The Mortal Instruments series By Cassandra Clare - Restarting November 8th 2018 with book 6

[Maddie]

50% (view spoiler)[Uh oh does Simon still love Clary? I'm assuming this is showing what they all want most? (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Wait Isabelle??

[Natalie]

Started c:

Prologue: (view spoiler)[So while I don’t think Emma has been introduced prior to this book... Helen and Aline were both in the previous one, from what I remember.
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Is Ty on the autism spectrum? :o If he is then I am honestly SUPER excited about his character. I hope he’s well portrayed ;-;
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So now I know why these people were introduced. Basically to have an institute full of Shadowhunters for Sebastian to kill/turn into his evil minions 😛 (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

I honestly have no idea what you just said XD

[Natalie]

What part of it? O.o

[Maddie]

Like all of it XD I'm so lost. I can't remember any of the previous books.

[Tiera]

Maddison wrote: "18% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ Right! It is almost as if the author used this book to promote or at least inspire some interest in . I am finding so so many references to it, I knew that there were some but I had never read Clockwork Angel until just the other day, which is why I felt I needed a refresher on this book because I remembered things but I couldn't remember exact details pertaining to Clockwork Angel. Tessa is the FMC in Clockwork Angel. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

30% Let me start out by saying even that even though I read this book somewhere right around when the netflix series was fixing to come out, I guess I never marked it as read on Goodreads, which is probably because I have this series on ibooks so it doesn't auto feed to Goodreads like Kindle. I am rereading it because I am looking for references to Clockwork Angel since I have just read that book and trying to refresh some already known things and find tidbits that I didn't recognize as references when I read it before. (view spoiler)[ So a couple things.. "Think of Tessa. Did you learn nothing from her? About what loves are worth the pain of losing them?" This is from Magnus and Catarina's conversation, and frustratingly enough it doesn't say who she loved...
When Magnus is talking about the London Institute he says their secret defense was a "ghost" who had been there for 130 years which would put that ghost in Clockwork Angel Timeframe... I wonder which character that is.
Also Zachariah has to be Will because Jem had white hair, but that was due to the dark magic....hmmm Ill keep looking for clues. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

I feel like a detective looking for spoils in this book about the series lol!

[Tiera]

42% (view spoiler)[ The Carstairs are described as fair haired, tho Jem's was white, even Emma has blond hair. Brother Zachariah has dark hair.... hes gotta be Will. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

I think it would be epic if after they wrap up the Netflix series for the Immortal Instruments that they took all the same exact characters and put them in the Clockwork Angel series and ran that.. But put them in different spots scatter them around and disguise them a little here and there, I mean other than the people that were actually there like Camille and Magnus etc. Maybe even have Valentine's actor play the Magistor or something. I honestly don't know if the series is even still running I think I got distracted after maybe 1/2 way through the second season.... but i still think it would be cool.

[Maddie]

The only connections I've had to far have to have been from Clockwork Princess, because that's the one I haven't read and it's got the characters in it, and it's talking about things I don't know.

You read so fast

[Maddie]

73% (view spoiler)[Yay already this far through. I just really don't know what's happening anymore, just listening to it and wanting to get to the end XD (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

81% (view spoiler)[Why is it that now the male narrator does Clary's chapters? (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

83% (view spoiler)[More incest ugh sick. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

84% (view spoiler)[Okay so Jonathon wasn't actually Sebastian? Okay.

She really likes to use the work ichor.. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

86% (view spoiler)[Why is Clary now mad that her mother is safe back in the real world...? (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

87% (view spoiler)[WHY IS IT SUCH A HORRIBLE THING?! Here they were, not wanting Magnus to die, but now it seems like they'd rather have Magnus dead than have Simon forget about them? God this book. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

92% (view spoiler)[Yeah good words Alec, stay true to yourself. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

93% (view spoiler)[What does she expect... It's what she was told would happen!

And why does Clary get to call him rather then Isabelle? I suppose she has known him longer though.. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

94% (view spoiler)[Oh wow she's only using Julian to get revenge? I thought she'd somehow, at 12, apparently know what love was.. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

94% (view spoiler)[I really really hope that Izzy and Simon fall in love again :D (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

96% (view spoiler)[I couldn't ever imagine anyone saying anything like that in real life... Those vulnerable guy speeches are just things for movies and books.

How does she think of those speeches up on the spot?? I can only say things like that over text/letter! I can't think of those and say them properly in person. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

God this Epilogue is taking forever! I just want it to be over!

[Maddie]

Well I guess now we know who Tessa ends up with in Clockwork Princess XD

[Maddie]

Oh wow how they got the name Fray!

[Maddie]

How is she alive???

[Maddie]

GOD THIS EPILOGUE IS STILL GOING! I can't wait to just get done with this series!

[Maddie]

FINALLLLYYYYYYY hate how it typically ended (view spoiler)[with Jace and Clary's relationship though. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Review: THANK GOD I GOT THROUGH THIS! Ugh what a slog. I was lost basically from start to finish, only really following Simon, as per usual. Why did I feel like this book was one of the most boring in the series. Thank gosh I actually finally finished this bloody series, now I can forget about it and get rid of it! YAAAAYYYYYYY I liked the tie-in with Infernal Devices in this book, and a crossover of some of the characters. But just honestly I'm done with all of this crap.

