The Clockwork Prince

The book I want to talk about today, is Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. It is a sequel of the Clockwork Angel, by the same author. The main character of this book, Tessa, is trying to learn of her past. She has some strange powers like shape shifting and she does not know where it came from, since both of her parents were humans. Simultaneously, Tessa and a group of Shadowhunters are looking for a man named Mortmain who created a mechanical army. Somehow, Mortmain knows the Shadowhunters every move, so the only possibility is that a traitorous spy is with the Shadowhunters.

This blog will not be about Tessa or the search, though. I am going to focus on a Shadowhunter named Will.   He is a broken, sad young man with a despairing past. He freed a demon from a box and that demon cursed him: all who love him will die. The next day his oldest sister died. Terrified, Will fled away from home believing this curse was truly upon him. He was cleverly deceived, though. There was no curse. His sister died of the demon’s poisonous sting that she received. All this time he thought he had a curse upon him and made people hate him instead of loving him.

Whoever Will considered as a person that possibly may care for him or fall in love with him, he had put them down. He was always depressed and negative towards people, having bad attitude and usually insulted them. In this way he used five years of his life trying to make people hate him for nothing. Now, after he learned about the demon's deception, he is very sorrowful.

We often hurt our loved ones because of many different reasons. An insult is like throwing a stone, once it leaves your mouth, you can’t stop it. You can try to fix the wounds but there will always be a scar.