Clockwork angel pdf

They choose the most obvious hiding spot and then proceed to giggle whenever you get close, feeling so clever and genius. CC plays her cards outright and expects us to be shocked when the plot twist comes, even though she's been foreshadowing it with a heavy hand from the very start.

Oh, and what a convenient infodumping machine that random character you just met is! This book was trash. And that's all. You don't even realize how perfect this book is to me, it's among the best books I've ever read. There's something about Cassandra Clare that makes me feel like she's getting better with every book she publishes.

I can wholeheartedly say that this plot is much better than TMI. The writing is more interesting, intriguing, exciting. Unlike Clary, Tessa is a good character. But I love Tessa. It makes the reading a lot more comfortable for me.

Well, she is the main character after all. I'm in love with the setting. My dearest London always makes me feel at home. I love the fact that these characters are ancestors of the characters in the TMI series. Now I'll talk a little about the main characters: Tessa- She's a great main character. Usually, I have a hard time liking the main character. They are the main point of view in the books you read, you get into their heads, which is why it's hard to like them - you just know so much about them, and sometimes it's too much.

Not with Tessa. I really like her. She's real. Jem- An angel. A strong, beautiful angel. He should be a role model for all of us. Will- Hmm. Will is an enigma. Even tho this book has a love triangle, which I truly hate, the relationships in this book are great. I love both Jem and Will. Each one of them is special in his own way. Both are deep and complicated characters, and it makes me happy. I just love deep and complicated characters. I want to know more and more and more about him.

The secondary characters were great too. Basically, this book was fantastic. The only thing that bothered me was the plot twists- too obvious, too cliche. And yet, the ending left me speechless. View all 12 comments. Y'all better settle in, grab a snack, some tea and a comfy blanket, because I've got a lot to say about this one! I originally read Clockwork Angel in December of It was my first time reading anything from Cassandra Clare. I was not prepared for how much I would enjoy this world and Y'all better settle in, grab a snack, some tea and a comfy blanket, because I've got a lot to say about this one!

I was not prepared for how much I would enjoy this world and the corresponding magic system. I knew after I completed this, I wanted to read every single thing Clare had ever written set in the world of the Shadowhunters.

In addition to that, I want to be caught up and able to pick up her upcoming trilogy, The Wicked Powers , as it is published. With the first book expected to drop in , I definitely think I can accomplish my goal. I have since done some research and decided to read the books in publication order. Since then I have completed the first three books in that series and before I knew it, it was time to reread Clockwork Angel.

Reading it this time, with the background of TMI , I definitely picked up more details than I did the first time around. During my first read, I didn't feel lost, or like there was information I was missing, however this time around it definitely added to my experience having the background of TMI. I liked how Clare introduced us to Tessa, who like Clary, is new to the world of Shadowhunters and Downworlders.

These characters learning the ins-and-outs of that system allows the Reader to learn along with them naturally, without it feeling info-dumpy. Going into this book, I had heard so much about Will and Jem, I was looking forward to being introduced to them.

I can definitely say, their characters do not disappoint. I think this time around, I found myself focusing a bit more on their friendship. I really appreciate their connection.

It's nice to see that unconditional support. The intrigue in this was great and the action, especially towards the end, was so much fun! Next up for me is City of Fallen Angels , which I am planning to get to this month. I am beyond ready to continue on my journey through the Shadowhunter Chronicles.

If these first four books are any indication, I have an exciting road ahead! Whether it is your favorite book, favorite series within the world, favorite character, etc. No spoilers, please. Remember, I am a Shadowhunter baby! View all 20 comments. Yes, I'll be doing a review for this on my channel. Yes, I'll be continuing the series. View all 22 comments. Feb 29, Irina rated it really liked it. View all 11 comments.

I really liked it, but I felt that it lacked something View 2 comments. Jul 22, Melanie rated it liked it Recommended to Melanie by: Emily. Shelves: demons , fantasy , read-in , romance , fae , paranormal , shifters , vampires , young-adult , read-in This was such a thoughtful gift from Haley!

