The Skycraper Book Project. #12

WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! A VERSION WHERE NOTHING OF THE PLOT IS REVEALED HAS ALSO BEEN POSTED!



The twelfth book in the The Skyscraper Book Project is...

Clockwork Princess
By Cassandra Clare.

Blurb: Tessa Gray should be happy - aren't all brides happy?
Yet as she prepares for her wedding, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.
A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to Mortmain, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Mortmain needs only one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. And Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa's heart, will do anything to save her.

Date started: 19th march

Date finished: 24th march

Rating out of five?: two, i was expecting great things from this book; slightly disappointed:(

Why not five?: altogether, this book was just like a broken bicycle standing next to a ferrari... The ferrari being all of Cassandra Clare's other books.
Twice I picked out mistakes: first, when Cecily and Gabriel are in the like goat-man's shop, there's a part where it says like, Gideon looked at the shelf. Was Gideon not at the Institute with Sophie. That was very confusing.
Second I found that Tessa mentioned Jessamine's death when she was in the carriage with the Dark Sister, how does Tessa know Jessamine has died (in Will's arms) if she wasn't there? (Will only comes outside after Tessa leaves)! Aside from ALL THAT, i enjoyed the plot of the book, and I cried toward the end. Maybe if the book had been revised over one more time, these would have been spotted. I think, to wait a few extra weeks, for the mistakes to be found, would have been well worth it.

Who would enjoy this?: All of Cassandra Clare's fans, as long as they're prepared for these few put-offs. I don't know if my copy was just like this?

Was it up to the author's general standard?: no, this paled in comparison to Clare's other works.

Was it a quick read?: no, the pace of the book was sluggish, and the transfer of one character's point of view to the next's was timed weirdly.