Sound off: What are your thoughts on CLOCKWORK PRINCESS (spoilers in comments)
It’s hard to believe that The Infernal Devices has come to a close with the release of Clockwork Princess yesterday.
Stay tuned for my spoiler-free review on Thursday and a spoiler-filled review a couple of weeks later.
We want to hear what you think.
What were your thoughts on the conclusion and the series? Did it end the way you would have liked? Are you having difficulty saying goodbye to the characters?
Join in the discussion in the comments!
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I thought the series ended beautifully, it was absolutely perfect. However i feel so sad that the series is over.. I’ve come to love all the characters so much, even jessamine.. She really came through
I agree that the ending was beautiful. That was my first thought after finishing it, that is was just really beautiful and lovely and amazing and then I started crying.
I loved it, but i can’t stop crying that Will is dead. I know he had a brilliant life with Tessa but i honestly thought they would find some way for him to stay with her forever. He was the best thing in the series. Absolutely gutted that this will be the end of Will. I wanted him in heavenly fire :”( I can’t type any more my eyes are too blurry, off to get another box of tissues.
I sobbed my heart out more than 10 times during the epilogue… Eacn word pierced my heart with blinding pain… I thought i would die of grief…My heart pains at the thought of Will…Will Will Will Will Will… was ll i said through the day after. I need some concelling to survive
Same! I just cannot stop thinking about how Tessa ended up alone all these years, watching him die, then her kids…and grandkids… I can’t stop imagining how her and Will could’ve discovered more books to read… like EM Forster….DH Lawrence etc.
And also what hurt me most- was that Will and Jem were apart.
And that Tessa has to watch Jem die now…
Tragic.
By the angel, I cried so hard during Will’s death that I had to go back and read it (which resulted in more crying). I loved how Jem came and played for him. And how Jem came when Will was bitten by the Shax demon and he could have gotten in trouble but he didn’t care.
Me too. His love for her was so strong It seemed as if he wasn’t mortal… His love for her is perpetual, but I really wanted him to be with her forever.
I loved it! It really came full circle. I hate to see a series I’m so invested in end, but I feel like it was a beautiful story that was told the way it should have been. I’m sad to have to see our favorite characters die (as they must do over the span of 100+ years) to get to present day, but the ending makes you feel like some of our favorite characters are still out there somewhere. They could just pop in any time Cassandra Clare feels like it… maybe in her new series perhaps? It was a bittersweet ending to the series, but it certainly made me want to go back and re-read TMI series and pay closer attention to a certain Silent Brother! The whole Shadowhunter series is at the top of my list of favorites now, and I can’t wait to see what happens next!
I looooved this series. I had no idea how invested I was in these characters until I read Clockwork Princess. I knew I loved them all, but I had no idea how much they were integrated in my heart. I could not stop crying! Some things I had predicted, but I was blown away by others. The story of how the Herondales got the star shaped birthmark was so endearing. I loved that Will and Tessa shared a long beautiful life together. I was so sad that Jem’s only choice was to live such a lonely life with the Silent Brothers and that it completely changed him and took everything I loved about him. But the Epilogue was absolutely perfect. It made me smile to know that he secretly had his Jem moments with Will and Tessa behind the scenes, albeit few and far between. Of Jem turning his head away, full of emotion, when he learned that they had named their firstborn after him. He was still able to play his music and be with the only two people he loved, as he had stated in The Mortal Instruments.
And Will… *sigh* He’s the most beautiful character ever created. As much as I hated that he died, it was in the most perfect way. And to think of him old with grey hair, but with the same wild blue eyes, full of love for Tessa, and him holding Jem’s hand in his last moments was the most beautiful, amazing thing ever. I am getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
With that said, I know we’ll see Jem and Tessa around soon. I can’t wait for a face to face meeting with Tessa and Jace. And perhaps a new Carstairs daughter for Dark Artifaces? One can only hope!
I’m pretty sure that Emma isn’t Jem’s daughter; in City of Lost Souls Julian is about twelve, and I think he and Emma are about the same age. The epilogue of Clockwork Princess is after or during City of Heavenly Fire.