And I really enjoyed this book. Easily my favorite Cassie Clare book yet! And this was hella darker than anything in the The Mortal Instruments thus far. Clockwork Angel is the first installm This was such a thoughtful gift from Haley!

Clockwork Angel is the first installment set in the same world that Cassandra Clare has crafted. Yet, this trilogy is set in historical London, with heavy steampunk vibes, and murderous machines!

And this book starts out with a young girl named Tessa, who is picking up her life and moving to England from America after the death of her Aunt. Her brother was already in London, so he sent for her so that they could start a new life together. Oh, and her brother is missing. I honestly never wanted to put this book down. Yet, I will say that I think a lot of things were kind of obvious.

The plot does feel recycled, just in a new and better setting, with a bigger and badder villain. Yet, Magnus and Jem are my favorite characters, so take that with a grain of salt. Seriously, super well done. Jem is the best boy. And, just like all the rest of the books set in this world so far, I always feel like racism is at the forefront of this story. That's all nothing, isn't it? You don't mean them.

And as for mundanes, have you ever thought maybe you'd be better at protecting them if you didn't despise them all so much? Holy moly. I am in love! And like. Tessa is only times a better main character than Clary. Like, learn some respect, dude. Tessa deserves better. Easily my favorite character that Cassie has ever written. She is the resident mom, and I approve. Wow, I sound so mean. From the first page she was on, I fell in love. Her backstory just stole my heart, and I want nothing but good things for this baby.

Also, she has the best quote of the entire book. I need so much more! I love it. Seeing him appear was seriously a highlight for me. I have so much love for this bisexual warlock. But I still enjoyed him as a villain way more than Voldemort Valentine. He had the most beautiful face she had ever seen. He looked like every fictional hero she'd ever conjured up in her head.

Although she'd never imagined one of them cursing at her while shaking his bleeding hand in an accusing fashion. I feel no chemistry between Jem and Tessa it kills me to say this , even though I like Jem so freaking much more than Will. I completely fell in love with the Victorian London setting, and I truly came to love some of these characters. View all 37 comments. It was rather boring at times and the story dragged heavily, especially in the middle and towards the end.

None of the characters has become particularly dear to me. The character constellation is almost the same: We have the girl who has never heard of the Shadow World before, but plays a bigger role in it than she believes. We have the boy with the dark past who refuses to let anyone come close to him. We have his best friend, seemingly the only one he cares about, who hides a secret of his own.

Jem is nice, but almost too nice sometimes. Still, he is my favourite character of those four. Will might be snarky and mysterious, but he can also be very mean without a real reason. The plot itself is fortunately different from the Mortal instruments series, but rather slow at times. Despite the something pages this book has, not much happens.

And what does happen is also somehow boring because, if possible, Tessa is mostly kept out of the fighting scenes or doesn't participate much in them. I wish Cassandra Clare would have had the guts to write something completely new instead of hanging onto the success of her first three books. Not sure yet if I will be curious enough to read the sequel, but probably not. View all 69 comments. Aug 29, Mikee ReadWithMikee rated it it was amazing. If you love The Mortal Instruments, then you will surely love this book, maybe even more than the original series itself.

The characters were one hundred times more better than that of The Mortal Instruments! Everybody was so much more likable and mature. I really thought for a second that Tessa Gray was older than sixteen years old because she carried herself more maturely than Clary. I always thought Clary was selfish and bratty, but Tessa is the complete opposite. And Will. Oh my William Herondale. I thought Jace was swoonworthy. Jace doesn't even come close to how Will swiftly steals the heart of all the ladies!

And maybe even a few boys. So if you're like me, I'm extremely wary of love triangles. It's old and overdone. And my couple never ends up together that's why I get all salty and bitter over them. I don't want to start assuming, but I think it's pretty evident who she'll end up with in the end. But whoever she ends up choosing, I won't complain about at all. Both guys are just so lovable in their own way. Cassandra Clare's writing has improved immensely since City of Bones!

And thank goodness, Cassandra decided to cut down the length of the chapters because I can never find a good place to stop while in the middle of one since some of her chapters can even go up to pages or something that feels like it. I'm looking forward to seeing how these events will ripple and affect the events that occur in The Mortal Instruments.

