Friday, March 10, 2017

Series Review - The Infernal Devices




















The Infernal Devices
Cassandra Clare

7 Stars
1520 Pages
YA / Supernatural / Paranormal / Romance /

The companion series to the Mortal Instruments.
We are once more introduced to Shadow Hunters. This time in London, England, 1878. We meet William Harendale, James Carstairs, Tessa Grey, Gabriel Lightwood and Charlotte Fairchild. 
It has a Sherlock Holmes vibe as we learn of the infernal devices and race against the clock to thwart the evil Magisters plot to end the Nephelim. Along the way our characters must lift a curse, discover their family origins, find a cure for a terminal illness, and reclaim a family's honour... I wont give away anything else because it would spoil the novels. 

These books were wonderful!!! I got into them in a way I just couldn't get into the Mortal Instruments (which I have yet to finish 1.5 books to go). The setting fit so much better with the characters and their world; a steam punk, classic felling that just meshed with who the Shadow Hunters are and how their culture functions. These characters were (at least to me) a sign of how Clare's writing has grown and improved, they were a lot more dynamic and rounded, they still fell back on a lot of YA tropes but the flow was smoother. I think with it being only a trilogy instead of a full series helped out in so many ways because the books were condensed. Clare has a habit of repeating the same issues over and over again, having a character hung up on a single point that is semi solved only to reappear. This is one of my biggest issues with the Mortal Instruments and it was present but to such a small degree it didn't affect my rating much.

I would recommend these over the Mortal Instruments every day of the week, this series was just so much better in every aspect and I hope that this trend carries over into the next companion trilogy; Lady Midnight, which I hope to be starting soon.



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