Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare

Clockwork Angel is the first book in the Infernal Devices trilogy, and the first book in chronological order of the Shadowhunter Series.

It revolves around a 16 year old, orphaned girl named Tessa Gray, who had a (previously unknown) ability that allowed her to take the form of any person around her, but the limitation would be that she needed or had something that belonged to the person she was trying to shapeshift into.

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I’m not sure where to start with saying how amazing this book is, so let me just start from a few pages after the beginning.

From what anyone who read this book can CLEARLY see in their head, it states that Tessa was reading a book, and was actually immersed in it, not putting it down to look at other things that captured her interests, but solely on the book itself, which lead me to believe that Tessa enjoyed books very much (kind of like me…).

One of the book’s most important people is a handsome, sharp-tongued and quick-witted teenager named Will, who had a strange, clouded past and now, a dangerous present. He is the main person who rescued Tessa from the house where she was taken captive, and later brought her to an intricately detailed and very beautiful place called ‘The Institute’.

In the Institute, there are people called the Shadowhunters, or Nephilim, who are basically part angel and part human, and devoted to ridding the entire Earth of demons spawning from other dimensions and hell-like worlds. Shadowhunters train extensively to become unbeatable (or at least close to it), so they can protect the next few generations of demon spawn attacks.

Apart from the Shadowhunters and the demons, there are also Downworlders, who are basically the Vampires, the Werewolves, the Faeries, and the Warlocks.

Tessa gets drawn into the mysterious world she earlier had no idea of the existence of, and made friends and allies, including Will, and Jem, who is a British-Chinese teenager, a violinist, and is also on the brink of death.

The trio and other lovable characters discover the Pandemonium Club, an alliance of evil Downworlders and humans, who plan to try and take control of London, and it is up to Tessa and everyone else to save the city, but with a cost…

My favorite character would be Sophia (Sophie) Collins, the brave maid who helps take care of the Institute.

She never hesitates to speak her mind or share her thoughts if the Shadowhunters are making a plan, and this is partly because of the Institute Head, Charlotte.

Charlotte originally found Sophie on the street, after she had been thrown out from her previous housekeeping job with a deep injury, but Charlotte helped her back to her health, and Charlotte also gave her a job, while caring for her like an older sister.

Sophie was also very brave during the battle near the end of the book, where even though she obtains many injuries and sprains, she continues to take the advice, and helps Jessamine and herself to safety.

One particularly fun character was the warlock, Magnus Bane, who is hilariously sarcastic, and also very helpful, even if he says ‘there will be a price’ or something like that. He had taken a particular liking to Tessa, thinking about her as a smaller sister that he really wanted to protect, and remains her friend, ally, and companion throughout the entire series.

Cassandra Clare has written this book so exceptionally astoundingly, that all of the characters have special places in our heart; of course, with a few exceptions that take a special place in the murky depths of our trash, but apart from that, people should read this book and fall in love with the special Shadowhunter and Downworlder bonds that helped shape the entire novel beautifully.

I also forgot the small ship that I 100% supported while reading the Clockwork Angel book, and that’s the ship between the mysterious man from Wales, and also obviously Tessa. Both of them loved Charles Dickens’ book – A Tale of Two Cities, – and had many interesting discussions about the book amongst each other, and could relate to some of the characters in the book that they really loved and enjoyed reading about.

I encourage everyone to support the ‘ship’, and figure out what cryptically strange events follow the end of the book and I would give this a 1000% yes rating to reading the book, if you like Historical Fiction and Horror genres, and also give it time to fully understand and appreciate the beautiful wordsmanship and the paragraphs that really make you feel that you are inside the story.