
Clockwork Princess The Infernal Devices #3
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My 13th reason and my roman empire. No words can describe what I feel for this book and for these characters

this one hurt so much but it was good and at the end my babies were happy

if someone finds little pieces of a shattered heart around please let me know because they’re mine

** spoiler alert ** I couldn't eat for days because of the ending lmfao. It's one of the most painful epilogues I've ever read in my entire life and up to this day I still can't read the ending without crying. Herongraystairs love for each other is astronomical. BEST LOVE TRIANGLE TROPE EVER WRITTEN. LOVED IT AND HATE IT AT THE SAME TIME FOR MAKING ME CRY. **** I am so sad because Jem was never IN HIS LIFE ever prepared to see Will die. Between the two of them, it was a silent truth that Jem will be the one to go first, so being at Will's deathbed was like a blow to him, making him realize the fact that Will was not immortal and that someday he would die and it will only be him and Tessa from now on. The ending was a shock to me because I never thought Jem would be relieved of being a Silent Brother after 130 years. And throughout all those years, he remained who he is because of his love for Will and Tessa. *** I wanted more Gideon and Sophie moments. I wanted more Gabriel and Cecily moments. Updated review: 06/21/2022 I have no words to describe how painful this was to read. And I need therapy because this book FINISHED me. I feel like I was ripped apart then sewn back together. My love for these characters? THROUGH THE ROOF. I literally could not eat for days, suffered a fever from crying so hard, and had to go on like nothing happened. NOTHING. Like it didn’t give mental illness just from that Epilogue.

what if this was my last straw

LAST READ: april 30, 2013 5/5 for the epic feels, the laughter followed by the crying then the laughing whilst crying, then the sobbing, then the smiles, then AN ENGLISH MAJOR BEING REDUCED TO SPEAKING IN GIBBERISH, then the sobbing, then the uncontrollable shaking (in anger) then the more crying, then the smiling and the laughing, then the good feeling in my heart, then my heart being torn out of my chest. Wow, Cassandra Clare. Five days of a TOTAL emotional roller coaster. the following spoiler catcher REALLY DOES contain spoilers. If you have not read the LAST PAGE of CP2, do not look into the spoiler catcher. (view spoiler)[I am not okay with this. I’m just freaking not. So, what? Jem died, but he wasn’t dead. HE became a Silent Brother and for some UNKNOWN reason, when you become a Silent Brother, you have to change your name. WHY IS THAT? Explain it to me, Cassandra Clare. If that was just for the sole purpose of throwing us off to the fact that it was Jem, I WILL MURDER YOU. (not really, I want to read TLH). So then, Tessa and Will got married, and I had happy feels. And then, EPILOGUE: 2008. that was, what, six years ago? And now, Tessa reflects, telling us about how Will is dead and what happened and how EVERYONE else is dead, and just Cassie Clare making me cry again. And then we’ve got Jem coming up, and, whoops! surprise: He’s actually Jem! He’s not a Silent Brother anymore. WTF? Apparently, they found a cure for his Yin Fen addiction. They found a cure! Jem says: “Another story of Lightwoods and Herondales and Fairchilds.” Um, TMI anybody? Did I miss something, or does this happen if CoHF? Also, um, another Thing. First we had Tessa and Jem Engaged. And I was okay with that. I was excited. But then he died. And I wasn’t okay with that. I said “I almost wish he was a Silent Brother instead!” And then, just as got used to him being dead, BAM! He’s a Silent Brother, and I’m not okay with that, and I’m like “He might as well be dead!” and now it’s about 130 years later, and he’s not a Silent Brother, and he’s not dead, but Will is and now he’s kissing Tessa, AND I’M NOT OKAY WITH THAT. And, omigod, I just realized in TLH he’ll probably be a Silent Brother again. Why do you play volleyball with my heart, Cassandra Clare? Don’t I already hurt enough? (hide spoiler)]

The way I didn’t realize just how much of this book I had taken into myself when I read it years ago. I read it and I read myself in the pages. This series really hits, it was good when I was 13 and it’s good now.

To be truthful the ending was predictable, I knew what was going to happen before I even started reading the book and I think Cassandra Clare knew this which is why she inserted that amazing epilogue. I think it brought the perfect closure to the series and it made up for its predictability. Hands down one of the best endings to a trilogy.

OMG OMG OMG OMG this was such a roller coaster 😩 This book... I can’t even write how I’m feeling right now 😭😍

i don’t know how I’m going to go back to the mortal instruments after this P.S I LOVE THEM SO MUCH I CANT GO ON WITHOUT THEM😭😭

5 stars for the epilogue bc jem >>>>> ugly will
5 stars for letting will d--
minus .5 star for will and tessa scenes that i literally skipped (so glad i skipped them all like they did not happen), another -.5 for long-winded will and bailos scenes that i also skipped
minus one full star for cecily the unwarranted, unnecessary inserted character having more exposure than will jem tessa combined
wouldnt have finished this under a day without skipping so much pages, but i cried with every jem scenes + (jem with tessa) so there goes a star i guess 😒
book 2 was the best :>

I love this book so much! It’s beautifully written with so much love! Cassandra Clare is an incredible writer and I can’t wait to read her other books!

MY. HEART. Will Herondale forever!

