Clockwork prince (2011)
Clockwork prince is a 2011 london (england) book written by Cassandra Clare.
Victorian London hides a war most citizens never see. Tessa Gray, a young woman with a strange shape-shifting power, lives among the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, half-angel warriors who hunt demons in the fog. In this second Infernal Devices novel, the Institute's leader Charlotte faces a council ready to remove her, and Tessa and her friends must track the elusive Mortmain before they lose everything. Cassandra Clare threads clockwork automatons, a slow-burning love triangle, and Nephilim politics through a moody nineteenth-century setting. It is a prequel to the world of her Mortal Instruments series.
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What is Clockwork prince about?
Victorian London hides a war most citizens never see. Tessa Gray, a young woman with a strange shape-shifting power, lives among the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, half-angel warriors who hunt demons in the fog. In this second Infernal Devices novel, the Institute's leader Charlotte faces a council ready to remove her, and Tessa and her friends must track the elusive Mortmain before they lose everything. Cassandra Clare threads clockwork automatons, a slow-burning love triangle, and Nephilim politics through a moody nineteenth-century setting. It is a prequel to the world of her Mortal Instruments series.
When was Clockwork prince published?
Clockwork prince was published in 2011.
Who made Clockwork prince?
Clockwork prince was written by Cassandra Clare.
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Fans who want more of Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter world have two screen options: the film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and the longer-running series Shadowhunters, both built from her modern-day novels set in the same Nephilim mythology.
Secret societies that train hunters to fight monsters hiding among us
Tessa's London Institute trains half-angel warriors to hunt demons most people never see, and this set shares that same hidden order. Shadowhunters and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones return to Cassandra Clare's own world, Supernatural and Demon Slayer send hunters after their own monsters generation after generation, and Jujutsu Kaisen and Tokyo Ghoul build entire organizations around policing what ordinary humans can't fight.
Doomed romance that has to compete with a much bigger duty
Tessa's feelings for two very different men keep colliding with a war she never asked to join, and these four sit in that same bind. The Song of Achilles and Wizard and Glass both fold young, aching romance inside a much larger, deadlier quest, while The Vampire Diaries and Re:ZERO make loyalty and love genuinely costly instead of simple.
Kids with dangerous gifts kept inside an institution built to use them
The London Institute raises Shadowhunter children for a war they didn't choose, and these four imagine other young people held inside walls built around their gifts. Stephen King's The Institute and Stranger Things both trap psychic kids inside a facility studying them, The Promised Neverland hides its children's true value from them entirely, and Locke & Key ties a family's power to a house they can't leave behind.