Dare I say Cassandra Clare has done it again!!!!! And I cannot wait for Clockwork Prince...its a whole year away!!!!
Anyhow, I love this book just as much as I love the MI series(can't wait for the second cycle to begin either).
My Synopsis: Tessa Gray leaves New York, bound for England (set in the time of Queen Victoria's reign) to meet with her brother, Nathaniel. Upon arriving, she is Kidnapped by the evil Dark sister's and she learns she has a rare supernatural ability.While taking cover after the escape/rescue by William Herondale, shadowhunter, Tessa learns there is a whole new terrifying world full of supernatural creatures called Downworlders. Whle staying with the shadowhunter's, they are helping her to find her brother and she is helping them with her unusual powers.Tessa finds herself fascinated by both Jem, and beautiful, kind by mysterious boy and Will, whom doesn't let anyone get close with his volitile and hard emotional sheild.
Tessa finds herself in a tough place to decide to stick by n seek out her brother or to help her new shadowhunter friends, who are in the midst of uncovering plots to kind their kind.
My Review:
This book was great beginning to end. Tessa is a wonderful character. She in kind when she needs to be and strong when it is necessary. I believe she handled everything well for all the major changes that took place in such a short time. And Will, even though he seems to be ....well a jerk most of the time, it works for him for now. I know in the next books to come we will find out just why her is like that. I do believe he is hinding something but there is something greater in him to be discovered. Jem would be the perfect gentlemen and I love him greatly as a character. He is calm cool and collected despite the hardships of his young life.
The plot was paced well. There was never too much revealed at one time and always enough there to leave you wanting more. I absolutely love the small huints of The Mortal Instruments books withing the book and I love that Magnus Bane played a small part as well.
This book to exceeded its well deserved 5/5 stars. Well done Cassandra!!!
Favourite quote's/passages:
""Dinner?" After hearing such a deal about Nephilim, and Downworlders, adn fearies adn vampires and demons, the prospect of dinner was almost shocking in its ordinariness."
"The moment she was back in her nightgown and had slipped under the covers, she opened The Shadow Hunter's Codex and began to read.You'll never understand us from reading a boo, Will had said, but that wasn't the point really. He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning, that this one acknowledged that she exsisted and that there were others like her in the world."
"Will spread his armswide, on his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. "Come and get me.""
"Tessa just stared at him. When he had come into her room at the Dark House, she had thought he was the most beautiful boy she'd everseen, but just now, looking ay him-she had never looked at a boy like that, not in this way that brought blood hot to her face, and tightened her chest. More than anything else she wanted to touvh him, to touch his wet hair, to see if his arms, corded with muscle, were as hard as they looked, or if his callused palms were rough. To put her cheek against his, and feel his eylashes brush her skin. Such long lashes...."
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