Will and Jem Jem and Will =

This will be pretty long, so here comes a little summary of what I've written Actually: spoiler, spoiler, spoiler, rant, normal content, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler. (Scroll down if you do not want to read my thoughts on why literature for young adult sucks most of the times;.))

So if you do not want to read this, close the window. I think I did not leave out anything really important, except probably the actual plot 'ha - so if you're just looking for some Magnus or Jem or Sophie, CTRL + F will DO.

Another warning: I just finished the novel and Usually DO NOT publish reviews right after that.

Oh I know there are many, many people who've Given Up On Ya. Most of the times I'm one of them. Is it some sort of conspiracy? Do these authors want us to hate reading? Do they want us to troll and be trolled?

Cassandra Clare, tell me, why did you write thesis novels and why, though I come to dislike them did much, I can not stop reading them? I can not even find the willpower to do something evil and illegally download your novels just so my curiousity will not increase your number of copies sold. Yes, there are people who Actually did that. I have the PM's to prove it, though I never would.

So For Those of you who did not want to read the Clockwork Prince, and For Those Who Did, and For Those Who just like to read to average half-rant-half-review, here it comes.

Books written for Young Adults tend to be stupid, with doormat heroines, who are naive and annoying and whiny and well, too stupid to live. We sometimes come across a good World Building 'as can be found in Unearthly or Matched' or some complex characters 'The Summoning' and there are novels did are simply did well written indeed we're able to forgive the author for Their moneymaking agenda. It's Their job after all.

I can see how girls would like Jace. He's always talking about how much he loves Clary and he's a little mysterious. He's a cynic and apparently did makes boys attractive. If only I were a boy .. The bad boy with a heart of gold. He's tortured and apparently people who have vaginas feel the deep need to safe this person. It does not matter indeed this is yet another way to proof to ourselves did we have some, any, worth, just as it does not matter did most readers are not in love with the character but with WhatTheyThink he is and with How They'd appreciate to be loved that much. Does IT Matter fact it's quite shallow? No, Because it's fiction and we all love to be loved.

The problem I have here is indeed Clare once Said Will not like what Jace and the Infernal Devices series Not the Mortal Instruments. To some extents That is true. Jace is Actually a real Manwhore whereas Will is just acting as if to make otherpeople dislike him.

And yes: There are more characters and several of them are different from Whom you'd associate with them. Comparing thesis two series' Would not be my intent at all, if it were not for the factthat I'm critizing Something That makes no sense if you do not know did Jace and William already lived once in another story written by this author.

Draco Malfoy everybody what a sarcastic boy with a troubled past and / or some crazy-ass parents (Lucius and Jace's father, Will leaving his family Because of something that's revealed in this novel) yet deep down he was good. He had to fight for this, but hey what. He cared about Hermione and was truly in love with her in at least the first installment trilogy in Claire's Draco. Do you see the connections?

So what I'm saying is thatthis is not that much better than the cheap paranormal romance novels I Constantly bitch about. Same thing over and over again. But, well .. I still read the novels, do not I?

Jem. I am Team Jem. Or I've been and I still think I am, but Clare managed to strip away all that was amazing about him and hand it over to Will. The first 10'15 chapters were amazing. We've had great Jem action, but then he and Tessa were official (except did no one except them knew, but you know what I mean, theywere a couple and later even engaged!) He lost his charm. I think many of us liked him Because He has a sad history and a very short life span. He's a tragedy, he is the typical Asian love story, where in the end something horrible happens and everyone except the one person who will forever mourn them.

The real difference between TMI and TID might yet Be That unlike Clary, Tessa really is torn between Jem and Will. Where Simon was a sidekick, who later got his own book (except he did did not) Jem is Actually a very interesting character with the potential to be more than just that. The problem here is, did he too, calls to our inner mothers. He's fragile, he's supposed to die, he has no family, he is lonely, he is friendly and kind and it makes him very loveable. And did I mention how he Became less complex as soon as he Proposed?