Emma Carstairs is not Jem’s daughter. I had the family trees on the inside of my book. She’s a descendent of his uncle. I GUESS WE KNOW WHO’S GETTING THE ANGEL SWORD WILL WAS OFFERED!
Yeah Jem is like emma’s great-great-great cousin I read it somewhere once
O my, I loved your review. Tho I gotta say I didn’t read the book yet even tho I just got it a few days ago. I’m scared to know the ending even tho there were so many hints already. Your review makes me wanna pick up the book now w a whole new ambition to feel the characters all over again. Spoilers don’t really spoil it for me bc you gotta have your own imagination when you read a great series. I’m looking forward to blurried eyes and a constant stuffy nose since its already allergy season. S M I L E S ^_^¥
i have no idea what to ddo with my life anymore it seems like a meaningless empty whole, the book was brilliant and satisfying but so sad at the same time. i am crying and laughing at the same time. I LOVE EVRYONE IN THIS SERIES
Agree with all!!!!
**SPOILER FOR SURE**
Yes, I was playing around with that idea of Tessa & Jem having their 2nd shot at a long life together with their own kids… but it’s also kind of weird to think of Tessa/Jem being 130+ years old having kids that are younger than her great-great-great grandkids! haha. But I guess my unanswered/morbid question is whether something special happened with Jem where he is immortal now… or will Tessa go through this whole new life-cycle with Jem and have to watch him grow old and die? Will Tessa just live forever alone or keep pro-creating or die somehow??? I don’t want anyone to die, but these are just the questions on my mind!
They mentioned that Jem is mortal again and Tessa will have to go through the loss again. That’s why she hesitated when he walked away on the bridge. But she decided it was worth it and went after him 🙂
haha, ok yea, I figured I was to excited and skimmed over that part! But my children question still stands! 🙂
On the family tree, there weren’t any children
*SPOLIERS*
oh my gosh! I so agree with what everyone is saying! I had been counting down the days for clockwork princesss to come out for basically the past year! I still read TMI but after the 1st three, there seemed to be a nice conclusion to the series so I invested more into the infernal devices. Man, I’m so sad it’s over. I was secretly rooting for Jem even though I knew she would end up with Will. I cried when Will was feeling the pain of loosing Jem. I had never put the idea that he was brother Zacariah. It was apparently pretty obvious to other readers as I read past posts but I don’t care! It was a beautiful conclusion to a great series! It’ll be painful for Tessa and I’m curious if she’s been helping out in the background of TMI, the kids are connected to her after all. I’ll have to re-read mortal instruments and pay more attention to all the details. I love how she explains them! The pendant that glows when demons are near, magnus remembering a guy when he looks at Alec, the Wayland star, and so many other ones! such incredible writing! I’m glad she’s going to write another story to cary on the Carstairs legacy as the wayland and fairchild and the Lightwoods!
The Epilogue made me cry. When Tessa was remembering Will’s death I wanted to explode with tears. What’s amazing though is Tessa is related to Jace 😛
AND, since Will’s sister is the ancestor of the current Lightwoods, Alec and Jace are cousins some how 😛
I love how Jem and Tessa are still alive. I think COHF takes place in 2007, so, I think that in COHF, maybe we’ll see Jem become mortal again. 😀
Loved it 😛
Especially the way Will proposed to Tessa.
He is mortal, isn’t he?
oh my god they ended up together!!!
I FEEL LIKE CRYING[people don’t give out spoilers!!!!!!!;)}
Weren’t you warned of spoilers in the title? It did say that there could (and would) be spoilers in the comments.
Loved it!! Thought it was beautiful & amazing. Perfect way to have the book end. I also think that CoHF takes place in 2007, so that we see how Jem goes from a Silent Brother to his other self. This book has made me from just loving the series, to probably my favorite series. Amazing book.
Ever since I read CP2 (through last night and mostly because I needed to be left alone and crying my insides out, undisturbed) I wanted to share my view on it. But what can I even say about this masterpiece. The rivers of feelings for each and every one of the characters, the relationships between them, the sub-plots, the questions answered, the few more raised (to left me craving for CoHF next and start re-reading TMI sooner than later), the ways everything resolved and could have only ever be resolved leave me with just only one thing to say :
I cannot praise you enough CC.
