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This book had been out a while since i finally bought it. I did not think it would be very good, because City of Bones was not my favorite book and i had not yet continued the series and come to LOVE IT!!! But the minute i started this book i realized it was one of those books that has a special plot, and THE BEST SETTING! Victorian Era is my favorite layout for a book. The characters are polite, and poised, and there is no cussing really. The description is crisp and clear, one of the best world-building that is acutally a world that has been built before! Cassandra is incredibly good at transporting the reader into the world! The second thing i LOVED about Clockwork Angel was Tessa Gray, the main character! I really like Clary in TMI, but i can't really connect cause she's a present-day desperate girl. But Tessa has two great things that distinguish her as a strong protagonist. One - her ability. The sequences of her ability, where Cassandra describes the flicker, and then the moment where she can't breathe, is breathtaking! I've always disliked some author's description of the feelings when someone uses their abilities, but Cassandra has a lyrical technique for it that shifts every time! Two - her personality! Clary is just a normal girl, who whines for boys and worries too much about boys! But Tessa is conscience of HERSELF, how she speaks, how she appears. She doesn't whine constantly in this wonderful book, and i liked that a lot! Overall, this is one of the best books of 2010! AMAZING!

I was a little hesitant to read this before I started it, as I really enjoyed Cordelia in the first collection, and had heard that she had only a minor role in this one. I worried that Miles, her son and the protagonist of this book, wouldn't hold a candle to her. That lasted around 2 pages. Don't get me wrong, Cordelia's still awesome, but over the course of this book Miles reveals himself to be one of the most entertaining characters I've ever encountered in literature. He's sarcastic, he's charasmatic, he's brash, he always ends up winning - if I knew him in real life I'd probably think he was an ass, but as a protagonist he's perfect. This book is a collection of two novels and a novella; if you don't realize that, it might seem a bit disjointed, but the three stories work well together, telling the story of Miles becoming a man and overcoming his physical defects by strength of his awesomeness. There are some standard science fiction bits in terms of the plot, but as in the first collection, Bujold really puts the characters on display at the central part of the book (which itself is a bit of a breath of fresh air).