Clockwork Angel has been completed, awhile ago actually it wasn't a very long read.
It was a good little story about a showdowhunter who saves a shift changer and how they embark to find her brother and rescue him from the downworlder gambling debt hell...with of course some twists and turns along the way to keep it all ummm...interesting?
I enjoyed returning to the Shadowhunter world, but I can't say I enjoyed this book. It felt to me like the author was stretching to make a prequel. You recognized last names of what must surely be ancestors to the charactors in the Mortal Instruments series, but the whole story was a wee bit...well...lame.
They made Tessa a shape shifter, but it was like a tiny little sub plot acting like a major plot point. One of my favorite things in the Mortal instruments series was the romantic/sexual tension but that was missing in Clockwork. It instead felt like it was trying to set up a love triangle between the three charactors that failed badly. Yes it was a Victorian time piece and not a modern day time piece where the youngsters are less reserved about showing affection to put it kindly, but I have read Victorian romance novels that are still steamy and oozing with tension, while staying within the boundaries of propriety.
I hate how elitist the Shadowhunters are. Everything is underneath them in the world...the demons, the lycanthorpes, the warlocks, fairies, vampires, and of course the mundanes. They are better than everything and the rest is an inconvenience to them. I'm glad this was pointed out at one point in the book.
"All your talk about Downworlders and how you don't hate them. That's all nothing, isn't it? Just words. You don't mean them. And as for mundanes, have you ever that maybe you'd be better at protecting them if you didn't despise them all so much?"
I also didn't appreciate how the plot centered around the wiping out of the Shadowhunters. We know from reading the Mortal Instruments that the Shadowhunters survive and win...it really wasn't a good way to build up suspence.
Overall it was a nice way to spend the evening, and I will read the next one, Clockwork Prince to further follow their adventures.
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