View all 26 comments. Sep 10, Dorreh rated it it was amazing. Shivered with excitement all throughout the book! This book was so so so good. I can easily say this is one of the best books I've read in a while. It's been a stressful couple of months, but this book was a place I went to where all the stress, the unhappiness, and depression of the past couple of m Shivered with excitement all throughout the book!

It's been a stressful couple of months, but this book was a place I went to where all the stress, the unhappiness, and depression of the past couple of months didn't reach me. It was such a welcome reprieve. I could babble about how great this book made me feel for hours on hours, but I think I've made my point. This book revolves around the prehistoric setting of the mortal instruments.

The mortal instrument was my first experience with Cassandra Clare, and I remember I was in love with the first 3 books. I admit there was a large gap between the 5 and 6th book, so I didn't read the 6th installment. So I had a good background with Cassandra Clare's work. That being said, I honestly don't think the two series are comparable.

While the mortal instruments was a enjoyable series, this book was an incredible work of art. Tessa, the books main character, while a soft hearted and innocent young women of old time New York upbringing, is of a literature loving and poetic nature. Tessa is so relatable, perhaps that's what attracted me to her most. At some point in the book I realized she may be my favorite character in fictional novels yet. Then there's Will, the perfect love hate pretty boy who would steal your heart no matter how badly he behaves.

Cassandra creates characters that are witty, lovable, and have quite the perfect dynamic. When Will says 'enterprising', he means 'morally deficient. The world and settings are relatively similar to the mortal instruments with the difference of the timeline.

Needless to say there is something quite alluring about a secret world right under the noses of the 'mundane'. While I read the mortal instruments first, I recommend reading the infernal devices prior to picking up TMI, it acts as a prologue. A very entertaining, well written, heart wrenching prologue. While I could rant on and on, since I had read the mortal instruments, the world of shadow hunters was familiar to me.

So it was like a sense of de javu, the good kind! View all 24 comments. I literally cannot give anything less than 5 stars for this book, this is my all time favourite series and I'm SO happy to be re-reading it. So, as we all know this was a re-read for me.

I've never wrote a review for this, so this is all fresh and new. I'm so excited to write this and have been wanting to do so for a long long time! I can finally do so now. I was so scared to re-read this, I thought may I literally cannot give anything less than 5 stars for this book, this is my all time favourite series and I'm SO happy to be re-reading it. I was so scared to re-read this, I thought maybe I'd hyped this up and it was all an illusion.

It wasn't! It was even better than what I remembered. It was also so good, because I had forgot SO much about this series.

In particular the characters I had previously become attached to previously. Tessa will always remain one of my favourite female role characters. I love her references and that she wants to do something to help. I love her references and that she is forever quoting books. Her relationships with the whole "family" and how she just becomes so brave and isn't afraid to say how she feels.

At the beginning she was so timid and couldn't believe that women were capable to do things men are able to do. That she was so offended that Camille spoke of her relationship with Magnus so casually had me howling! Over time she began to understand and wanted to become a strong and powerful woman like Boudicca. I fell in love all over again with Will, I swooned far too much once again! His sarcasm was on point! I must of forgotten, how dreadful. It feels as though he doesn't seem worthy of Tessa and to be loved.

I love how dedicated he is to his Shadowhunting world, and that he will do anything for Jem. His moment with Thomas in the end chapters really struck a nerve and it was so upsetting!

I can't wait to see him progress in the next books! He was so loving, and always knew what to do and how to act in certain situations. I never thought I'd swoon over Jem, but here I am. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must love yourself - will love the truth of you. I hate to say this, but I admit how much I forgot about Sophie. I know I know! I can't believe it! I adored her in this book. I think that Sophie is someone you would love to have as a friend, she may only be a "mundane" but she will do anything for anyone, I enjoyed her relationship with Tessa.

She takes no nonsense from Will, however when Gabriel tries to do so, she has none of it! So sassy! I love her! Jessamine is honestly such a bitch. I like her don't get me wrong I love how she just doesn't give a shit, however sometimes I felt a bit angry towards her and how she spoke to others.

