She can make you believe you know her characters as if they’re your friends with whom you cry and laugh with. They seem utterly real.Īnd it’s that reality I love the most about Cassandra Clare’s books. They all seem so human even with their otherworldly powers and magic tattoos. That Will is out there being cocky and outsmarting everyone or that Jem is surprising himself with his own kindness and playing the violin by a very old building’s window. Sometimes I think those characters really exist. I’m not sure where it landed or if I’ll ever recover it. Clockwork Princess broke my heart, patched it up again and finally threw it out of the window.

Clockwork Princess cover art (Walker Books edition)Īfter reading the very last page of this book, I felt like I would never be okay again. Both stories are so perfectly entwined I can’t help but wonder which one started first in Cassandra Clare’s mind. The book is not only the final piece to its own series but also what The Mortal Instruments was lacking it is all the missing details that made me almost pull my own hair with curiosity, but also a whole new story on its own that leads to The Mortal Instruments plot. The only thing I know is that I wasn’t expecting to finish it sobbing my lungs out for an hour or two. I don’t really know what I was expecting from The Infernal Devices ending. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.ĭanger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.įrom Goodreads Clockwork Princess published by Simon & Schuster (2013) Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMING.Ī net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. The words seem too reluctant to leave my mind and the characters… those will always stay. In fact, I feel like I will be forever reading it. I’ve finished this book months ago but it’s like I haven’t.

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