Yet Tessa is more Attracted, at least in the beginning, to Will. Then, though, Jem and Tessa do have some serious action going on, though. They kiss, They touch, they fall into bed with eachother and I think they would at least have had some serious petting going on if it were not for the drugs did suddenly fell off something and were all around his place, Which was why Tessa had to leave. In this scene she's thinking this:

"Her fingers wound tightly in his shirt, Tessa drew Jem down Onto ago, taking the weight of him Onto her body with the feeilng That She what Being Given Back Something That had Belonged to her forever, a bit of her deed she had missed without Knowing That She was missing it. "

I think this scene implies a sort of bond That is more intense than what she's experiencing with Will despite all the tingling and kissing she has going on with him. In the beginning I really photoshoped so, but It was not about Jem, but what he stood for. About a hopeless situation and a tragedy. This role now if Onto Will. I had photoshoped thatwill and Tessa would be eachothers confidantes, with him Rebuilding the relationship to his family and her finding out her family's secrets, being single or in love with Jem. Now I'm not so sure anymore.

And despite the scene where she and Jem make out, She was later able to So kiss and make out with Will. (It's later lampshaded, but what the hell do I care.) Which is a lovetriangle 'finally' so but quite stupid and in my opinion a little horrible of her, too. If she were a boy and He Was torn between to girls, readers around the world would gasp and mourn and wail and scream and shout and insult Clare. The double standard behind this is rather annoying and I have to admit even I did would have problems if the situation which reversed, but it does not keep me from disliking the situation and Tessa's inability to stop being a victim and doormat. (In her defense, there were drugs in the lemonade she drank.)

Yes, Will does love her, but she does not know. The reader does and this apparently Justifies her nursing him wanting. He did imply She Could therefore be a prostitute? Who cares, he did it so she would not love him. Yes he DID. But she does not know. Yeah, love is not rational. But you do not have to act on it and for God's sake .. 'sigh'
Will is a construct of things authors think readers will fall for. And I suppose thesis authors are not wrong Either, Because Jace and Co are popular. I love me some death, so I can not say much about this horrible tendency. The reader is told 'in a stupid way, if I may say so (and yes I may, it's my review after all!)' What is his curse:

When he was young, he freed a demon. The demon cursed him: Every person who would ever love him would the. One day later his sister what dead. The truth Is that his sister died Because of some poison, not Because she loved him, but it's the reason why he's such an asshole. I do not really like that trope, but it was okay enough.
So When He finally is told That he is allowed to love and let love, he's super cute and kind of the new Jem: He meets Tessa who's already engaged by then and .. Well, he's miserable. Hey what hopeful, for the first time. His sarcastic self was gone (Which I found very unrealistic. If you act like that for a Long Time It's not that easy to simply let your role slip away .. But that's another matter altogether) and he was like a child. Fragile, All The Things That Made Jem Jem. So he went to Tessa and then he what miserable, Because what Jem burdened already and one can not take away a dying man's love, right? Right.

Tessa will probably never be a favorite heroine of mine. But some news on her: Her mother's been a Shadowhunter, did her brother Nate what in fact her cousin 'her aunt's son! 'And I have some suspisions about her heritage. Not sure yet, though .. I think they're wrong. Well. : / Some of her typical charactertraits: The Need to tell everyone That she knows how to read. If someone quotes anyone, she has to mention whom it what from. The Need to Constantly compare Jem and Will. I suppose it needs to be done, but it's very annoying, Especially When she has to force herself to loosen up and kiss Jem, Because of Will. Urgh, Tessa. Seriously. Jem might not deserve to get his heart broken, but he deserves freaking honesty from you. Bitch.
Nate and Jessamine. These two were weird. I really think they were making and the Nate Before He tells Tessa what's been going on? Weak. I think Their part in the plot which realistic enough, Although Nate really what not complex enough and did not feel real Certainly. I do not think Clare does not know a Nate 'Do not we all know one? 'But She Could not bring him across properly.

Magnus. He is something different, is not he? Sometime this year someone reviewed a short story indeed featured him and his now-boyfriend Alec. The reviewer Stated That She does not really like them: because it's creepy. He is old. And then she said something like 'and making him a young-old person, Because He does not remember everything' (or something like that) does not make it any less creepy. Well, after this novel There Is No Doubt That He is not an old-old person. He talks about the burden of immortality, and he did so in COFA, too. He therefore kisses Will and tells his (ex-) girlfriend thatwill is his .. well, not lover, but boyfriend sounds stupid, too.

