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The Infernal Devices: The Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
I am so excited for this book! Right now its scheduled for a release date of December 6th,2011, and its available for preorder on Cassandra Clare's
website and on Borders.com. I also can't wait for the cover to be released on May 25! Cassandra Clare has also posted a bunch of teasers on her
website, which I will post here:
October 2010 Teaser:
Will looked at Jem. His eyes were bluer than blue, his cheeks flushed. He said, “Then you have wasted your time.”
Jem stared back at him. “God dang you,” he said, and hit Will across the face, sending him spinning. He didn’t lose his footing, but fetched up
against the side of the carriage, his hand to his cheek. His mouth was bleeding. He looked at Jem with total astonishment.
“Get him into the carriage,” Jem said to Tessa, and turned and went back through the red door — to pay for whatever Will had taken, Tessa thought.
Will was still staring after him.
“James?” he said.
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January 2011 shorts:
“What desperation drove you to me, in the middle of the night, in a
rainstorm? What has changed at the Institute? I can only think of one
thing…”
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Will: ““Tess,” he said, and she thought, once again, how no one but
him ever called her that. “That is all I think about.”
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Tessa: “Jem!” she cried again, and when he did not look up, she
strode across the room, and wrenched the bow out of his hand. “Jem, stop!”
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“They’re not hideous,” said Tessa.
Will blinked at her. “What?”
“Gideon and Gabriel,” said Tessa. “They’re really quite good-looking, not hideous at all.”
“I spoke,” said Will, in sepulchral tones, “of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls.”
Tessa snorted. “And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?”
“Mauve,” said Will.
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Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
“Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”
“I —”
“You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”
“Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to
hurt you.”
Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —”
“You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the
panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —”
“Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And
whose fault is that?”
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“He’s Nephilim,” said his companion. “And you’ve never cared for them.
How much did he pay you?”
“Nothing,” said Magnus, and now he was not seeing anything that was
there, not the river, not Will, only a wash of memories: eyes, faces,
lips, receding into memory, love that he could no longer put a name
to. “He did me a favor. One he doesn’t even remember.”
“He’s very pretty. For a human.”
“He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has
smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was
before.”
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“Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile.
Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and
consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni
hen piao liang.”
“What did you say?” Tessa was curious.
“I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out
and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood
spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the
carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand
back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.
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““You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve
barely lived.”
February 2011 Teaser:
They slowed finally at the southeastern corner of the church. Watery daylight poured through the rose windows overhead. “I know we are in a hurry to
get to the Council meeting,” said Jem. “But I wanted you to see this.” He gestured around them. “Poet’s Corner.”
Tessa had read of the place, of course, where the great poets and writers of England were buried. There was the gray stone tomb of Chaucer, with its
canopy, and other familiar names: Edmund Spenser, who had written The Faerie Queen, “Oh, and Milton,” she gasped, “and Coleridge, and Robert Burns,
and Shakespeare —”
“He isn’t really buried here,” said Jem, quickly. “It’s just a monument.”
“Oh, I know, but —” She looked at him, and felt herself flush. “I can’t explain it. It’s like being among friends, being among these names. Silly, I
know . . .”
“Not silly at all.”
She smiled at him. “How did you know just what I’d want to see?”
“How could I not?” he said. “When I think of you, and you are not there, I see you in my mind’s eye always with a book in your hand.” He looked away
from her as he said it, but not before she caught the slight flush on his cheekbones. He was so pale, he could never hide even the least blush, she
thought — and was surprised how affectionate the thought was.
She had become very fond of Jem over the past fortnight; Will had been studiously avoiding her, Charlotte and Henry were caught up in issues of Clave
and Council and the running of the Institute —even Jessamine seemed preoccupied. But Jem was always there. He seemed to take his role as her guide to
London seriously: they had been to Hyde Park and Kew Gardens, the National Gallery and the British Museum, the Tower of London and Traitor’s Gate.
They gone to see the cows being milked in St James Park, the fruit and vegetable sellers in Covent Garden, had watched the boats sailing on the
sun-sparked Thames from the Embankment. And as the days went on, Tessa felt herself unfolding slowly out of her quiet, huddled unhappiness over Nate
and Will and the loss of her old life, like a flower climbing out of frozen ground. She had even found herself laughing. And she had Jem to thank for
it.
“You are a good friend,” she exclaimed, and when, to her surprise, he said nothing to that, she said, “At least, I hope we are good friends. You do
think so too, don’t you, Jem?”
He turned to look at her.
April 2011 Teaser (also called the Dirty Sexy Balcony Scene on Twitter  )
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He reached up and unlocked Tessa’s hands from around his neck. He drew her gloves off, and they joined her mask and the hairpins on the stone floor of
the balcony. He pulled off his own mask next and cast it aside, running his hands through his sweat-dampened hair, pushing it back from his forehead.
