Clockwork Prince is the second book in Cassandra Clare's second Shadowhunter series: The Infernal Devices. If follows the events that take place from the previous book.

I do discuss some spoilers that had occurred in this book. That's a massive warning. If you'd like to read my review on the previous book in this series, it will be linked here.

I don't even know where to start with my review.

I absolutely love this world more and more as we dive into it. I say this in every review, but I'm really happy you guys pushed me to continue this series after debating whether or not I should when I read City of Bones.

I heard emmmabooks on Youtube (she is also Shadowhunters obsessed) talk about how, with every book Cassandra Clare writes, it gets better and I definitely agree with that statement. You can tell that her writing progresses throughout each book and it really shows.

With that being said, this book was indeed enjoyable, but not in the same way as Clockwork Angel, if that makes sense.

There isn't much occurring in this book other than world building and backstory; unlike the previous book where everything was happening at once. I didn't really enjoy the lack of events that this book had, but I'll admit that the world and character building really made up for it.

I love Will as a character; he's so complex because of his backstory and I love that we really get to see that from him. We get to see him really vulnerable and leaving the institute because of a curse he thought he had for so many years but in reality, never really had. We find out about his family, and how heartbreaking it is when he finds out his best friend is engaged to the love of his life. He's a little cinnamon roll to me, he's definitely added to the book boyfriend list, I genuinely just love his character and I'm really happy we got more backstory from him.

I also really love how we got to see more of Sophie. I really like her character. I love how, even though she is a servant in the institute, she's never treated as one. It's really enjoyable seeing her being incorporated more in the plot and I'm hoping she's a prominent character in the next book, as well as the rest of the other books. (I'm also hoping something blooms between her and Gideon. We ship.)

We're still a little iffy on Tessa's back story, but I'm definitely okay with that because I know it'll all flood at once in the next book and probably slap me in the face.

The only probablem I really have with Tessa, is that she's okay about being engaged to Jem, even though she still has feelings for Will. Like I understand why she did it, but I still don't think its right. I really do love Jem and Tessa together though, but I'm not excited for the heartbreak Jem is going to have to go through when he finds out how Tessa really feels.

I also thought the whole relationship with Tessa and Jem was a little rushed. I mean, don't get me wrong, I do ship. But there wasn't really much of a flirtatious vibe, other than that one time Tessa was in Jem's room. I feel like a relationship between Will and Tessa would be more reasonable because of their connection throughout these last two books, so we'll see how this love triangle unfolds.

Something that I don't think I remember mentioning in my last review is that I love that Tessa and Will love for literature (more reason to love Will, just saying) because they constantly make classic book references. I'm currently obsessed with Classic Novels so I always get a little giddy when I see them talking about certain books.

I also thought it was so cute how Jem wanted to write a poem for Tessa because of that same topic. Like he's really trying for her.

As always, this book made me feel a lot of things. I laughed at a lot of parts which is quite usual for any book, especially the Shadowhunter books, but I feel like I felt more with this book than the last.

I was truly devastated reading the scene where Will confessed his love for Tessa to her, and she tells him that she's engaged with Jem. Heck, even though I hate Nate, I felt so sad when Tessa watched him die. I feel like, because there is a lot of character development in this book, you feel a lot more than the other ones.

I really did enjoy this book. I'm so obsessed with this world now and I can't stop reading the books.

With that being said, look out for all my Shadowhunter reviews in the next little while. Because I feel like that will almost be all I'm reading in the next coming weeks.

Who is your favourite Shadowhunter? Let me know in the comments section or on my Instagram!

Happy Thursday, loves!

Can you guys believe it's already May?! I thought 2018 flew by, but 2019 seems to be going by even faster!

I read a lot in the month of April; a total of 10 books and I'm holding up strong with my reading challenge which really excites me. I believe I'm currently 12 books ahead of schedule which is wow because I'm super happy with all the reading I've been doing this year!

You guys know the drill with my wrap ups, so I thought I'd stick with pretty short intros now. With that being said, let's get into the books I read in April of 2019!!