And whatever it is you’re writing or planning to write or will you ever write
I’M SO FUCKING BUYING!
^_^¥
Oh, and who would have thought that even TID are prequels TO TMI, CP2’s epilogue would have served also as a sequel AFTER CoHF!
I had never believed in the Brother Zachariah theories, and was I surprised to find them true. It was such a beautiful ending, and I love that Sophie got to ascend and be with Gideon. I love how Gabriel ended up with Cecily, called that the second they met. And the best part, Tessa ended up with Will and Jem. I had to put the book down to sob over Will, then picked it back up and read to find her with Jem, the real Jem, and almost died of happiness and mixed emotions. Way to keep both sides happy Clare. 😉 It was just such a beautiful book and ambrlabdkbekw. I should shut up now.
Holy crap. I seriously didn’t think that Jem was Brother Zachariah! Awesome ending though 😀
I cried so many times in this book! I felt bad that Tessa had to choose between two people such as Jem and Will and it broke my heart over and over again. I adored both Jem and Will and never chose which one I loved more and I didn’t have to x’D The ending was better than I could hope for!
“Almost” all of my questions were answered. She gave me suprise and intrigue, love and tears. What an amazing way to end an even lovlier book series. So wrong on so many thoughts. haha. Love it when that happens and it rearly does. GREAT job Cassandra!!!
Anyone else love that she 100% worked in Magnus’ start with body glitter? LOL!! Loved the book! Downloaded the ebook at midnight and read straight through the night until 5 in the morning to finish it. I could not have even imagined in my wildest dreams a better ending than the one Cassandra wrote. I was an emotional wreck the whole next day every time I remembered something I read. Here’s looking towards the future and hoping COHF has just as beautiful a conclusion.
I honestly hated the end to this book and the relationships between the characters that I had so deeply believed in before (Will, Tessa and Jem) were completely unbelievable in this book and honestly at times ridiculous with Tessa. I am on the verge of breaking my oath to never harm books just so I can rip out the epilogue because it hurt me so much and caused me such pain and I hated it with a passion. I loved the series, but this completely ruined it for me, the same way the CoFA and CoLS ruined the original Mortal Instruments. To be honest I doubt I will ever be able to read this trilogy again because I know utter disappointment, rage, and pain await me in the end. Also this book could have been about 1/2 or 2/3s of its sized, it was unnecessarily long.
Really? Because as some, well, most, parts of this book really irked me, I thought that the epilogue cured any remaining hatred. For example, I didn’t cry at Jem’s *death* because it was so utterly detached, and really, entirely feeling less. You kill a character in battle, you kill a character the way you killed Will, with his loving family surrounding him. You don’t leave them to die alone, in the hands of the silent brothers. I simply wouldn’t believe he had died, and Cassie justified his dying like that when he became a silent brother. And yet, that’s another thing I’m mad at. Jem? Silent brother? Those shouldn’t go in the same sentence! And though I was definitely surprised when he became un-silent brotherified, I was extremely happy. Now, I was really mad at the whole DSDS business, but I sort of understood WHY they did what they did, and we all pretty much knew at that point that it had to happen at SOME point. I really can’t understand what *relationship* you’re referring to, that was destroyed. Will and Tessa grew old, and loved one another, setting an example for their children, and Will died a peaceful death. SophiexGideon and CecilyxGabriel came as no huge surprise, and I found it sweet. And there’s nothing wrong with finding love again, 130 years after your husband passed away, none the less her lost love, and her at one point fiancé. And yes, I cried, I cried so, so hard during the epilogue, it tore my heart to shreds, but I laughed to, and the characters loved, and to me, that’s all you can ask for in a book. So a recommendation, go back and reread that chapter. This time, try reading it with a mind open to the idea that Cassie had no clue how you personally wanted it to end. And that that epilogue was honestly one of the most beautiful ending to one of the most beautiful stories ever in the history of books.
