First review: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

I have read the whole Mortal Instruments series and I loved every book in it. I thought the story was amazing and gripping and I found the Shadowhunter world quite interesting and I have gone through every book so fast. In the last one, City of Heavenly Fire, there were certain hints towards both the Infernal Devices series and the new upcoming series the Dark Artifices which left me intrigued and kind of excited to read both. Now, I have heard of the Infernal Devices before, but having seen that it was placed in the past, I didn't really want to read it at that point, but reading these little pieces of the story in the City of Heavenly Fire left me with a feeling of wanting to know more so I picked up the Clockwork Angel and started reading it. 

The Clockwork Angel is the first in the series, obviously. It is centered around a girl called Tessa Gray, which comes to London from New York in order to find her brother and join him there, given that their aunt, who has been taking care of them since their parents died, had also passed away. It turns out that someone else has been waiting for her on the docks rather than her brother and she ends up being kidnapped by these two women. She later finds out that she has this magical ability of Shape Shifting, in which her captors train her. Now, the story unravels from there and Tessa ends up meeting a group of Shadowhunters and begins this adventure of finding the mysterious Magister who ordered her kidnapping in the first place.

I can't say that I liked this book as the MI series. I found it a bit slow, and the rhythm of it seemed a bit off. I don't know if talking about a rhythm of a book is weird, but what I mean is that there isn't really a balance between the slow scenes, the day-to-day scenes in which you get to know the characters and the story and the plot itself and the action scenes which are those that should be exciting and thrilling. I found that the first ones were quite dragged out and the latter ones quite packed and too fast and there were a lot of stuff going on and the same time. So as I was reading the book, I was quite unsure about it, but I kept on reading it because I always finish a book.

In the end, when I finished it I actually quite liked it. This happens to me often, I don't know how I feel about a book when I'm reading it, but when I am done, I kind of get all my impressions together and I decided that I in fact enjoyed the book. Clockwork Angel was like that for me.

So to sum up, I did like it and enjoyed it, but I personally think that the Mortal Instruments were a lot better and more thought through.  Still, I started reading the next one in the series which is Clockwork Prince so I would recommend this book and give it a solid 3.5/5.