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★★★★☆ This book actually started showing me why this series is so popular and without a doubt is my favorite entry so far. There were actual twists and interesting story elements, and for the most part, they all worked really well. Buy the book here: Amazon Book Depository Barnes & Noble

★★★☆☆ The "Below" part of this book was spectacular and really well done but unfortunately the "Above" part was rather disappointing and I lost interest pretty quickly after that. Buy the book here: Amazon Book Depository Barnes & Noble

★★★☆☆ This book is very interesting, is the simplest way to put it. Sometimes I really hated it. Sometimes I really loved it. Most of the time it was painfully predictable. Sarah J Maas obviously wasn't going for subtly with some of those so-called  plot twists . I have a lot of feelings about this book but for some reason, I keep reading. The world is just too cool though the characters are a little dumb. I guess I'll just go on to the next book. I've got nothing better to do. Buy the book here: Amazon Book Depository Barnes & Noble

Avg. ★★★☆☆ Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy ★★☆☆☆ The Lost Herondale ★★★☆ ☆ The Whitechapel Fiend ★★★ ★★ Nothing but Shadows ★★★☆ ☆ As usual, the dialogue of these stories is always painfully unrealistic and lacking the wittiness of Simon. The Evil We Love ★★★ ★ ☆ Pale Kings and Princes ★★★ ★★ Bitter of Tongue ★★★ ★★ The Fiery Trial ★★★ ★ ☆ Born to Endless Night ★★★☆ ☆ Angels Twice Descending ★★★ ★★ I'm  sobbing  so freaking hard omg why? Buy the book here: Amazon Book Depository Barnes & Noble

★★★☆☆ For those of you who have already read The Mortal Instruments and liked it, I suppose reading Clockwork Angel will be a somewhat pleasant, somewhat unpleasant deja vu. For starters, it involves a girl from New York who is introduced to the Shadowhunters by a hot headed, obvious love-interest Herondale. Doesn't exactly prove Cassandra Clare's versatility, does it? The world building that Clare crafted throughout all six books of TMI never seemed too rushed, though I admit it got rather exposition-y at times; whereas, Will Herondale literally hands Tessa a book of Shadow World 101 that she spews verbatim at the reader only a few chapters in. Besides that, the plot didn't really stand on it's own. I know Clare was a fan fiction writer before writing TMI, but making a fan fiction out of your own story? It's just a City of Bones copy that got a period piece twist. It wasn't until more than half way through, when the clockwork automatons became...