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Clockwork Prince
by Cassandra Clare
God - I´m glad I finally finished this. This is by far the worst book I´ve read from Cassandra Clare. (I still need to read Clockwork Princess and Lady Midnight, so maybe there is something even worse waiting for me.)
I´ll go through the things I liked first:
Sophie and Gideon: I like their relationship, that Sophie is learning to fight and Gideon´s conflict with his father.
Charlotte and Henry: I enjoyed them in the first book too. They compliment each other well and the scene in which they talk about their feelings is very cute. (Even though I thought "WTF?! Have you never talked about anything substantial before you got married? How are you married for years and not talk about your feelings at all?!") I saw the pregnancy coming as soon as Charlotte was sick in the warehouse. Worst foreshadowing ever.
Demon Pox. A Lightwood that has Demon Pox. I hope Maryse and Robert know about this. They would hate that.
Woolsey Scott. I love him. I want him to be together with Magnus forever. (Well... until Alec shows up of course.)
What did I hate:
EVERYTHING ELSE!
The tedious love triangle was embarrasing to read through sometimes. There is zero chemistry between Tessa and ANYONE. It also felt incredibly forced that Tessa had to go everywhere with either Jem or Will and once even with both of them.
Will´s curse is so unbelievably stupid. Seriously - even a 12 year old could figure that out. And HOW didn´t he notice that there wasn´t a course later on? Charlotte clearly loved Will and she never died. Nobody can be THAT stupid!
Magnus and Camille´s break up, it was so anticlimactic. I also didn´t buy into their realtionship at all and Magnus didn´t seem too heartbroken over ending it with Camille.
The endless descriptions of Tessa´s fucking clothes and her hair. I DON´T CARE WHAT DRESS SHE´S WEARING ALL THE TIME! I don´t care how she does her hair up. I also don´t care for the numerous mentions of Will´s and Jem´s eyes. We get it - Will = blue eyes, dark hair - Jem = everything silver.
The making out scenes were so badly written. I rolled my eyes at almost all of them.
The plot barely moved forward. Most of the book was about the love triangle.
Everyone was so dumb. Jem misunderstands what Tessa is saying, Tessa misunderstands what Will is telling her, etc. etc. Almost none of the dialogue seemed realistic.
And don´t even get me started on Jem and Will not realizing they are both in love with Tessa. These guys are PARABATAI - how could they NOT notice?! (Then again, I think that Clare has underused the parabatai-bond a lot in all of her books. In TMI Alec and Jace don´t really seem to be parabatai up until the last book.)
I just hope that Clockwork Princess won´t be as horrible as Clockwork Prince. Because I need to keep reading all the Shadowhunter books, because... Magnus.
I´ll go through the things I liked first:
Sophie and Gideon: I like their relationship, that Sophie is learning to fight and Gideon´s conflict with his father.
Charlotte and Henry: I enjoyed them in the first book too. They compliment each other well and the scene in which they talk about their feelings is very cute. (Even though I thought "WTF?! Have you never talked about anything substantial before you got married? How are you married for years and not talk about your feelings at all?!") I saw the pregnancy coming as soon as Charlotte was sick in the warehouse. Worst foreshadowing ever.
Demon Pox. A Lightwood that has Demon Pox. I hope Maryse and Robert know about this. They would hate that.
Woolsey Scott. I love him. I want him to be together with Magnus forever. (Well... until Alec shows up of course.)
What did I hate:
EVERYTHING ELSE!
The tedious love triangle was embarrasing to read through sometimes. There is zero chemistry between Tessa and ANYONE. It also felt incredibly forced that Tessa had to go everywhere with either Jem or Will and once even with both of them.
Will´s curse is so unbelievably stupid. Seriously - even a 12 year old could figure that out. And HOW didn´t he notice that there wasn´t a course later on? Charlotte clearly loved Will and she never died. Nobody can be THAT stupid!
Magnus and Camille´s break up, it was so anticlimactic. I also didn´t buy into their realtionship at all and Magnus didn´t seem too heartbroken over ending it with Camille.
The endless descriptions of Tessa´s fucking clothes and her hair. I DON´T CARE WHAT DRESS SHE´S WEARING ALL THE TIME! I don´t care how she does her hair up. I also don´t care for the numerous mentions of Will´s and Jem´s eyes. We get it - Will = blue eyes, dark hair - Jem = everything silver.
The making out scenes were so badly written. I rolled my eyes at almost all of them.
The plot barely moved forward. Most of the book was about the love triangle.
Everyone was so dumb. Jem misunderstands what Tessa is saying, Tessa misunderstands what Will is telling her, etc. etc. Almost none of the dialogue seemed realistic.
And don´t even get me started on Jem and Will not realizing they are both in love with Tessa. These guys are PARABATAI - how could they NOT notice?! (Then again, I think that Clare has underused the parabatai-bond a lot in all of her books. In TMI Alec and Jace don´t really seem to be parabatai up until the last book.)
I just hope that Clockwork Princess won´t be as horrible as Clockwork Prince. Because I need to keep reading all the Shadowhunter books, because... Magnus.