The lower edge of the mask had left marks across his high cheekbones, like light scars, but when she reached to touch them, he gently caught at her
hands and pressed them down.
“No,” he said. “Let me touch you first.”
April/May Teaser:
The door to the training room opened. Tessa and Sophie turned as Gabriel Lightwood strode into the room, followed by a boy she had not met. Where
Gabriel was slender and darker-haired, the other boy was muscular, with thick, sandy-blond hair. They were both dressed in gear, with
expensive-looking dark gloves studded with metal across the knuckles. Each wore silver bands around each wrist — knife sheaths, Tessa knew — and had
the same elaborate, pale white pattern of runes woven into the sleeves of their gear. It was clear not just from the similarity of their clothes but
the shape of their faces and the pale, luminous green of their eyes that they were related, so Tessa was not in the least surprised when Gabriel said,
in his abrupt manner:
“Well, we’re here as we said we would be. James, I assume you remember my brother, Gideon. Miss Gray, Miss Collins —”
Pleased to make your acquaintance,” Gideon muttered, meeting neither of their gazes with his. Bad moods seemed to run in the family, Tessa thought,
remembering that Will had said that next to his brother, Gabriel seemed a sweetheart.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Thanks!! I am excited for the book even though I didn't enjoy Clockwork Angel as much as the MI series. I am still excited for the next book... 
Boys in Books are just Better
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off all you had to do was ask."- Jace <3
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I gotta read those later. Those are some long teasers.
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Im in love with Will! I cant wait to read this
You, Yes, You, linger inside my heart Y
think I may cheat on Marcus Flutie... dang you Seth Mortensen!
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This just in! The cover for Clockwork Prince is being released officially on May 25th at 9 am at Simon & Schuster booth at Book Expo America, NYC.
It will also be released on this website at 10 am the same day:
http://mundiemoms.blogspot.com/
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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I'm not all that excited. The first one sucked.
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What didn't you like about it?
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Oh sexy balcony scene!!!! I wonder who it could be?
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^I'm hoping its Jem and Tessa! 
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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The cover was released yesterday!
I know its small, so heres a link to it:
http://mundiemoms.blogspot.com/2011/05/clockwork-prince-cover-revea...
I don't really like it... something about the guy on it just bugs me. 
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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http://cassandraclare.livejournal.com/54654.html#cutid1
Cassandra put up all the chapter titles on her live journal, including a short one sentence description or a quote from each chapter.
In one of these descriptions, it also reveals that Jem is the man who is on the book cover.
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
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aww me too!! that was hot! hope it Tess and Will
You, Yes, You, linger inside my heart Y
think I may cheat on Marcus Flutie... dang you Seth Mortensen!
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Woo this book is out. I have it downloaded on my nook. Ill probably start it tomorrow. I am a little excited.
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Okay so I finished the book yesterday and I started reading CoFA again, just for fun.. I came across a part in the book pg 275 when Jace is laying in
bed at the Silent City, waiting for the brothers to put a protection back on him.
**this is a spoiler from clockwork prince
"Someone had carved the letters JG into the stone just above the beadstead, leaving him to wonder what that was about"
is clockwork prince Jessamine is sent into Silent City and at this time her name is Jessamine Grey...
anyone else think thats weird??
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is it out already? OMG I need it now!
You, Yes, You, linger inside my heart Y
think I may cheat on Marcus Flutie... dang you Seth Mortensen!
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oh i think thats a cool little link for the past and present.
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It makes me wondering if maybe Silent City is linked all together. Maybe there is different enterances all over the world, but they all just come into
one place?
<3 Amber
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Im in the middle of this! awww its soooo good!
You, Yes, You, linger inside my heart Y
think I may cheat on Marcus Flutie... dang you Seth Mortensen!
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I think the Silent City is same place everywhere in the world. diffrent entrances.
JG is most likely Jessaessa Grey.
THis book was amazing! Oh my god, I loved it more then I thought I could love a Cassandra Claire Book.
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I didn't think I would like these books after reading The Mortal Instruments, but I'm glad I gave them a try.
I really loved it!
everything was beautiful
and nothing hurt
- slaughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut
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i dont know but i had trouble reading the first book and now im having trouble reading this one. Im thinking its CC's writing style. It never really
appealled. I know ill enjoy the book at some point but right now its so hard to get into.
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Quote: Originally posted by Foxy8609  | | i dont know but i had trouble reading the first book and now im having trouble reading this one. Im thinking its CC's writing style. It never really
appealled. I know ill enjoy the book at some point but right now its so hard to get into. |
it's the same way for me too.
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