<< Who am I? For a long time I pretended to be who I was not, and then I was glad to be able to return to my true self and only discovered that there is no real me to return to >>
-Will Herondale, Clockwork Princess, Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Angel
⭐4/5
Synopsis
The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them…
Clockwork Prince
⭐4/5
Synopsis
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.
With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.
Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?
As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.
Clockwork Princess
⭐4/5
Synopsis
A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.
Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.
As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?
Danger 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.
<< THE INFERNAL DEVICES LACK OF MERCY.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES LACK OF REMEMBER.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES LACK OF NUMBER.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP ARRIVING. >>
-Clockwork Princess, Cassandra Clare
Review
⭐4/5
Author: Cassandra Clare
This saga begins when Tessa is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters, being forced for a few months to change form, something she was not able to do until she was forced. The Dark sisters warn her that she is going to marry with the one who paid them to teach Tessa what she was capable of doing. However, this does not happen, as it is rescued by Will Herondale, a shadowhunter.
Shadowhunters welcome her to the London institute, where Tessa meets Jem, Charlotte, Henry, Gabriel, Sophie, and many other characters. There she forms a home, but the mysterious man who seeks her still desires her, well, she is his weapon to defeat all the shadowhunters.
Infernal Devices is a saga in which I liked how Cassandra Clare narrates, since she very much involved the feelings of the characters. Not to mention the end of the story! I almost got emotional about how beautiful this saga ended. But, we must not deviate from the subject, Cassandra makes the scenarios look so real within one's head. Being a story located in the nineteenth century, the scenarios are even more surprising, because the London of that time was a dark, cold city, because of the "modernization" it suffered. And the towns far from the capital, are landscapes, green, full of fresh air and with the blue sky.
At the same time, she makes the emotions of the characters so intense that one really feels them, from suffering to affection. This story is full of tragic events for the main characters, and knowing their story, you get fond of them.
Likewise, Cassandra presents us with cheesy and even innocent love stories in several couples. As I mentioned before, it is located in the 19th century, so the male characters become very gallant and gentlemanly, so it is romance in the old style. In these love stories, there is a love triangle.
Tessa, loves Will and Jem with all his heart, none above the other. The worst of all? They want her too, and they don't know each other's feelings. The worst of the whole thing? They are parabatai, so one would give up for his love of Tessa, as long as the other is happy. No matter who, Will or Jem, they both want each other's happiness.
I loved this factor, because there is no envy, there is no possessiveness about the girl in question. They both want the other to be happy, no matter who, to the point of giving up who they love. The friendship between Will and Jem is beautiful, both complement each other so well, that it is difficult to read the moments in which both fight or when one suffers for the other. They are friends, they are brother, they are all that another has …
However, the villain, Mortmain, seemed to me to be blinded by revenge, to the point of forgetting all his humanity, if he ever had it. And the Infernal Devices that he thinks seemed too easy to defeat, just like Mortmain himself. In particular, it is not an enemy that made life difficult for shadowhunters to the point of making them unhappy, just worried, scared, maybe. But he was not a being who was afraid of his cunning. or any other quality that villains have.
Apart from this, there were also a couple of issues that seemed incongruous with respect to the Infernal Artifacts. And another that gave me a big surprise, regarding Tessa.
<< Caliph Vathek and his shadow horde
To hell they go, you won't get bored!
Your faith in me will recover,
Unless this detail dislikes you
And my humble gift you ignore >>
-Will Herondale, Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare
Infernal Devices, is not a saga that I loved, Dreamers. In addition, there is the fact that it took me a long time to finish reading it. But, I would read it again for the simple fact of Jem and Will and their beautiful friendship, as well as how dark the atmosphere of 19th-century London seemed.
-Daydream 🌻🌻
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