When in CoLS Brothe Zachariah said “(…) I f the chance comes before me to save the last of the Herondale bloodline I consider that the higher importance (…)”i start having my suspitions .Who else other than Jam would be so concern ,not precisely about Jace, but about bloodline ? Jam said he can’t become Silent Brother because yin fen in his blood and I did belive him and thats why i was suprise even when he “died” i through “Its not possible -ITS TO EARLY I THE BOOK for something so tragic to happend (technical me) but i belive it , I cry for Will, for Tessa and for all of them. More im thinking about it more i see the sence in ending and I feel peace coming back slowly. She said she only loved two man and I say You love two man because the share the same soul and the same heart , yours dear Tessa.xxx
Such an amazing book! I always cried whenever something was mentioned about how Will remembered something about Jem, their friendship, or a happy memory they shared. At first I was against the brother Zachariah deal, but I grew to be ok with it, realizing that the important thing was that Jem was alive. 🙂
The epilogue could not have been better. A mix if all emotions. I am so glad Tessa did, in some way, get Jem. He was just to much of an amazing character to be left alone.
And may I say, I think you did a fantastic job at killing of who you did. 🙂
Fucking luved it I cried my eyes out ive never read a series that has felt like it ended n this did I hope heavenly fire is writen just as well as this was luved it thats all I can say
NONONONOOOOOO!! It was the best book ever!! Cassie has put a high standard for CoHF! Such a good ending but i cant believe the series is over, usually i could read a TMI/TID book in less than a day, but i preserved it for 2 days because i didnt want it to end 😉 I kinda saw the whole silent brother thing coming, i had loads of crackpot theories…. JUST WILL NO WHY WILL NO…. The Epilogue made me have a breakdown…Just AAAAHH the FEELS!…. Never cried so much throughout a whole book…..Not even TFIOS, I also knew magnus was going to go to NYC with Church, because how else would they get there, It as so cleverly written!!! BY THE ANGEL, who else loved the bit when Tessa’s Clockwork Angel made the star mark on Will’s shoulder! AAAH THATS WHAT JACE HAS!! ITS SO EXCITING!! And the whole Ithuriel thing was just so amazing!! I CANT SAY HOW MUCH IT LOVES THIS BOOK!!! Im glad Tessa at least has Jem at the end, and that he is no longer a silent brother, but it means in TMI if it goes on past 2007 where it is at now, or in TDA for that case they will have no brother zachariah, oh well im glad tessa has jem, but it is just so sad that she even left her children because she didnt want them grow old… 😥
THIS IS DEFINITELY THE BEST BOOK IVE READ!!! – I have missed out so many things i wanted to say but i just cant now… The tears…. :’)
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I wanna be spoiled ’cause I wanna know how the book ends and I don’t think it will hurt.
Though I never thought it’ll hurt so much. 😥
This book is definetely my favourite in Infernal Devices series. I cried(!) when I thought that Jem is dead! Don’t get me wrong, I like Will better, but I got attached to Jem. I would like to be his friend if he lived in our world. Crying part kicked in when I discovered Tessa had to be without Will and Jem for 70 years *sobs* Anyway, I’m sad it’s over, but at least I can expect CoHF…. It would be just appropriate if it break our hearts too. 🙂 Cassie, hurry with damned book, but let us have cry party for finishing Infernal Devices! You are invited as well!
Whoever gave this book a 1 star is insane this book is amazing
Spoilers! Read at your own risk!
*My absolute favorite book ever… EVER!
*People who thought “Will loves Tessa more than Jem does!” What do you think now, after the poor guy suffered for 130 years, just to be with the girl he loved? (Not saying Will wouldn’t have if he had to, but he didn’t, so Jem gets points for that!)
*In my opinion the best parts were the parts with Jem talking about the violin. Ms. Clare obviously did her research because I can verify (as a dedicated viola player) that all her facts were correct. She even kept details about rosin (Which is really gross but necessary), shoulder rests (and the bruises one gets from not using one), and pizzicato.
* I hope the group from the NYC institute gets to meet Jem, because I can see him satisfying Jace’s need to know more about his family, as well as diffusing Alec’s tension toward the subject of Magnus and Will.
This book is as of right now the BEST book ever created in mankind. It tied of all the lose ends and satisfied each team were it Will or Jem or both. This story gave me soo many feels and I’m sad that its the end but it was such a great book that it balances it out. Except I’m wondering if Tess and Jem had kids…? Anyway Thank the heavens that bestowed us Mrs Clare cause her mind created and shared this wonderful story!
