The Infernal Devices 1: Clockwork Angel

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Will rides back on Balios once he realizes he and Jem have been tricked, leaving Jem to ride the carriage with only one horse, slowing him down. He informs Tessa of how he had come to London to bribe Mortmain into taking him to the Pandemonium Club. Tessa is also introduced to the head of the Institute, Charlotte Fairchild, whom Tessa almost immediately takes a liking to, her eccentric husband Henry, and the self-absorbed ward of the Institute, Jessamine Lovelace.

And I must say he has a dark past and doesn't want to involve anyone in it,even the people he really cares about. Oh yes, Westerners were, and sometime still are, being referred to as 'ghosts' in Chinese because in Chinese myth, only dead people/ghosts have pale white skin and yellow/red hair!The book became a best-seller in the New York Times list, debuting number 1 on the children's bestselling list.

The rest of the book is based around her discovering the Shadow world and making a life with the new people she encounters. Oh, and it has to be super obvious who's going to win (it's usually the cocky jerk, not the nice guy).Mortmain, believing he has won, agrees, but once the army has left the room, Tessa, knowing that Mortmain valued her life and would use her powers for ill-use, stabs herself in the heart and falls into the fountain. Dark is about to perform a spell to animate hundreds of automatons de Quincey possesses in Highgate. I read the back of this book, after having read Cassandra Clare's previous books, thinking "Hmm, not sure that sounds much good". I mean, even the rudest characters in Jane Austen's novels wouldn't talk in the same way like Clare's characters. She proceeds to her room to rest, but loses her way, and Will gives her a tour, introducing her to their servants Agatha and Thomas along the way.