嘘のない世界など どこにもない時代でも 確かめたい 自分だけに 刻まれてるDNA

[xanithofdragons]

It took me a few days, but I finished reading Clockwork Princess. I finished the Infernal Devices series. But before I get into that, a tale about my college's mail center. My college gives every student a mail box, and students have the same boxes as long as they're students here. It's a tiny little box, though, so only things like envelopes and slips of paper can actually go in them. When a package comes addressed to any of those boxes, they're supposed to put a slip saying that there's a package in the box it's addressed to, but sometimes it takes a day for the slip to get in the box. Sometimes it takes longer or they never actually put a notification in the box. This happened to me earlier this semester and I had a package for about a week before knowing it was there (amazingly enough, I had never seen it so delayed the rest of my time here at college.) Aside from the package slips, there are also lists of all the packages (split by courier) that are far more reliably updated, so if I want to know as soon as I can if I have a package, it's better to check the lists (and then you can also creepily know who else has packages.)

Sorry if all that is really normal, but they point is that I had checked my mailbox to see if my copy of Clockwork Princess had arrived, but then checked the tracking online later and realized it should have already been there when I had checked my mailbox, lol. So I walked back to the mail center to get it.

To finally actually talk about the book itself, I'm happy with the ending. I cried plenty (and oops got my tears on the pages >_<), but it was both happy and sad tears. In the first part of the book, I was excited and fangirling out over the characters and the jokes and the flashbacks, but then the part where we're lead to believe Jem died came, and I was so sad it felt like I was just working toward the end of the book to ease the pain. But I should have known! I should have known that if a character's death scene isn't directly portrayed, there's such a great chance that they haven't actually died. >_<

I'm really glad that in the end, Tessa could love both Jem and Will and both of them could love Tessa and that both of them could love each other, even if not in a romantic love kind of way. My biggest OT3. ♥♥♥ There are people who say you can only love one person, and if you love two people, you don't actually love both? But that's just not the way everyone is, so I'm glad Cassie wrote a story about a woman who loves two men so strongly. And everything about the dynamic of the three of them is so deep and interesting. Even in the part where I though Jem was dead, I was still hoping for OT3. ^^; With all of Jem's references to reincarnation, I was kinda thinking maybe it would go that after Will died, Will and Jem would be reincarnated and be drawn to each other and Tessa and have OT3. Yep. That's how dedicated I am to Will/Jem/Tessa.

And just all the relationships in the Infernal Devices are so cool. There're the other romantic relationships, like Charlotte and Henry having their conflicts while still loving each other so much, and Gideon being awkward with Sophie who's had bad experiences with men before, and Gabriel and Cecily getting drawn to each other. Then there are also all the friendships, like Sophie who does Tessa's hair even after Sophie's become a shadowhunter, now as just a friend and not as a maid, and Will and Jessamine reconciling, and Will and Gabriel still poking fun at each other all the way to the end and Magnus and Henry bonding over inventions. And there's Will and Cecily's relationship with their parents and with each other, and also the whole institute being like a family. It's all so great. The characters are interesting because of their relationships, and the relationships between them are interesting because their characters are well-rounded and interesting. It's great.