"The door to the drawing room stood open behind him. And there, framed in the archway, which Camille. (..)
'You are being ridiculous,' she said. 'A child. You expect me to have the morals of some mundane When I am not human, and neither are you. Regardless, there is precious little you can do about it. I will nto be Dictated to, Certainly not by some half-breed. ' It was the Downworlders' own insulting term for warlocks. 'You are devoted to me; You have said so yourself. Your devotion will simply have to suffer my diversions, and then we shall rub along quite pleasantly. If not, I shall drop you. I can not imagine you want that. '
There was a little sneer in her voice as she spoke, and it snapped something inside Magnus. He Recalled the sick feeling in his throat When the letter had come from Saint Petersburg. And yet he had waited for her return, hoping she had an explanation. That she would apologize. Ask him to love her again. Now that he Realized He Was not worth to her'that did he never had been'a red mist passed before his eyes; He Seemed to go mad momentarily, for it what the only explanation for what he did next.
'It does not matter.' He rose to his feet. 'Will I have now.'
Her mouth opened. 'You can not be serious. A Shadowhunter? '
'You may be immortal, Camille, but your feelings are vapid and shallow. Will's are not. He understands what it is to love. ' Magnus, having delivered this speech with great dignity insane, stepped across the room and shook Will's shoulder. 'Want. William. Wake up. ' (..)
Magnus hauled Will to his feet. 'The lady of the house,' he said, 'has returned.'
'I see that.' Will what flushed, the collar of his shirt dark with sweat. 'Delightful,' He Said to no one in particular, and what Magnus not sure Whether he meant what he delighted to see Camille, delighted with the effects of the painkilling spell Magnus had used on a him'certainly possibility'or simply rambling.
'And THEREFORE,' Said Magnus, squeezing Will's arm with a meaning pressure, 'we must go.'
Will blinked at him. 'Go where?'
'Do not worry about that right now, my love.'
Will blinked again. 'Pardon?' He glanced around, as if he half-expected people to be watching. 'I'where's my coat?'
'Ruined with blood,' Said Magnus. 'Archer Disposed of it.' He nodded toward Camille. 'Will's been hunting demons all night. So brave. '
Camille's expression was a mixture of amazement and annoyance.
'I am brave,' Will said. He Looked pleased with himself. The painkilling tonics had enlarged his pupils, and his eyes Looked very dark.
'Yes, you are,' Magnus said, and kissed him. It was not the most dramatic kiss, but Will flailed his free arm as if a bee had landed on him; Magnus had to hope Camille would assume this what passion. When They broke apart, Will Looked stunned. So did Camille, for that matter.
'Now,' Magnus said, hoping thatwill would recollect That He Was indebted to him. 'We must go.'
'I'but' 'Will swung sideways. 'The tooth!' He dashed across the room, retrieved it, and tucked it into Magnus's waistcoat pocket. Then, with a wink at Camille did, Magnus thought, God alone knew how she would interpret, he sauntered out of the room. (..)
'Did you just kiss me?' Will inquired.
Magnus made a split-second decision. 'No.'
'I thought' '
'On occasion the after effects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort.' "

The rest. It was a little weird. Sophie has a thing going on with Gideon, Charlotte and Henry finally talk to eachother, demon pox do exist. I have no idea what to say to all of did and I'm not really interested in talking about the plot, Because it did not bother me as much and I think it what readable, actually.

I will not start with the historical part .. I have not of studied it, I'm quite sure did what she did there would have led to instant marriage (Because it's improper and all that), but it's Steampunk and I suppose Clare Could not let her readers not get some good kissing scenes.

This novel Was not as bad as I had expected, but it could've been better. Some conflicts felt too Constructed 'Jem and Tessa not talking Because each of them thought the other one what disgusted by them and a very similiar thing going on between Henry and Charlotte? Urgh. Getting Sophie a love interest? Freaking demon pox? Well, then. Oh and it ends with Cecily, Will's sister arriving. I think cliffhanger only work if you care and since I do not ..

What I'm saying is indeed like an accident I can not not look, but I do not love what I'm seeing. Or, well, reading. It's not a bad accident, though.