Oh my god. Charlotte and Henry I cannot cope. How adorable are they?! I love how mothering Charlotte is and how awkward Henry is. They're both so lovely! I can't wait to see more of them! I'm going to clutter all of these together: Nate, Mortmain and De Quincy the people you love to hate. When I say hate, I honestly hated Nate so much. Just everything about him makes my skin crawl, this is what I want in a book. I love it when a book can make me feel so much emotion to characters.

So what did I love? What I didn't like? If you can't already tell, I'm so happy I re-read the first book! I love this series and I'm so excited to move onto Clockwork Prince. Until then, I will just swoon away! Re-read thoughts Added things I love: - Will and Tessa's first conversation "you cut me" along with Tessa biting Henry ahahahahaha! I am deceased at the love Jem and Will have for each other! I am here for it. This series honestly means so so so much to me and I will be eternally grateful for it.

View all 15 comments. Shelves: suspenseful-clues-and-thrilling-rev. I somehow picked this up at precisely the right time as I was in the mood for something historical along with an intriguing adventure and this was it. Prompt-a book that starts with the first letter of your name.

I'm really excited to finally meet the characters that everyone else is constantly talking about! View all 29 comments. What a load of bloody melodrama. This book ought to be sung in operatic fashion by a cast of three in a slightly seedy theatre in Brooklyn.

It's the sort of book that's dreadfully self-important but really, when you think about it, nothing happens: a few people appear, some technology gets destroyed, two things kiss and stuff, and between all that is a metric ton of filler. Listen, I'm not going to lie and say I didn't kind of enjoy it.

This was my third attempt at reading this, and I guess thir What a load of bloody melodrama. This was my third attempt at reading this, and I guess third time's a charm. I got through it in two and a half days, and two of those days were spent mostly at work and doing other things.

It's not something you need to funnel a lot of time into and it's not something that requires a great deal of thought. All of the deep talk about humanity and love and family and quoting from books I never intend to read is just a smokescreen to disguise that this book is thin, its characters are thin, its mythology is particularly thin, and even some obvious fanservice in the form of Magnus Bane couldn't spice it up. It's not a bad book; it's not a good book, either. The problem with Cassandra Clare is that she creates great side characters and shite main characters.

Tessa and Will are straight-up shite. They're bad people and absolutely tone deaf to what's going on around them, even when it's endangering the lives of the people they "care about". Those air quotes are for real. Neither of them are particularly interested anything other than each other's smell.

They're like dogs at the park; the leaves and the trees and the brisk wind is cool and everything but when there's another dog in a ten-foot radius, oh-ho. Forget comfortable lead walking. Actually, just say goodbye to that dog. Nothing else matters. I love Jem, but that's the problem, isn't it? He's a side character and yet he's so much more more worthy of being a protagonist than Tessa. I want to follow Jem. I want to know Jem. But instead we're trailing along on Tessa's skirts, watching her waffle from room to room of this unnecessarily massive Institute, ruin plans, beg for Will's attention, and generally oscillate around the library while everyone else does the work.

I don't expect Tessa to be Xena, because she's not been trained in combat, but if she isn't trained, don't take her on a mission into a vampire nest. Jesus Christ, how have these Shadowhunters survived so long if they're so dense? There's something almost creepy about this fad of asshole love interests; I know it started long ago, with Elizabeth and Mr.

Darcy, experiencing a Renaissance with Bedward, and soaring to unprecedented heights in anything written by Cassandra Clare. I mean it - anything. There's probably an asshole love interest on her shopping list. There's probably one written into the alphabet magnets on her fridge. Will is a nasty piece of shit, and he's rewarded for that by having so many people around him who love him.

Someone like Will, who victim-blames, who taunts women, who throws Tessa's confidence and her affection back in her face, doesn't deserve to be surrounded by people who are constantly forgiving him. I know Clare well enough to be certain that there's some sort of "I push people away to protect them" backstory buried under all of this, but that's not enough. Will is simply a nasty bastard with a piss-poor attitude.

I think my biggest problem with this book is that it's just sort of limp. The setting felt sort of half-hearted, a kind of par-boiled vision of stereotyped London. At one point Jem says to Tessa, "You're thinking, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must winter be like? You'd be surprised.

