Author:
Cassandra Clare
Pages:
479
Published
by: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Rating:
3.5/5
When Tessa
Gray crosses the Atlantic to follow her brother Nate to England, she gets
kidnapped by the mysterious Pandemonium Club. Tessa find out that there is much
more to this world than she knew. Vampires, Faries, Demons exist and she is one
of them. She takes refugee with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who
promise her to help her look for her brother, if she will help them with her
powers.
I am
currently marathoning all of Cassandra Clare´s book in order of publication
date. I know I am late to the game, but better late than never, right? Having
heard lots about this series I expected two things from this book: That it would be faaaaar better than “The
Mortal Instruments” and that I would absolutely fall in love with Will
Herondale. Now I have read this book but I can´t really approve of either of
these statements. I liked the Mortal Instruments. I didn´t love them like everybody else
did but I liked them. To be quite frankly I didn´t really see the difference
between the two series. Yes, they take place in two completely different time
periods and TMI doesn´t have the clockwork monsters, but in both series the main
character is a girl who finds out she isn´t who she thought she was and she plays a
big role in the Shadowhunter universe, both have a love triangle, where one of
the love interests is really rude *hust* Will Herondale *hust* and a girl, who
acts like she doesn´t care about anything but can fight real good if she has
to (=Isabelle/Jessamine).
But there
are some things The Mortal Instruments had that Clockwork Angel just doesn´t.
Tessa doesn´t really care about anything except herself and Will and books.
Don´t even get me started on Will. On Jace the rudeness was charming, but Will just
takes it too far sometimes. It made me smile yes, especially Tessa´s answers,
but was it something that made me fall in love with him, so that now he is my
ultimate book boyfriend? Heck no! Maybe that will change, the farther into the
series I get, because I will learn more about the characters and I will have a
greater appreciation of them. We will see.
So what did
I like about this book? The change in scenery and time period brought something
different. Until now I haven´t really read a steampunk so I had a great time
exploring this new genre, which I now really want to read more from, so if you
have any good suggestions let me now in the comments down below! Also I loved
getting these little nuggets Cassandra Clare put in for the readers of both
series. For example the Pandemonium, some of the reoccurring families, church
and mostly MAGNUS! I loved how he played a tiny part in this as well. It gave
me, as somebody who reads both series right now, a real understanding of how
old he really is.
I don´t
really have any complex thoughts of this series, but the reason I think this
book definitely deserves three and a half stars, was the plot
twist at the end. Without it I would have only given it three stars, so yes
read it till the end! I am still going to continue with the series, after I
finished “City of Fallen Angels”. Hopefully I will love “Clockwork Prince”
more, I still have hopes!
Have you
read “Clockwork Angel”? And if so what did you think of it? Let me know down in
the comments below!
Read on xx
Lena
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