Clockwork Princess

WOW! I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting with this book, but what I just read completely changed my thoughts. That book was so emotionally draining, I'm not even sure where to begin with my thoughts. I think I'm just going to leave it by saying that it was a fantastic way to finish the trilogy and I cannot wait for The Last Hours to read more about Tessa.

I was pretending to write a review in english but... I have a lot of things to say.. so, let's do it in portuguese.

Sentimentos confusos sofre esse livro. Ainda sou MUITO TEAM WILL - pois o moço arrasava, um real príncipe com PhD!, que dava e conseguia deixar qualquer pessoa sem ar... Completamentamente.
O que me leva a pensar do por que não Will não ter se tornado imortal ou ele e Jem dividirem um mesmo corpo embora almas distintas, o que me pouparia, também, de um choro quase convulsionado que apenas quem sofre grandes perdas com o envolvimento na leitura pode entender. Team Will e Team Jem, ambos saem felizes com o término das peças infernais. Embora, como fã louca pela história, falatou a explicação do Jem sobre esta longa história que envolvia Lightwood, Fairchild e Herondale. Really, I want to know. Não é/são todos os dias que vemos um Irmão do Silêncio voltar a ser lindo! Por mais que ela o amasse igualmente, falta o QUÊ de Will Herondale no James.
Cassandra Clare ... Você se superou. Um nível muito acima de Os Instrumentos mortais, e o mais enriquecedor, com certeza, fora ver essa mudança na visão do mundo e a mudança de costumes e tradições que atinge até mesmo uma sociedade fantástica como a dos Caçadores de Sombras. Como por exemplo, o preconceitos por mulheres no governo, pelas invenções científicas as quais no mundo atual nenhum Shadow Hunter consegue imaginar ficar sem (o portal, o “rastreador” de demônios, dentre outros).
Acho que ainda estou muito na euforia de ter terminado a leitura.l Meus olhos ainda estão marejados pela morte de Will por mais mortal que a personagem seja (acho que é um dos primeiros livros que leio onde o autor comenta como a personagem mais carismática e desejada morre, como fora sei leito de morte, envolvendo com tanto sentimentalismo e significado cada cena e cada momento do texto). Ainda acho que Tessa merece a carteirinha de Biscate Grossa.. Poréém... relevando tudo, o livro surpreendeu.
Série recomendabilíssima

This review is also posted to my website Behind the Pages: Clockwork Princess

An army of infernal devices waits in the distance, it's one goal to eradicate the Shadowhunters. Mortmain is still hunting for Tessa, determined to claim her and user her power against the Shadowhunters she holds dear. When she is taken captive, the Clave refuses to respond, caught up in their own politics. It is up to the London Shadowhunters to save Tessa. But can so few stand against an entire army?

I have never read a trilogy before where the protagonist is so thoroughly shoved into the background until the final book. The heart of this trilogy was based around the love triangle of Tessa, Will, and Jem. It was slow and tedious because the same things happened again and again. I suppose those who fancy romance novels would love this series, but I am not one of those people. I was also surprised to find that a character we've known throughout the trilogy did a complete turn around with their beliefs. It was as if another character had the same name. It broke the rules set down by the previous two books just to make a plot device. There was weak reasoning given around it, but after book two I couldn't believe it.

It took a good half of the book to pick up the pace. When it did start rolling with action, I was glued to it even though deep down I knew the ending to this trilogy. Anyone who has read Mortal Instruments knows how it ends.

Maybe my hopes were too high for this trilogy because I loved Mortal Instruments. I can't say I enjoyed the Infernal Devices.

This month I feel like I've gone on such a wonderful journey through the world of Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunters and her Infernal Devices Trilogy, I've been what I would term a transient reader for the past year and have struggled to read sometimes one book a month but somehow in May I have managed to read this entire trilogy and a few other books besides. The other books were there as fillers to stop me from reading The Infernal Devices books back to back but my desperation to return to Clare's world meant I found myself devouring those books quickly too lest it takes me too long away from the world of Jem, Tessa and Will.

I had tried to begin The Mortal Instruments, the companion series to these books, and each time I had stalled. I just couldn't build that picture in my mind of the world Clare was building but now I can see it as clearly as day. I feel it's been fundamental for me to read this series, essentially the prequel to The Mortal Instruments books in order to be able to fully prepare myself to go back and delve into the modern world setting of the other books. I think I needed to have that gothic, historical setting and wonderful love stories to make me fall in love with the Shadowhunter world and to build the family background of all the characters that I will meet as I move into The Mortal Instruments.