This book follows our main character Tod Hewitt who is the only boy in the town full of men. Ever since the settlers were infected by a germ, it not only killed the females in their area,  but also gives the settlers the ability to hear each other's thoughts. When a personal disaster occurs a month before Todd becomes a man, he is forced to leave his town with just his dog. That's where he finds a girl. The first female he's ever seen. But why is she there, and why hasn't she died with the germ like every other female?

I haven't had a "what the heck" feeling with a book in so long. But this book gives me exactly that.

Ending with a cliffhanger, theres so much to this book than I was expecting. And like the review on the cover says, it's so freaking hard to put down! 

I didn't intentionally want to read this, but stumbled across it while I was browsing my bookstore. I remembered that Tom Holland (whom I am very much so trash for) had just finished filming the Chaos Walking movie, which is based on this trilogy by Patrick Ness. I had no clue what it was about, but thought I'd pick it up and read it before the movie comes out anyways.

I'm so freaking happy I did.

This book is so addicting, and so well written that it's just so hard to be a responsible human being and not sit on your butt and binge read this book (which is exactly what I did lol).

I don't think I've actually read a Patrick Ness book prior to picking this up, but wow his writing is incredible. I love how it's so detailed, yet he doesn't give everything away at once. Like, you sit there questioning what this whole "Noise" situation is and slowly (but not too slow) you get little pieces of information throughout the book.

I also really liked how personal we get with the main character.

We get an inside view of Todd's thought process but also, the way it's written is very interesting. It doesn't necessarily feel like journal entries, but it feels like Todd, himself is writing the book which is really interesting. Some words aren't spelled correctly because Todd wasn't able to go to school, leaving him very minimal knowledge on how to read or write so I thought this concept was quite interesting. The only time I've ever seen this included in a novel was in Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and I loved this element in that book as well.

Viola, on the other hand, reminded me a lot of Eleven from Stranger Things for some reason. She's very smart, but selective with the knowledge she decides to deliver.

I also love the relationship development between the two characters and I want to protect them like they're my children.

I'm not really sure if I had any negative problems with this book, to be quite honest. Not saying that it was absolutely perfect and you won't find any flaws while reading it. But for myself, I was quite satisfied. Most of the time, I forgot I was reading and it felt like I was watching a movie through my head. The imagery in this novel is amazing to me.

I guess the only negative thing I can point out is that, at the beginning, I had a hard time keeping track of the characters. Like I couldn't remember who Aaron was until he becomes a prominent antagonist. I also noticed that at the beginning of the novel, a ton of random characters were thrown in with very broad backstories described but then never mentioned again. I'm not sure if they'll be in the next coming books, but if not, I find mentioning those characters useless.

My all time favourite thing about this novel, was how they added a dog as a main character. And because he and all the other animals were affected by the Noise, you can hear everything they say. Manchee, Todd's dog was my absolute favourite character. He ends up being killed by Aaron near the book and that is a death I will never get over.

The ending is what solidified my love for this book. With every book, you expect the end to resolve everything and have a happily ever after element. But not this one. We're stuck with a cliffhanger where Viola ends up getting shot and we're not sure whether or not she'll live.

I mean, I feel like she will (I'm being hopeful - another "happily ever after feeling") but it gives you that feeling where, you'd definitely have to read the next book to be sure.

I absolutely loved this book. It gave me the same nostalgic element that The 5th Wave gave me when I read it, around the time when I first joined the book community. I haven't read much dystopian since then, but I love how theres a lot of similarities between the two.

What's a book that gives you nostalgia? Let me know in the comments below or on my Instagram! I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Clockwork Angel is the first book in Cassandra Clare's series: The Infernal Devices, which is a prequel to her first series The Mortal Instruments. Based in London, this book follows Tessa in the year 1878, where she descends into the dark supernatural world, looking for her missing brother Nathaniel. Tessa realizes that her only allies in this journey are demon-slaying Shadowhunters and not too long after, they find themselves after the Pandemoniom Club; a secret organization filled with vampires, demons, warlocks and humans ready to out rule the British Empire, Tessa and her allies are the only ones who can stop them.


