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Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)

Cassandra Clare

Start date: November 1, 2013

Finish date: November 30, 2013

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Plot:

Tessa and Jem were set to marry in December. The two grow closer as a couple as their wedding date approaches. Will always finds excuses not to look Tessa in the eye and never be in a room alone with her. With Will's younger sister, Cecily, now determined to be trained as a shadowhunter and/or convince Will to return home with her, Will is not running out of excuses as to why he is unavailable to watch his best friend flirt with the girl he loved. With an incident causing both Lightwood bro Plot:

Tessa and Jem were set to marry in December. The two grow closer as a couple as their wedding date approaches. Will always finds excuses not to look Tessa in the eye and never be in a room alone with her. With Will's younger sister, Cecily, now determined to be trained as a shadowhunter and/or convince Will to return home with her, Will is not running out of excuses as to why he is unavailable to watch his best friend flirt with the girl he loved. With an incident causing both Lightwood brothers to move into the London Institute, the whole Institute is thrust into chaos as they are faced with a looming issue that they are not prepared for: Jem dying. Where he is constantly dying, the drug he used to survive is no longer in supply, and they need to find a cure fast if Jem is going to make it to his own wedding. Forcing Tessa and Will to go to Magnus hoping for his help finding a cure, a letter arrives from Mortmain offering Jem's lifetime supply of the drug in exchange for Tessa. Not waiting for their reply, Mortmain kidnaps Tessa, and besides forcing her to marry him, he tells her what she truly is and what he needs from her. Consul Josiah Wayland has other ideas with the Institute in chaos, trying to gather support to save Tessa. He tries to get the council to force Charlotte to give up the Institute, claiming that her womanly incidents are messing up. From love and death, kidnapping and saving, our heroes find themselves at the end of the stories; the only question is to see how all these events turn out.

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What a way to end a series! I had my doubts with Cassandra Clare, who wrote their first book series with six novels, all equally large in size, so how can they do the same thing, but in three? Well, Clare did it, tying up all the loose ends, giving you an epilogue to die for; Clare shows off her talent as a writer, like this book, despite being more than five hundred pages will fly through your hands. Picking up right where the second book left off, Clare continues focusing mainly on our love triangle but gives the spotlight to other characters as well - specifically Sophie and Cecily. Similar to the second book, Sophie begins to become more than just a maid, as she is Tessa's friend, Gideon's lover, and receives an ending that I saw coming and is happy that it happened. Cecily essentially takes Jessamine's position in the story. She acts similar to Jessie as not really being a character on her own, but more as an accessory to Will as his little sister or friend. A nitpicky flaw in this novel is that where Clare translates Jem's Chinese statements, she does not translate Will's Welsh statements. Where he does not talk in Welsh long, it is said that those few conversations between Will and Cecily are not translated. Another flaw is that sometimes it feels like Clare forgot the period of it being in the 1870s, as where Shadowhunters are more advanced, Tessa seems to have fallen into this world as does not seem to care that she is out in public alone with Will, or that her actions will lead to severe consequences due to the period of the story if she chooses to live a mortal life. What stood out about this series as a whole was Clare's actual love triangle between Will, Jem, and Tessa. Most love triangle tropes do not work because it is about two guys pinning for one girl, where Clare's triangle has both Will and Jem in love with Tessa (and Tessa back to them), Clare also had these boys being more than brothers to each other, and the difficulties between choosing your parabatai and the girl you love. Clare truly has readers reading until the epilogue to find out who Tessa ends up with, and the answer is heartbreakingly sweet, one that will leave you crying and is honestly worth reading the entire series for. Indeed a perfect way to end the series; Clare wraps up all the loose ends, gives us years into the future for our beloved characters. There is so much love within the story that I encourage everyone to read it just for that feeling of wholehearted romance. ...more

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