I think it was Clary who cured Jem. Maybe she made a rune that will remove the yin fen in his body completely and made him healthy and alive again. It was the first thought that rushed to me when Tessa saw Jem all well. But it’s just a theory. :DD
I finished the book yesterday morning, stretching it out to the longest possible second and I am still not over it. I think I will need time to get over this book. I don’t even want to open my nook app b/c I’ll see the book cover on my title list. 😦
Poor Ithuriel, he can’t catch a break ever, constantly trapped. The emotional rollercoaster that this series took me on was insane. Of course, I think that the whole story came around full circle and it was perfect. But of course now we want to know what happens on Tessa and Jem’s new journey. I keep thinking about them wondering what happens next for them. Tessa did say that she saw Magnus months before and he didn’t tell her about Jem. So if the epilogue happens in 2008 and COHF happens in 2007, at least we can all rest easy knowing that Magnus and Tessa and Brother Zachariah survive the wrath of Sebastian (who, btw, is one of my fav characters, don’t judge me LOL)
Ugh, this is all too emotional for me…but I’m glad I’m not alone, I have all of you guys here to share my pain and suffering with.
LOL! I thought the same thing about Ithuriel; that angel definitely needed a guardian angel himself! I wonder if Tessa will go the route of making herself mortal (the way Magnus said he considered before) so she won’t have to survive after Jem and go through again the pain she did when she lost Will. I hope Cassie mentions them a bit in the dark artifices. Just little bits of news would be better than nothing.
I am going back to re-read TMI series this summer before the movie comes out, but I definitely want to go to Ithuriel being trapped again… Does anyone remember that being explained now that we know he was trapped once in her clockwork angel… How did an Angel get trapped again? Anyways, I’m also glad there are other readers out there who feel the same way I do about this book. There have only been a few books (like the Twilight series) that really get me emotional and attached, but this series just makes all the characters feel so real, and the Victorian setting just makes everything that much more romantic. Why can’t it be the real world?! LOL
I finished the book yesterday, and I have yet to read the epilogue. I just know it will make me sob like a little baby. I already cried at the end when Jem and Will were saying their goodbyes. My stomach has been in knots since I finished it because I am so upset that the series is over. WHY? I know everything good comes to an end, but I just don’t want to accept it. I do not know when I will eventually read the epilogue, but hopefully I can force myself to do it soon.
It is best left unread in my opinion….
This scares me! I still haven’t read it, I just can’t bring myself to do it. I don’t want it to make me bitter about the series ending.
I loved this book and felt like it had really good closure, but I’m strongly team Will so the epilogue bugged me a lot. I’m 90% satisfied with the story. But I loved the Will/Tessa moments!! Best in the series
I agree, I thought parts of the last chapter and the epilogue was unecessary. To me it felt like Will was no longer important to the story, like clare thought he’s now in the past and that’s where he’ll stay which upset me because he was my favourite character. This is just my opinion as you can tell I am team Will. Other than that I loved the book though it wasn’t as strong as the first two, are they ever ?
In a way, I wish that I hadn’t have read the epilogue 😛 I am so happy that Jem and Tessa get their time together, but I don’t think I have ever cried so much over a book than the way I cried when Tessa was thinking of how Will died 😥
Half of me really wants to see Tessa and Jem again in other books, but the other half of me hopes that I don’t because it just doesn’t seem right without Will 😥
I did love this book though and I would probably be this upset no matter how it ended 😛 I will always love you ID! xo
OH MY GOD THE ENDING WAS SO BEAUTIFUL I DIDN’T EXPECT THAT AND IT WAS SO PERFECT BECAUSE I LOVE JEM
I seriously love this series! But clockwork princess was definitely the saddest out of all of them… Like this book made me cry so much, but it also made me laugh so much. My only problem with this book is that I’m a die hard will fan(here we go again with the will drama) but I HATED the epilogue soo much. I really wish that she didn’t make wills death so beautiful because it made it that more sad. It came to a point where I had to blink the tears away so I could finish reading it and when I finished I balled my eyes out. I mean I’m happy that Jem and Tessa ended up together but I don’t like it at the same time because its like will is in the past and forgotten…she should have mentioned that they would never forget him even though I know they wouldn’t but it would have calmed my emotions a little bit…but I don’t think I can read the book again because I know that will dies in the end..Wahha 😦 and i find Tessa’s life really sad actually because she chose Jem and then he “died” then she finally got over Jem and went with will and then Jem came back then left again, then will dies and Jem comes back only to die again someday…like its really depressing. I really hope that TMI will end with a more happy ending because I didn’t like how will died.
