Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Clockwork Prince


Wow. Just wow. So as most of you know, Clockwork Prince is the sequel to Clockwork Angel and the second book in The Infernal Devices series. Now I've read reviews online from before the book was officially out in stores, and they all described how amazing it was, but I was surprised how amazing it actually was. Emotional roller coaster? Completely. Maybe Bipolar Prince would work? Clockwork BIPOLAR? Okay, yeah those obviously don't work, but I felt completely and utterly bipolar reading this. One second I'm laughing, then I'm crying, then I'm smiling again to myself, and then I'm angry and gosh, I've never felt so many emotions in one book. And there were so many twists and turns! It was insane.
Now, Tessa annoyed me in this one. I've always liked Tessa, well I did in the last book. She's a strong character and all, but ugh, she annoyed me in Clockwork Prince. At first it was just for my own stupid opinionated reasons, such as "TESSA Y U NO FORGIVE WILL AND START MAKING OUT?!" For a while it was just stupid stuff like that, like "Gosh Tessa, I know you're being a strong character, but can you be weak for just one second and fall back into Will's arms even if he was a jerk to you?" But then after a while I felt like some of the things she said were kind of rude or something. Change it from old-timey talk to modern day talk, she'd probably sound pretty rude. Some of her decisions and the things she says just irk me. And half of the time she's lying to herself trying to push her feelings for Will away, and denying that she has them. And she really was just downright rude at times and just some of the things she did. Ugh, Tessa.
Cassie Clare gets better with each book she writes, I swear. I really really like the characters in this series. And the infernal devices were mentioned in this one! I don't recall it being mentioned in Clockwork Angel, perhaps it was, but I just remember when I saw the infernal devices mentioned I was interested since that's the title of the series of course.
There were lots of new characters as well! At the very beginning two new replacement servants came for the ones the institute lost in the previous book. Then there was Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood, I think Gabriel was in the last one, but Gideon was new, and there was a lot more of the Lightwood brothers in this one. I think it's really fun reading about the ancestors of the characters from The Mortal Instruments series. If I see a familiar last name it just seems exciting:) There was also a lot more Sophie (the servant) in this book I think, and I really like Sophie. She's a sweet character, and it's interesting as she's human and all. There's also some Magnus in this one and I completely love Magnus;)
Now I can't say I was completely happy with the ending, but I can't tell if Cassandra Clare is setting up something or not. Who knows, that woman works in mysterious ways;) I just recommend to either read this ASAP because it's simply amazing ooor, put it off as long as you can so you don't have to torture yourself for another year until Clockwork Princess comes out. I'm not sure if I can wait that long. Clockwork Prince I think was better than Clockwork Angel, and although a lot of the time I didn't like what was going on, or what happened, it was still SO GOOD. It's so hard to explain and there really are no words to describe this book.

1 comment:

  1. Oh. MY. GOD. This book was so freaking amazing, I literally felt a piece of me DIE when I flipped the last page and realized that it was over. I kept reading right up until the last word of the story and was honestly not expecting it to end that way. I totally agree that Cassandra Clare gets better with every book. But the woman loves her cliffhangers, and they are KILLING ME!!!! Can't wait for Clockwork Princess!

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