The Clockwork Angel

Steampunk!

Cassandra Clare's works introduced us to the Shadowhunter's world first on her best selling trilogy The Mortal Instruments. The Clockwork Angel, a prequel of the Mortal Instrument books, narrates the story of Tessa, a 'stupid' girl from the 1878's who travels from New York (as always) to London (wanted to meet with the famous Harry Potter) in the search of her older brother, Nathaniel. Not knowing that she is some kind of a Warlock, who has some apparently weird shape-shifting ability, is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters who force her to learn to use her ability, so she can marry the Magister... But, when she finally gets to learn what she has to learn, and before the so called Magister gets to meet with her, she is rescued by a handsome young man, named Will. And so she is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters.
Tessa then moves to the Institute, the place where the Shadowhunters live, eat, sleep, and prey. She is introduces to everyone living there, from the mysterious Will, the rescuer; Jem, the pale friendly guy with good manners; Jessamine, the pretty lady-like who hates being a Shadowhunter; and Henry, absent-minded, and Charlotte, the head of the institute.

From there the story revolves around a mysterious kind of a club, The Pandemonium Club, whose members enjoy killing miserable mundanes, and using their 'empty' body as shell so to create a non-angelical, non-demoniacal weapons, the clockwork-creatures. The club is ruled by the Magister, of course, who is supposed to be a 'mundane' but richer than most mundanes at that time.

And so the story goes on... We got the same basic 'romantic' plot, she likes him and he likes her but there's some dark and evil secret that pushes him away from her; the same magic principles, the Nephilim (Shadowhunters) protecting the Mundanes (normal useless humans) from Downworlders (Warlocks, Faeries, Vampires, Lycans, and Demons). Even some of the characters resemble each other, as for example, Will with Jace~Alec (Will get the same physical description as Alec and the same black-sarcastic humor as Jace).

I don't know what I most like about the book... but I really disliked the missing details... I like Steampunk! the clockwork creatures, even the clockwork angel necklace, weren't enough, but that's my opinion anyways. More interactions with downworlders, and the kind, even the demons fight and rune description I missed.

What else, what else! I guess in general, I liked it. Wasn't awesome, but it was a nice reading. Still it leaves me wonder what's in the story that will connect to the Mortal Instruments books, besides the Silence Brothers and Magnus Bane, who already seems to have an important role in the second book of the series...