Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) in The Mortal Instruments Series LOVERS! :P

May 25, 2012 Alexis *Reality Bites* marked it as to-read

Tell me this cover is not hot! This shit is blazin HOT!!!!
HOT HOT DAMN! Can't wait to read this:)

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Sep 24, 2011 Cecilia rated it it was amazing

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AMAZING!! My life will never be the same! This book changed my life! I've never read such a good book in my life! I really felt for the charecters. They have such depth. I can connect so many things I see and hear to this series. It just doesn't stop! I was sobbing through out some parts of the book! I love all the charecters in the
book! Gabriel Lightworm- opps Lightwood- really grew on me. There's so much to say about this book... It was very interesting the way Cassandra Clare solved the love ...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Kaitlyn *I Will Never Let Go* rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-faves, paranormal-steampunk-urban-fantasy, love-story, characters-i-actually-care-about

There was a quote in this book that describes my emotions perfectly. It was about how in every meeting there is the bitterness of parting, and in every parting there is the sweetness of meeting. That is how I felt about this book. I knew when I picked up Clockwork Angel that it would all end eventually, even though at the time I had no earthly idea how much I'd grow to love the series. And I knew when I picked up Clockwork Princess that this was the end, the last time I'd see these characters ou There was a quote in this book that describes my emotions perfectly. It was about how in every meeting there is the bitterness of parting, and in every parting there is the sweetness of meeting. That is how I felt about this book. I knew when I picked up Clockwork Angel that it would all end eventually, even though at the time I had no earthly idea how much I'd grow to love the series. And I knew when I picked up Clockwork Princess that this was the end, the last time I'd see these characters outside of rereads, the last time I could live in the pages and have my heart beat in sync with theirs. But yet, there was also the sweetness of hello in this book. I fell in love even more deeply, and I laughed even more sweetly, and the tears I shed were more crystalline and beautiful than tears have any right to be. When I turned the last page and closed the book, there was not just the bitterness of parting, but that gorgeous sweetness of meeting. I have lived a lifetime with these characters, and in saying goodbye, I felt just as strongly as I did when saying hello.
I have lived a thousand lives through the pages of books, but none of them have touched me in the same way this one has.
This book has heightened my expectations for all other books. I can't even write a comprehensible thought right now, so caught up am I in the leftover emotions. However, I will say this; I am in love. With Jem, with Tessa, with Will. With this gorgeous world Cassie Clare has created for me. Because I feel as if this world was so very mine. I felt as if I were Tessa, as if Will were the boy I loved with all my soul, because he was just like me, as if Jem were the boy I loved with all my heart, for his heart was better than mine would ever be. I loved this story, I loved this world. And I think this book has reminded me why I read. I read to experience things I never would otherwise, to find parts of me that I didn't know existed, to experience emotions more intense than anything I've ever felt before, and to love people who will never hurt me. Most of all, I read so I can learn to see. Words are what move me, what touch me, but they are also how I see. When something is put into gorgeous words for me, then I can come to understand it, and apply it to the world. I read so my eyes are opened, and this tale of unbreakable love certainly opened my eyes.
And were my eyes ever opened. I learned more about myself while reading this than I'd ever known before. I saw a reflection of my mind in Tessa, a reflection of my heart in Jem, and a reflection of my soul in Will. And that is what a good book does, I believe. It connects you irrevocably to people you don't know, to people who don't exist, by taking a part of your very soul and using it to breathe these characters to life. In this way, writing is its own form of magic, and is a skill only a few posses. Only once before in my life have I felt so at home in a book, so attached to its characters, and that was when reading the epitome of wonder, Harry Potter. However, this book and its magnificently human characters, its gritty yet beautiful setting, made me experience things that even Rowling didn't evoke in me. It awoke a part of me, and that is a part that will never go back to sleep.
This tale was so poignantly beautiful, so heart-wrenchingly, achingly, perfectly beautiful, that I don't think my view of literature will ever be the same. I can guarantee that I will be reading this series again, falling in love again, breaking my heart again. This series drew me to it like a moth to flame; you knownothing good will come if it, that it will only result in pain and heartbreak, but it is just so very beautiful, captivating in its danger. And even though it hurt, even though it burned and sobbed and crushed a part of me, it also gave me wings and healedsomething in me that had been very, very broken.
Such an extraordinary tale.
In the end, all I can say through my tears is this: Thank you, Cassandra Clare, for changing my life with your magnificent books. And thank you, God, for giving her this gift of words.
I only had one qualm. The epilogue. Yes, I understand the point of it, and I appreciated it for what it was. But it ruined one of the things I hold most sacred about books. In books, there is no real end. Sure, the pages run out, the words stop flowing, but the characters, the characters never die. They live on in the reader's imagination, preserved exactly as they were in the story, the way that people had come to love them. And they live forever, a different sort of immortality. However, when an author takes the liberty of explaining the rest of the character's life, right up to the moment they die of old age, it ruins some of that magic. Because the character is officially dead, and cannot be resurrected. I understand why Ms. Clare had to do it, and I will let it slide, but it still broke my heart. Only, for a very different reason than the rest of the book.
On a random, personal note, I shall be awaiting the arrival of my Will Herondale. And my friends wonder why I've never had a boyfriend. Clearly, they don't understand how some books just raise my expectations. But when the day comes when some boy is willing to quote Dickens and read the books I love, then he will have the map of my soul. Not to mention the key to my heart.
Bless you, Cassie Clare, and bless your Shadowhunters.
And as for Tessa, Jem, Will, Charlotte, Henry, Gideon, Gabriel, Sophie and Cecily, it has been an honor to get to know you all. I will never forget you. Ave atque vale, friends. Hail and farewell. ...more

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May 06, 2012 Angela rated it it was amazing

I loved this book as it concluded the IDS Series. It took me a while to get through as did the previous two books before it. This is mainly because the chapters are lengthly and there were alot of different plots and character's stories to tell. I admit I shed tears of happiness towards they end and tears of sadness as well. The big love triangle between Wiil, Jem, amd Tessa wasn't an issue because I could've been happy with who ever she chose because I loved them both equally. Where as in Tiger ...more

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