Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare

Hey Everyone,
First just let me say that I am sad to see this series finished - although I enjoyed all three books. In this review I do give away some of the ending and key points, so if I were you I would go and read this book right away!

OVERVIEW: Tessa Gray should be happy - aren't all brides happy? Yet as she prepares for her wedding, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to Mortmain, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Mortmain needs only one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. And Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa's heart, will do anything to save her.

REVIEW: I still cannot believe it is over. The Infernal Devices series is certainly one of my favourites. Having started Clockwork Angel only a mere week or so ago, this series has just captivated my attention, acquired my imagination and made a very good impression. Now that I have completed the series, I am not sure what to do.

Cassandra Clare’s books can have so many meaningful quotes that it is impossible to count all of them. That quote bellow from the book essentially sums up my feelings and thoughts while I was reading Clockwork Princess. There was no way this book could have ended without some sort of heartbreak. And believe me the ending was very heartbreaking but also so sweet.

"You know that feeling," she said, "when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing close around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if bring dragged behind a carriage, and you cannot let go or turn the course aside."

Once again, the characters in this novel were amazing and so very relate-able – they were realistic enough in the sense that you cared for most if not all of them. In books I find it quite hard to like a handful of characters, but in this series I had a special admiration for each character (with the exception of the villainous characters). All of the characters were unique and had their own secrets and struggles that made them who they are. After having dealt with so many horrible situations and circumstances, I am happy that Cassandra Clare provides most of them with happy endings.

The finale to a fantastic series could not have been written any better. Clockwork Princess was certainly much more of a darker read in comparison to the first books – it had be in tears through a few scenes. That aside, Cassandra Clare still managed to make me laugh and giggle, even have me shaking my head and smiling in response to what the characters were saying. The love triangle once again was just tear-jerking – there is nothing else I have ever read that can even compare. To be honest I was more towards Will than Jem, but in a way I also liked them equally as characters. Relationships was very important in this book, as it was the last one in the series. Will and Jem’s emotional exchanges were just beautiful. How much they both cared for one another was just wretchedly beautiful. I loved the flashbacks to when they first met and were young children, it was just adorable.   

From the start of the series, I expected Tessa to be the person who was labelled as “damsel” in distress. It was such a nice surprise to have been proved wrong. Even though she cannot fight exactly to the standard of a Shadowhunter, she is impeccably strong in her own way. Her character was so loveable and sweet that it was great to see her grow as a character.

Cassandra Clare has the ability to make me fall in love with a story, with fictional characters, and make it terribly hard for me to let go. The ending was very satisfying – many unanswered questions were answered and everything resolved in a nice conclusion. The epilogue was so lovely that I was crying too much to even read the last page, to close the book was such a struggle. This series was spectacular, and I recommend to anyone who is in search of a new series. Just make sure you have a box of tissues right beside you at all times – you are going to need it. And for now, I farewell a great series until I start to read them again.

OVERALL RATING:

★★★★★ 

Five Stars