A bittersweet resolution

SPOILERS AHEAD: Ahhhh, I loved this book so much! I feel like a broken record with how many times I've said I love this series. I think it was the magic, romance, and themes surrounding identity, family, sacrifice, and true love that pulled and reeled me in. I also think that each and every character's development was phenomenal. I even came to adore the Lightwood brothers despite their strange introduction (Gideon and Sophie's relationship was so sweet). Will's progression was probably most impactful to me, rivaled only with Jem's, though their growths are so contrasting. And the epilogue... wow, just wow. I started crying as soon as I began to read about the heartache Tessa had to shoulder as an immortal being. Having to watch Will grow old and die and then choose to embrace a life with Jem, who was just as mortal as his parabatai, made me cry even harder. It was all so bittersweet! But I wouldn't have wanted any other ending. I closed the book, and felt like I knew the characters, or at least wished that I did. I think that is the sign of truly good writing. 
Overall, I would recommend this series to anyone and everyone who has ever enjoyed a book founded on magic and turbulent romance.



Some of my favorite quotes from Clockwork Princess:

"Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sakes."

"No one understands what you feel but me, and no one understands what I feel but you, so can we not feel together?"

"It was as if he had taken his bow and used it as a paintbrush, creating a canvas upon which his soul was clearly displayed,"

"'Every heart has its own melody,' he said. 'You know mine.'"

"I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way."

"If there is no one to learn from the past, there is no one to carry on its lessons."

"You are not the last dream of my soul. You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming."

"Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

"For the first time in many long years she felt her heart open, and knew love as more than a memory."

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