![]() ![]() ![]() The tale drags in places, but this crowdpleaser’s tension-filled conclusion ratchets toward a new set of mysteries. ![]() Though details differ, the general flavor of Tessa’s new family will be enjoyably familiar to the earlier trilogy’s fans the most important is Tessa’s rescuer Will, the gorgeous, sharp-tongued teenager with a mysterious past and a smile like “Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.” The lush, melodramatic urban fantasy setting of the Shadowhunter world morphs seamlessly into a steampunk Victorian past, and this new series provides the setup for what will surely be a climactic battle against hordes of demonically powered brass clockworks. A timely rescue brings Tessa to the Institute, where a group of misfit Shadowhunters struggles to fight evil. The sisters train the unwilling Tessa in previously unknown shapeshifter abilities, preparing her to be a pawn in some diabolical plan. Sixteen-year-old orphaned Tessa comes to London to join her brother but is imprisoned by the grotesque Dark Sisters. A century before the events of Clare’s Mortal Instruments trilogy, another everyday heroine gets entangled with demon-slaying Shadowhunters. ![]()
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