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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
if you were to take the cast of characters from the mortal instruments and put them in victorian england instead of 2000s new york, you would have the cast of characters in the infernal devices.
will and jace: stubborn, obstinate, thinks they are better than everyone else, condescending, unable to follow orders, says incredibly hurtful and demeaning things to the people that love and care for them to inevitably be forgiven by those around them because well that’s just will or that’s just jace, liars, pretends to hate FMC to “protect” them
jem and alec: parabatai to the mmc, reasonable, responsible, trustworthy, voice of reason, skilled warrior who tends to avoid combat for some reason or another, constantly making excuses for will and jace
jessamine and isabelle: a lot of their stories are centered around being a woman and the struggles a woman of their respective era would face, feels left out by the boys, wary of other women, “boy crazy,” really unique weapon (parasol and bracelet whip), dry wittiness
tessa and clary: entire personality is being different from everyone else, let will and jace constantly disrespect them to instantly forgive despite there never actually being an apology, has a family member that makes everything infinitely worse (nate and jocelyn, i am looking at you), constantly trying to prove themselves to the shadowhunters, secret magic powers the world has never seen, kind of in the way tbh, honestly just a very bland FMC,
magnus and magnus: magnus
will and jace: stubborn, obstinate, thinks they are better than everyone else, condescending, unable to follow orders, says incredibly hurtful and demeaning things to the people that love and care for them to inevitably be forgiven by those around them because well that’s just will or that’s just jace, liars, pretends to hate FMC to “protect” them
jem and alec: parabatai to the mmc, reasonable, responsible, trustworthy, voice of reason, skilled warrior who tends to avoid combat for some reason or another, constantly making excuses for will and jace
jessamine and isabelle: a lot of their stories are centered around being a woman and the struggles a woman of their respective era would face, feels left out by the boys, wary of other women, “boy crazy,” really unique weapon (parasol and bracelet whip), dry wittiness
tessa and clary: entire personality is being different from everyone else, let will and jace constantly disrespect them to instantly forgive despite there never actually being an apology, has a family member that makes everything infinitely worse (nate and jocelyn, i am looking at you), constantly trying to prove themselves to the shadowhunters, secret magic powers the world has never seen, kind of in the way tbh, honestly just a very bland FMC,
magnus and magnus: magnus
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
in the first few chapters we meet almost all the main characters,tessa,will,jem and so on.tessa is kidnapped and trained to be able to change at will by the dark sisters,one who is a warlock and the other a demon.tessa is being groomed and trained for the magister and is saved by the shadowhunters after two and a half months.she stays with them in the institute and we see her working hard to save her brother from the magistrate whom they think is de quincey,a vampire.it turns out that nate,tessa's brother is behind everything that has happened to tessa and the magistrate is a human named mortmain.the book kept me on edge
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of my favourite series of all time. Never fails to disappoint.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-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:
Yes
emotional
funny
medium-paced
This book is basically City of Bones but worse? A girl is thrown into a world she didn't know existed, and finds out she has some special power that is wanted by the enemy. A mysterious beautiful boy with hidden emotional turmoil comes on her path, and his parabatai friend carries a dark secret that threatens his life as a Shadowhunter. A Shadowhunter girl, who supposedly doesn't care for anything, is a fierce warrior and isn't entirely fond of the newcomer who brings in so many troubles.
Sound familiar?
Basically all of the characters in Clockwork Angel were weaker versions of the characters in The Mortal Instruments series: Tessa was as stubborn as Clary but so preoccupied with being prim and proper that half of the story was about that rather than about the fact that she was supposedly a warlock but not really and oh yeah her brother was also kidnapped by the Magister I guess we should find him. Will was basically Jace (I mean they're related and all) but didn't have the golden hair (thank God) and wasn't as funny or sarcastic. I liked Jem (I also liked Alec) because he seemed true to his character, as I liked Jessie, who despite being a raging antifeminist (I guess that's not as weird in that time though), was really enjoyable to me. Tessa and Will were extremely flat and one-sided and lacked fire, but thankfully Jem and Jessie made up for that, as did Sophie and Charlotte who seemed more like side characters unfortunately. So basically this entire story was a retelling of City of Bones with some added characters and thrown into the Victorian Era, which wasn't even used all that much to tell the story, so really, why was it put there? Perhaps because it sells? Yikes.
Another thing that bothered me, though I'm not entire certain it's fair, is that Tessa was apparently super poor in New York in the 1870s. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have known or read as much as she did if she really was that poor, considering I'm pretty sure she'd been living in a tenement back then and I don't know about you but I've seen them and they're not a place where you'd care about being prim and proper. Sure she'd have grown up more rich before her parents died and she had to live with her aunt, but come on.
I have the rest of the series here so I will be reading it but this book was so dreadfully boring I can't even. City of Bones wasn't my favorite either but at least there I gasped out loud when something happened. Here I already knew 900% of the time what the plot twists were going to be. I guess the only thing I can give Clare is that her writing really improved. I thought I'd be annoyed by how she tried to make the British characters sound British but I wasn't as much as I thought I would. The writing was much less cheesy and didn't have terrible metaphors, so go her I guess. Blah.
Sound familiar?
Basically all of the characters in Clockwork Angel were weaker versions of the characters in The Mortal Instruments series: Tessa was as stubborn as Clary but so preoccupied with being prim and proper that half of the story was about that rather than about the fact that she was supposedly a warlock but not really and oh yeah her brother was also kidnapped by the Magister I guess we should find him. Will was basically Jace (I mean they're related and all) but didn't have the golden hair (thank God) and wasn't as funny or sarcastic. I liked Jem (I also liked Alec) because he seemed true to his character, as I liked Jessie, who despite being a raging antifeminist (I guess that's not as weird in that time though), was really enjoyable to me. Tessa and Will were extremely flat and one-sided and lacked fire, but thankfully Jem and Jessie made up for that, as did Sophie and Charlotte who seemed more like side characters unfortunately. So basically this entire story was a retelling of City of Bones with some added characters and thrown into the Victorian Era, which wasn't even used all that much to tell the story, so really, why was it put there? Perhaps because it sells? Yikes.
Another thing that bothered me, though I'm not entire certain it's fair, is that Tessa was apparently super poor in New York in the 1870s. I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have known or read as much as she did if she really was that poor, considering I'm pretty sure she'd been living in a tenement back then and I don't know about you but I've seen them and they're not a place where you'd care about being prim and proper. Sure she'd have grown up more rich before her parents died and she had to live with her aunt, but come on.
I have the rest of the series here so I will be reading it but this book was so dreadfully boring I can't even. City of Bones wasn't my favorite either but at least there I gasped out loud when something happened. Here I already knew 900% of the time what the plot twists were going to be. I guess the only thing I can give Clare is that her writing really improved. I thought I'd be annoyed by how she tried to make the British characters sound British but I wasn't as much as I thought I would. The writing was much less cheesy and didn't have terrible metaphors, so go her I guess. Blah.