And what a story this was, from the opening chapters it is full of a wonderful mix of adventure and suspense and emotion and love. It picks up immediately after the end of Clockwork Prince where we find that Will Herrondale's sister Cecily has arrived at The Institute and is training now to be a Shadowhunter. We are still trying to track down the mysterious Magister and his army of clockwork automatons and to piece together how Tessa forms such an integral part of his plans. We also are still questioning how Tessa has the ability to shapeshift when both of her parents were apparently mundane's. All of the characters we've come to love are there and it's like coming home to family, you feel like part of the Institute and care about each and every single one of them. From Bridget the cook and her somewhat annoying if not insightful singing to Charlotte, head of the institute who is now pregnant with her first child.

Alongside all of the adventure of this book, the story is fundamentally about the one story we are all desperate to know the end of, the love between Jem, Will and Tessa. When we left them Tessa was engaged to marry Jem but his health is failing and unbeknown to him his best friend and parabatai Will is also in love with his fiancee. For the first time in any love triangle, I was so desperately rooting for them all. Jem and Will are so intricately a part of each other and such wonderfully written characters that you want to be able for Tessa to love them both. This book had me wrung out emotionally throughout, there were so many moments of wonderful writing where Clare would move their story forward but also take great care not to rush past the difficult emotions that were going on within. At times there is humour and light moments to lift us from the darkness and this balance is a very special thing.

We do reach a wonderful and very satisfying conclusion at the end of the book, one I certainly didn't see coming. In fact, throughout this book, there were so many moments where Clare would so utterly surprise you with how the story changed and moved that I found myself catching my breath and in sheer joy or amazement. Those surprises you don't see coming make this an amazing end to her wonderful Infernal Devices series. Coming away from them I feel like I've made a whole group of new friends, not real friends but as a book lover, I'm sure you know that feeling that the people you read about when written well leap so off the page that they feel as real to you as can be. I am still utterly enraptured by Magnus Bane, I don't know what it is about him that makes Clare write him so vividly that each time he is on the page he totally consumes it, he is so utterly three dimensional you feel you could reach out and touch him. I want to learn so much more about how each of the families of Shadowhunters will move forward in The Mortal Instruments. I want to see how their children's children and great grandchildren will reflect the characters of their ancestors.

These books have been such a wonderful experience to read this past month. Someone said to me recently that if you are in a reading slump maybe it's not the reading that's the problem but what you are reading. Never has a truer word been spoken. To break away from my usual genre's and to enter a world unfamiliar has paid me such dividends and rejuvenated me so much that I feel more enthusiastic about reading than I have in such a long time. For that, Cassandra Clare, I thank you.

OMG OMG OMFG I AM NOT OK I REPEAT I AM NOT OK!!!

I CANNOT EVEN BREATHE.. BOTH OF MY NOSTRILS ARE STUFFED UP AND I DONT EVEN HAVE NO TISSUE TO BLOW MY NOSE!!! MY HEART IS CRUSHED TO PIECES!!

WILL MY BEAUTIFUL WILL!! MAY HE REST IN PIECE ❤️ LOVED HIM FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.... THEN BAM THIS BOOK AND THE FUCKING EPILOGUE KILLED MY SOUL!!! IT FUCKING KILLED ME

CASSANDRA KNOWS HOW TO BREAKS OUR HEARTS SHE KNOWS IT!!!!

now it's time for me to go eat some ice cream and cry for an hr until I fall asleep... Ik my pillow will be soaking wet from my tears when I wake up.

I was so pleased with the last chapter.
And the the epilogue kind of killed me. And the I was happy. And the I was Sad. I cried a lot going back and forth between these two emotions.
I read this series because I want to read Chain Of gold and I felt it would make the whole experience better, but right now I'm not ready.
Over all great book, not what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised with most of the twist it took.

Not my favorite of the series but I did really enjoy the book. Will has to be my favorite character of this series, I connected so much with his story and found myself rooting for him throughout the three books. I also love how Cassandra concluded the love triangle, I was nervous at first but it worked out well in the end.

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

I thought I was prepared for this but obviously, I was not. this book is simply beautiful. bittersweet, but still beautiful. it's been a long time since I was attached to many characters as I was to the London Institute group and especially Will, Tessa and Jem. Their story was memorable, one I will definitely be thinking about for a while.

the plotline was engaging but I would be lying if I said I wasn't here for the romantic storyline between our main trio. I was worried about how everything will be resolved, but the outcome was very special and I have no complaints.

“At last, the wheel comes full circle”

I love this entire series with my whole heart. If you want a book that's character driven, has romance, with some history AND set in London this is for you. Read it its amazing omg.


Okay me again about a year later. I was scared I wouldn't like this series because of how many other books I have read and have loved so much. But this still remains a favorite. I see it's flaws but love it despite them. These are characters that I genuinely think about all the time and adore. Still a 5/5.