4,5 stars

Clockwork Princess: 5/5 Each and every Infernal Device book is better than its predecessor. This book is utterly perfect in every single way. I absolutely love it down to my very bones. The amount of love I have for Tessa, Will, and Jem is UNHEALTHY. This book is painful but in the best way possible, and I even read it on Valentine's day. Cue the waterworks folks. I had no idea I would get this attached to the Shadowhunter series and I am so glad I stuck with it to get to this truly wonderful book. The plot is amazing as usual, and of course, Cassandra Clare writes beautifully. This is not news, but the way she depicts and paints these characters in the context of their surroundings is truly unique to her universe is astounding. The love triangle between Tessa, Will, and Jem is the best love triangle I have ever read. It's not full of pain, but true love all for one another. I have never encountered this in a book before. It's the way I was crying tears of joy and sadness at the same time for me. This series is a journey and I have just found out the series converge into one within TMI part two. I am so excited to continue this journey with the characters I have completely fallen in love with. Everything about this book is absolutely amazing, and if you're struggling to get through TMI part one, let me tell you it is so worth it to get to this book (and clockwork prince before it). I am truly so excited to pick up the next book in this series. I just cannot get enough.

Sheesh I'm bawling my eyes out over here... I honestly didn't know what to expect out of the epilogue, like I've always heard everyone say how they couldn't stop crying but I didn't know what the hell to expect but holy hell I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS I LOVED IT SO MUCH HELP. I adored this book and the trilogy in general. When I started re-reading clockwork angel I did it with the intention of reading it just to close a chapter in my life as Nephilim and thought I wasn't gonna read more of the shadowhunters but now I know I'm gonna fucking read every last book of this fucking universe, however long it takes me. (I think I'm even gonna re-read the 4 or 5 books of the original saga I read like six years ago because I don't remember shit).

by the angel...

** spoiler alert ** my review spoilers: too much tears and sobbing. i've never felt a rollercoaster feeling and so much crying when i finished a book series. i love tessa and will and jem. jem is a pure-hearted cinnamon roll. and will is so selfless and his self-sacrificing to save tessa for jem (and his, even he couldn't tell it out loud). how could i'm not fall in love with them? how??? and when tessa changed to angel ithuriel i felt awe about her sacrifice. all good characters in this book was made their own sacrifice—even gabriel and gideon. summary: i was sobbing, and still sobbing when i remember particular scenes in this book. trust me, prepare tissues and lock yourself in your bedroom while you read. TID SERIES IS AN EXCELLENCE

This book was absolutely amazing but the ending broke my heart

My heart did not handle this book well. Prepare for tissues when you reach to the last few chapters. I am dead.

Shadowhunter books are like a trashy CW show you can’t help but love. I liked the setting in this trilogy. My main problem with Cassandra Clare’s books is that there are far too many characters and far too many are similar to one another. I felt myself searching up Shadowhunter family trees in order to understand who was who. The constant letters throughout the book sometimes slowed down the plot, even though they were meant to advance it. As much as I had problems with this book, I was still invested in the Will, Tessa and Jem dynamic.

4,5 ⭐️

I'm so happy I read that trilogy.

god i weep
Highlights




I say the tomb which on the dead is shut
Opens the Heavenly hall;
And what we here for the end of all things put
Is the first step of all.
—Victor Hugo, "At Villequier"

The measure of love is to love without measure.
—attributed to Saint Augustine
My favorite this whole series

Come; let us go: your cheeks are pale;
But half my life I leave behind:
Methinks my friend is richly shrined;
But I shall pass; my work will fail....
I hear it now, and o'er and o'er,
Eternal greetings to the dead;
And “Ave, Ave, Ave," said,
"Adieu, adieu," for evermore.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H."


For till the thunder in the trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another
—Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Laus Veneris

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
—William Blake, "Jerusalem"

Like wire-pulled automatons,
Slim silhouetted skeletons
Went sidling through the slow quadrille,
Then took each other by the hand,
And danced a stately saraband;
Their laughter echoed thin and shrill.
—Oscar Wilde, "The Harlot's House"

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,
Though I am damned for it we two will lie
And burn
—Charlotte Mew, "In Nunhead Cemetery"

For this alone on Death I wreak
The wrath that garners in my heart:
He put our lives so far apart
We cannot hear each other speak.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H"

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Lady Clara Vere de Vere"

O Love! who bewailest
The frailty of all things here,
Why choose you the frailest
For your cradle, your home, and your bier?
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Lines: When the Lamp Is Shattered”

Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
—Shakespeare, Macbeth


Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,
He hath awaken'd from the dream of life:
Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. We decay
Like corpses in a chanel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats"

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins, “No Worse, There Is None"

Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly! tell,
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender, or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
—Alexander Pope, "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer"

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friends, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.
—Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book IV

The liquid ore he drained
Into fit moulds prepared; from which he formed
First his own tools; then, what might else be wrought
Fusil or graven in metal.
—John Milton, Paradise Lost

You call it hope —that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.
—Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane"

If the past year were offered me again,
And choice of good and ill before me set
Would I accept the pleasure with the pain
Or dare to wish that we had never met?
— Augusta, Lady Gregory, "If the Past Year Were Offered Me Again"