I loved this read so much.

Lately, I've been really drawn to the Shadowhunter world. City of Bones really threw me off because I really didn't like it. But once I progressed with the series, it started to get a lot better for me.

On Cassandra Clare's website, she wrote the order you should read all these books in and I've finished the first three books in The Mortal Instruments series and now onto The Infernal Devices before I finish up TMI.

Right off the bat, this series is so much better than The Mortal Instruments. Although I'm starting to love TMI more than I did when I started, I feel like Clockwork Angel was an amazing intro book for a series. It's written so well, and the characters are amazing.

There really isn't anything negative I can say about this book. I guess the only problem I had was that there is a lot of characters in this book. I'm a really visual person when it comes to characters. It's really hard for me to visualize what people look like (which is how I keep track of them) so when there's a lot of characters, I try to look up fan art or something, but it was hard to find art for a handful of characters like Agatha and Camille. So I was so confused when they mentioned someone who wasn't the main: Tessa, Will, Jem, Charlotte, Henry, Jessamine.

Other than that, I loved this book so much. I love the characters I can remember though. I think Will might be my favourite of them all (New book boyfriend? Possibly.) I loved this little banters with every character. I really need to stop loving every angsty male character, but he made me laugh so much with his sarcastic remarks and witty jokes towards everyone and everything. Absolutely relatable.

Tessa herself, was a way better female lead than Clary, I thought. Definitely an improvement in my opinion. I thought Clary was annoying until City of Glass, whereas, I really love Tessa from the first page we meet her. (Which is technically page one.)

Typically, there were scenes, like for example when Tessa became way too trusting of her brother (which we find out, is actually an antagonist in this novel) where I'd be really annoyed with the main character, but I really wasn't for Tessa. I truly felt like she didn't see it coming and honestly, neither did I. I think she actually used her brain a lot more than most female main characters do - which is annoying that authors write them that way, but that's just my opinion.

Jem is also an incredibly precious character. I think his sweetness, and understanding personality really evens out Will's sassy, angsty personality so the duo themselves are perfect. Also, I love how much Jem and Will care about each other. I know they're Parabatai, so I guess they kind of have to, but I love them so much because of their relationship on their own.

Everyone in the institute just had a really close relationship which I loved and understood each other perfectly. I noticed that with all of Cassie's books. I say it all the time and I'll forever say it; I really wish I was a Shadowhunter. The world and everything is so brilliant.

Speaking of worlds, I think Cassandra Clare does an amazing job with world building. I even admit it with The Mortal Instruments, I love that she takes our own world with real life places and puts a fantasy twist on it. One of my favourite elements of Urban Fantasy is that, because it's based in our world, I tend to appreciate it more. We can walk around the different areas of New York that The Mortal Instruments has mentioned and the same for London.

For example, I've only been to the UK once when I was young, but I could pick apart certain places that they mention in this novel. I also love how theres a scene where Jem takes Tessa to the Blackfriars Bridge which is actually a real place in London, so I thought that was really cool.

I really liked the plot twists in this book as well, like the whole Magister situation where we all thought it was de Quincey but sike, it's actually Mortmain. Yup, I was shook as well.

I just overall enjoyed this book. I feel like, because it was written so well and it was so easy to be engulfed by the content, I didn't even realize I was reading a book. I felt like I was with these characters on their missions. I felt the need to hug Will while he's drinking Holy Water, trying to get the vampire blood out of his system, or hit Nate in the head with every possible object at the Institute for treating Tessa the way he did. I felt like I was with these characters, experiencing everything and I think that's why I love this book so much, and this world as well.

I honestly don't want to read any other book right now, just Shadowhunters books because of this. It's so hard to find this strong of a connection to certain characters (okay, not really, but still) I just want to spend as much time as I can with them.

Whats your favourite Shadowhunter rune? Let me know in the comments or on my Instagram!