[Natalie]

Chapter 4: (view spoiler)[Didn’t take long for the Endarkened to... darken... Simon’s door 😛 but the fact that there were some of Maureen’s minions waiting to capture Simon upon his escape at the same time is very suspicious :/
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Oh gross. Sebastian and the Fairy Queen are sleeping together. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

I think reading your updates will help me understand XD

[Tiera]

I was dying laughing last night as Maddison was posting every one %! I could just imagine her comments before I went to read them 95% still not over 96% just a little bit farther... 97 % omg still not over. Then this morning when I opened my app that is basically was lol! So funny!

[Tiera]

49% (view spoiler)[ I knew when I read about Church in Clockwork Angel that I recognized that name!! How is that cat still alive!? (hide spoiler)]

59% (view spoiler)[ Is a Jiffy really a measurement of time...is that a thing? one sixteenth of a second.. I feel like this useless tidbit will help me in Trivia games if its true lol. (hide spoiler)]

60% (view spoiler)[ "Waste your fire on the desert air, my brother!" he cried, "Let it pour into the sands like blood or water, and may you never stop coming--never stop coming until we are face to face." Wow Sebastian.....dramatic much? (hide spoiler)]

61% (view spoiler)[ Awww poor Zachariah...who i still think is Will, just seeing Tessa's signature, has him all up in his feels. Not so sure I want to read the 2nd and 3rd books in the Clockwork Angel series...not if there is no HEA. Zachariah talks about a cure...says that "A cure cannot always be found. At least not in time." Speaking with some age old experience...Maybe he is Jem....Gah I still feel its Will though. (hide spoiler)]

[Tiera]

84% (view spoiler)[ I haven't read the Dark Artifices series but I have a feeling that when Emma said she wanted to be Jule's parabatai that she knows she may want more than that. (hide spoiler)]

85% (view spoiler)[ I would definitely like to read the book Magnus wrote for Alec I wonder if thats in the cards.
"Brother Zachariah,' Isabelle said. "Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar." LMAO (hide spoiler)]

Finished Dang it! (view spoiler)[ I still don't know who Zachariah is... I'm going to actually have to read the whole Internal Devices series to find out. (hide spoiler)] I am so glad I did a reread of this even if it was so I could sleuth out info about the characters in in the Internal Devices series. Though it has been quite some time since I have read the rest of the Immortal Instruments series I really didn't feel too lost. I do remember when reading through the series the first time that it seemed like the author really dragged out the main story line, but she is really great about throwing in plenty of distractions that still makes the books interesting to me.

[Maddie]

XD Glad I could entertain.

[Natalie]

Chapter 8: (view spoiler)[The ‘warning system’ in the London Institute that The Clave was unaware existed... it was Jessamine’s ghost, huh? She’s been hanging around for over a hundred years? Poor kid ._. Does this mean she can be at peace again now?
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Oh jeez. This ‘Lord Montgomery’ roleplay between Isabelle and Simon is... not good... ._.
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And Simon is now aware that Jordan is dead. Poor guy. (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

XD Yeah the roleplay!

[Natalie]

I swear I don’t know how you managed to read this book so fast - it’s taking me forever @_@

[Maddie]

3x audio XD And a lot of Candy Crush.

[Natalie]

Tiera wrote: "
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It is! :D

[Natalie]

Maddison wrote: "22% [spoilers removed]"

Seem to be *shrugs*

There seems to be some kind of (view spoiler)[hive mind (hide spoiler)] aspect to them honestly.

[Natalie]

Tiera wrote: "Maddison wrote: "18% [spoilers removed]"

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It's because the two series are intertwined I believe. They even have some character crossover between the two (view spoiler)[such as Tessa, and "Brother Zachariah" (hide spoiler)] and some things in one book spoil things for the other, etc. If you read them in publication order everything ties together between the two, whereas if you read them in series order you'll get spoilers for one or the other.

[Natalie]

Tiera wrote: "

30% Let me start out by saying even that even though I read this book somewhere right around when the netflix series was fixing to come out, I guess I nev..."

The "love" that's referred to will be revealed in Clockwork Princess, same with who the ghost is, and who Brother Zachariah is ;D If you've only read Clockwork Angel at this stage, you wouldn't have all the info c:

The books are honestly written in the most confusing way. If you want to get all the info you basically need to read it in publication order. The wikia has info on it here:
https://shadowhunters.fandom.com/wiki...

I was reading it in the "Triad order" listed on that, which in hindsight wasn't the smartest plan. Oops? :P

[Tiera]

Yea I didn’t even realize the series were meant to be read together until Sarah said that clockwork angel is actually book 4 and not book 1. 🤯

[Natalie]

Yeah, it's definitely confusing, huh? 8'D I was fine for a while, because I read the first three (up to City of Glass) when they first came out, and Clockwork Angel when that came out... but then it took a while before the next lot came out and I'm only now catching up on ALL the Cassandra Clare books XD;;

[Maddie]

Yeah I'm mad because I have been reading them in publication order, but then I thought 'na I'll be fine if I read TMI 6 before TID 3', as there haven't really been spoilers so far, and TMI 6 worked for a challenge. Bit mad now, the ending of TID is ruined. Not that I really care but yknow.

[Natalie]

Oh jeez, really? I thought you'd already read TID 3 o.O I read that one first, and there's definitely spoilers for this one... especially because I read the separate epilogue thingamajig as well, and from what I can tell with that, it was based after this one... They're just too damn confusing to find the proper reading order honestly @_@

[Maddie]

Yeah the one book I decide to read out of order...

But honestly I can't remember a thing about these books. For some reason audio just doesn't stick with me.

[Natalie]

Haha, yeah XD

Fair enough. Probably works pretty well when you accidentally read out of order and thus get spoilers then I suppose? 8'D