The Infernal Devices

A Prequel Series to The Mortal Instruments

"Cassandra Clare’s Clockwork Angel has got everything: set in Victorian London but with an American heroine — feisty and attractive, natch; it features the Nephilim, a category of quasi-angelic beings (remember Genesis, about there being giants in the world in those days?) and some interesting vampires . . . one of the Nephilim falls for the heroine but can’t, for unspoken reasons, consummate his longing . . .the human elements of the story are well told. Have to say, it’s a cracking read.”

–The Evening Standard