Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

3 reviews

sudatot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Addiction, Death, Violence, Confinement, Chronic illness, War, Infertility, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Self harm, Physical abuse, Murder, Dysphoria, Body horror, Ableism, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Drug use

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, Sexism, Alcohol, Death of parent, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Infidelity

Minor: Bullying

dododenise's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Reading this was an odd experience. I couldn’t decide whether I liked it, whether the tropes were bothering me, whether the plot was exciting, whether I liked the characters.

Never has a reading experience of mine been so subjective. Maybe that is why I’m not sure whether I really liked this book or not. I’ve first visited the shadowhunter world with 12, 7 years ago. I fell in love with it. I don’t think I’ve ever read more than when I read the mortal instruments series. For this book, I wanted to get that experience back. I’m not a child anymore, but as I still like YA as much as I did then, so I thought it possible. For that I went back and listened to the exact same music I also listened to when I read the mortal instrument. In the past few years, that music had always been able to pull me back into that world and fill me with nostalgia. Therefore, it happened even more while reading a shadowhunter book. It gave me the same feeling. But through gaining back that same feeling, I didn’t know what to make of this book specifically. 
I wasn’t really drawn into this book. I wish it did but I could’ve just left it be in the middle of it and I would’ve been fine with it. But I still enjoyed reading it. 

Will and Jem feel like versions of Jace and Alec. Maybe I just misremember how they really were, but their personalities seemed almost interchangeable. Idk whether that is something to like, considering I like Jace and Alec, or just really lazy.
And then there’s the love triangle of course. I honestly think they would work brilliantly in a polyamorous relationship. They’d bounce of each other so well. They already do now as friends (are they friends? Idk how to describe their current relationship). I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment hoping for it. 

The highlight of this book, without a doubt, was Magnus. He was so much better than I remember him being and I really hope he’ll get a bigger role in the next two books. 

This review ended up being so long it seems I had a lot more thoughts about it than I thought I did. But even from writing this I’m still not sure how much I actually liked the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Addiction, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Drug use

Minor: Sexism, Infidelity, and Alcohol

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

An exciting story with plenty of plot twists and action. Personally I find Victorian era British people to be a bit boring no matter what circumstances so that’s the only reason it’s not 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism and Drug use

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, Infidelity, Infertility, and Rape