I am so sad the series is over!! Its so hard to say goodbye! I really like how it was, in some ways, related to tmi. Like now we know why the herondales have that birthmark, and where Izzy got her necklace, and church, the cat. Is he an immortal cat?and to think that when brother Zachariah visited the institute that it was really Jem! How did he live so long? What I want to know is, where is Tessa during the war with Valentine? And isn’t shadowhunter blood dominant, so shouldn’t tessa be all shadowhunter? Or not because her mom didn’t have her marks? I loved the ending of the book, though! It was great! I couldn’t stop crying, and even thinking about it now makes me wanna cry all over again!
I loved the book, I always love the book but I would have been fine without the epilogue. When I reached the part of Will death I skipped over all the details and just read what was said at the bridge. (I made myself go back and read it the next day though) Then I was frustrated. Will is my favorite character out of all TID and TMI his death should have gone unsaid or not have existed at all. Yeah he lived his life with Tessa long and happily but it was absolutely HORRENDOUS having to read of his death. It was still like a regular death of a character in a book, as in the death of a main character during the story(like as the death of jessamine or thomas). Will died not Jem, I can hardly bear it. I was so happy when I finished before the epilogue “Yay Tess and Will are getting married, they made amends with their family,all is well!” Then that BLOODY EPILOGUE! I know many think it is a happy ending but do not for one second, In my mind Will was the only one for Tessa and Jem just never fit the part for it my head.It as though Jem had won, he has Tessa will doesnt! Now Will is gone, gone, gone,GAHHHH!!!! I think I’ll rip the epilogue out of my book now…
It was soooo beautifully perfect. I always say the best book is the one that can make you cry. And cry I did. Though, I did hold out until Jem talked about how he had first known he was in love with Tessa on Blackfriars’ Bridge, and then meeting there.. oh god, crying again… anyway, you know what I mean. And then, after I had finally calmed myself down, I nearly died crying… Again… when Will was thinking of Jem’s empty room, and how Church no longer slept on the bed. There was such a sense of finality about the CAT being in depression with me. And I couldn’t stop crying until after Jem had stopped talking with Will. I had finished all my tissues at this point, and my cold wasn’t helping the supply. But the only thing that really set me off after that was, for some reason, the announcement of Charlotte and Henry’s baby’s name. Cute little Buford… That is, until the epilogue. I read the whole Will-dies part, literally 15 times, because, though it was sad, I never wanted to forget Will, or his jokes, and I didn’t want to not read about him. So I read about him, and his wonderful life with Tessa, and cried so, so hard when I finally had to drag myself forward in the book. Where I was once again set upon with a bad case of the feels. It wasn’t so much that Jem wasn’t a silent brother, but that Tessa had kept the necklace, all those long, long years. Even though, she felt there was no hope for a future between Jem and herself. And now, I’m gonna cry some tears of joy, because now, there’s a high likelihood that Miss Emma will get to meet her great grandfather’s nephew… or we’ll get a reunion with Jem, Magnus and Tessa. Or a scene where Jace gets to talk with Jem about his ancestors. Ohhh, the exiteme… wait, but that means we won’t see a reunion between Will and Magnus… or Will talking to Jace, or Will ANYTHING. *sobs uncontrollably* It’s ok, I’m ok, maybe Cassie will feed us a short story or two about Will and Tessa’s lofe together… maybe… please Cassie, if you’re reading… pleeeeeeeeease. But anyway, overall, I was just so pleased with the ending ofnthis book (notice I said nothing about the beginning, I’m denying it even exists, really.)
