing Barbara
- Elias’ relationship with his family is addressed in ChoI
- There is a fun scene in ChoI that involves James and Farsi that Cassie thinks we’ll really like; Cordelia teaches him a lot about Persian culture and the meanings of certain spoilery things
- Cortana is important; the fact that Cortana was able to wound Belial made Cordelia more interesting in Cortana’s history and abilities
- The Fairie blades Matthew, Anna and Cordelia got from Malcolm in ChoG are not important; the Blackthorn sword is important and we’ll find out why we don’t see it in TDA, why the Blackthorns don’t have it anymore and what happened to it
- We’re gonna learn Cordelia’s, Alastair’s and James’ middle names in ChoI
- Matthew will tell someone about his secret, which will make his relationship with this person more solid
- Lucie doesn’t lose her optimism but goes through some difficult stuff; she thinks Belial is deeply sexist
- Grace believes she doesn’t have tender feelings for anyone or anything because Tatiana brought her up to believe that; we will learn a lot more about her, her growing up, ans her history with Jesse in ChoI
- “Matthew has coped with having a great secret by being a cheerful drunk, Alastair copes by being grumpy”
- Alastair’s grappling with the return of his father and trying to convince the Merry Thieves that he wants to make it up to Thomas and the rest of them while still being his grumpy self, as he’s not someone who “lays his heart out at other peoples feet and let them walk on it”
- Lucie “mostly” doesn’t tell anybody about Jesse, at least not anybody that we would think of - but that doesn’t mean people don’t find out anyway
- We see Anna and Ariadne spend time together and have an interesting and pretty intense relationship
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