Winter's actually much the same. This summer I got sunburnt three times and lay out in a tank top in the park, sunbathing with the dogs. I am much farther north than London, which is in the south of England, and experiences a warm temperate summer and mild springs and autumns.

The rainiest months in the UK are the winter months, and April and July. Every few years the dryness in southern England causes a hosepipe ban. So fine, set your book outside of America. That's cool. I'm sick of books about New York. But for god's sake, ask. Read a few blogs.

Ask the people who live there what's it's like. Yeah, it rains in the desert too. Your setting is a sad shoehorn for mean boys and bland girls. This whole Shadowhunter thread just rubs me up the wrong way. I don't like Shadowhunter culture, politics, or mythology. I don't like the way the Shadowhunters mock the Silent Brothers, who are also Shadowhunters but apparently undeserving of respect because they're ugly; I don't like the way the Shadowhunters profess to protect humans but treat them like animals and slap them with a label as demeaning as "mundanes"; I don't like the way they use Downworlders, but how this is excused by the narrative, which tells us that the relationship is edgy between the Clave and Downworlders, but it's fine because the Shadowhunters only hunt the Downworlders whom the narrative dubs "evil" and stroke the ego of those it proclaims "good".

No grey area there, then! As long as we only kill the "bad guys" and have sex with the "good guys" in secret , then it's not about power and control and it's not a privileged few creating a dichotomy out of those they deem less worthy than them.

I'm assuming that this is to swiftly avoid the Shadowhunters being labelled problematic, but it's not the way they use Downworlders that makes them so fucked up. It's the small things, like Jessamine being demonized for not wanting to hunt monsters, the othering of the Silent Brothers, the amount of money that is poured into maintaining the absolutely massive Institutes that house about five Shadowhunters each. The Shadowhunters wonder why demons and warlocks and vampires hate them, and maybe it's not because they hunt them, but because they're so corrupt.

Even things we're supposed to think of as charitable, like Sophie and Thomas and Agatha being employed at the Institute, is fucked up.

The Shadowhunters employing those people is as good as signing their death warrants. How can they possibly justify swanning around and calling humans "mundanes", then inviting them into their home to work for them, then leaving them to die in the name of an exclusive creed that they're not allowed membership of.

How dare the Shadowhunters drag human Sophie, Agatha and Thomas into their war? And of course, after the clockwork fucking steampunk. Ugh creatures attack the Institute, all of our precious Shadowhunters are alive without a scratch, and only the humans who they looked down upon died. The Shadowhunters have no connection to the outside world - they exist inside a glass case of superiority, supposedly protecting humans that they attack with slurs and have no interactions with.

Even in the Mortal Instruments, it was said that Jace, Alec and Isabelle had only met a handful of people their own age, and they never ever mixed with humans. What sort of protectors are they, if the thing they're protecting is looked at with such disgust? Why are the Shadowhunters even doing this job? For their own satisfaction? It's got nothing to do with protecting the world. It's about bloodlust, because they don't care a whit about the everyday "mundane" on the street, unless it's to laugh about their deaths or have sex with them.

God, fuck the Shadowhunters. What dicks. View all 39 comments. Yes, I think this was better than the first trilogy, but my taste kind of changed and I am harder to please than ever!

I was planning to give this 3. I think I like CC quotes because they feel natural and appropriate for the situation without pretending to be something deep that they are not! I think CC fame is all due to her characterizations. The thing I did not like here is that they felt similar to her characters in the first trilogy!

She can write characters into certain molds according to what I have seen up to this moment. The writing is better her because you can tell she improved as a writer, the characters act more like their age, the banter is more balanced but I felt that the characters in the first trilogy were more relatable?! This is weird but I felt the characters in her first trilogy were more memorable and here only a few fall into the memorable category!

There was some plot twists at the end and I could see most of them as the usual case is in YA books but I did not see a couple two! But the story is still intriguing enough for me to pick the second book soon! Summary: Not a bad book, I think it is a bit over-hyped though. I know many people have this list on their favorite books of all time list and I am still interested to know why!

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