Wow!!! I stretched this out as long as I could because I didn’t want it to be over…..I don’t think I have sobbed over a book the way I did in this one. I cried throughout the entire book, but nothing like I did in the end. I’m a grown woman (35), and to read love like this, and then to have lost, and loved again….one can only hope to get one of those in life. I’m truly a Will fan, and it was very difficult to read how he and Tessa were just beginning their life together, and then read of his death was heart wrenching. I wish we could of had more of their life together, it would of been nice to hear it without something or someone in their way. And the rest of them for that matter. I was happy that Jem and Tessa found their way back together, but was also sad because I felt she and Will had a love that could never be replaced. But I don’t believe she replaced Will, but continued the path that she and Jem started so long ago. And after a century of being alone, it was only fitting that Jem get his chance of love too, because if anyone deserved it, it is he after the sacrifice he gave. I am sad that the series is over, more sad that Will is dead. But all good things must come to an end, an unfortunate event for us readers……
In all honestly, I hope I can find someone who loves me like Will/Tessa/Jem loved each other, for true love has been hard to find so far. Not giving up hope yet!
Usually, I would go back and read the books again, with this one I’m gonna have to give it some time before re-reading it. This has been one, if not the greatest series that I have ever read, and it’s been too many, I just wish it wasn’t over!!!!! Thanks to Cassandra Clare for introducing us to these characters, and living life through them one word/page at a time.
maybe Tessa becomes mortal like Alec was trying to make magnus and then be with jem??
I absolutely loved this book; don’t get me wrong, but I feel as if the very ending was sort of… Wrong. No, it’s not because Will is my favourite character, either. Jem and Will were parabatai, how could he agree to meet Tessa every year, yet never see his “brother” until the last minutes of his life? I don’t know; it just kind of throws off the power of their love/ connection. Maybe I’m still grieving over Will… But the book was truly a masterpiece. How does Clare do it?
Cassandra Clare has achieved the impossible. Every person who read this series came away happy (and tearful); there favorite boy lived happily and got the girl. J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins could not claim as much. (I love both though!) It’s almost as if Cassie Clare’s writing is a mix of John Green, Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, and a 19th century poet and something that’s entirely her own. Crying is inevitable. But joy is too.
To one of the most beautiful series I have had the privelege to read!
I have a few questions though: What happened to Jessamine’s ghost? What cured Jem? Is brother Jeremiah Jem? And then I thought, but Jem was freed of the brotherhood in 2008. Was it Jeremiah purely a door Cassie left herself in case she didn’t want Jem and Tessa together? Is Charlotte’s whip Isabelle’s? If Tessa is half demon, is Will not at risk for Demon Pox? (Because that would be true irony…)
Finally, to Jem.
Did the Silent Brothers really play pranks, charades, and make toasted cheese in the City of Bones?!
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
— J.K. Rowling
I don’t put these quotes to make us feel sad. I put them to make us feel better about Will. And the end of the Infernal Devices. Don’t cry because it ended, smile because it happened. Don’t cry because Will died, smile because he lived. Because he was our Will. And Jem our Jem. And Tessa our Tessa. And if we give Cassandra Clare’s book the power to change us and make us live for love. Then Will’s always going to be ours. Ready to sing a naughty song, or stretch out a hand to a dying boy and together save eachother from a lonely world.
I have never cried over a book as much as i did for this one in my entire life, if was SO sad and yet so amazingly beautiful all at once 😦 THAT epilogue, why did I have to read it right after reading about Tessa and Will’s happy ending. I was just thinking ‘ hey this is such a happy ending finally they get together ‘ (although jem being a silent brother had me in tears too) but then cassandra had to go and show us how Will would die , i had to reread the chapter because i had tears in my eyes ! and the ironic part was that she ended up with Jem after Will dies, nd throughout the entire series i never saw that coming since i just presumed Jem would pass on before any of them.
Oh and one more thing, during Will’s final moments the only thing that made me smile while i was still sobbing like a baby was how they mentioned his fear of ducks still XD!
Never read the mortal instruments, i got TID first but now I’m dying to start on it although my mind is now numb from all the emotions that passed through me during that epilogue that I have to now just sit and think about TID for the next week or so.
great book but seriously i think I went through a entire box of tissues reading the epilogue specially the part when Jem “brother Zachariah” came and played the violin for his friend one last time 😦