Independant Reading

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?... 
I'm currently reading Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare and am really enjoying it.  This week I have read:
9/5/12- 10 minutes, 8 pages (16-24)        9/9/12- 42 minutes, 33 pages (40-73)
9/6/12- 10 minutes, 8 pages (24-32)        9/9/12- 26 minutes, 23 pages (73-96)
9/7/12- 10 minutes, 8 pages (24-32)        9/9/12- 60 minutes, 50 pages (96-146)
I dont think that I have really devled all that much into this book, so here it goes...  There was this trial because Charlotte, who runs the Institue in London with her husband, Henry, is deemed responsible of losing Mortmain, an evil man who is making automatons- viscious, inhuman robots, and is assigned the task of finding his whereabouts in 2 weeks, or Benedict Lightwood canchallenge Charlotte for being in charge of the institue.  There's Will, a Shadowhunter and his parabatai- like his brother, but not.  It's where you, as a Shadowhunter, find another Shadowhunter before you turn eighteen.  Not everyone gets one.  You are then bound together and protect one another.  It can come in quite handy- Jem who is sick and has to take a drug to keep him alive but it makes him silver.  They seem to be very different.  Will, a lady's man who goes out to drink and the like and Jem, quiet and sweet and friendly.  There's also Tessa, a warlock... maybe?  She's unmarked- some have cat- like eyes, some a tail...- but shes not mundane- human.  She can change into someone, look into their thoughts and memories, become that person, just by holding an item that is close to them from a coat button to a locket they wore. In the pages I read, she changed into Aloysius Starkweather, a senile old man who might have been hiding some pieces of information when she, Will, and Jem visited him.  She saw the thoughts as fragments of mostly unsensable fragments, with little help.
        Gabriel and Gideon Lightwood are brothers and the sons of Benedict Lightwood and are training Tessa, Sophie, a maid in the Institute, and Jessamine- shes a Shadowhunter, but not proud of it.  She hasnt participated in any of it so far.  They are training them so that they can defend themselves in case of an attack, like what happened in the first book.  There's Magnus Bane, a warlock, and he is helping Will when he comes to see him distraught.  Will spills his story as to why he is so cold towards others and why he wants Magnus to send him to the demon world.  When he was 12, he curiously opened a box in his fathers office from when he was a Shadowhunter- he wasnt one anymore because he married a mundane and left that life- and a blue demon appeared and cursed him.  Anyone who loved him would die.  Not necessarily over night, but they would.  The demon started with his sister.  After that he left and stayed at the London Institute, making everyone think of him as cold and mean.
        He's only 17- I tend to forget that sometimes.  They act older than their age but then again not.  Will loves Tessa and thinks that he has to make her not love him and that that's the most important thing at the moment.  Tessa loves Will... or does she? She might be falling for Jem, who clearly to Sophie- in love with Jem- but not to Tessa, is in love with her.  Complicated and curious. Now at this point in the book, Will, having just seen this house that is housing his family- he cont go near because Mortmain has automatons ready to attack if he warns them- is freaked out and talks to Magnus who writes to Tessa telling her that Will may be getting himself into trouble.  She gets Jem and together they find Will, having abused subastances at the place where he buys the drug for Jem, passed out and some stuff is about to go down...
       The line from the top of this post- sorry its so long, but a lot of stuff had to be said and described...- and Will says it when talking to Magnus. He got it from a letter that Tessa sent Nate- her brother, not exactly the nicest person now- when she was being forced to use her power. I really like it and it makes me think.... well, do you? So far, I really like this book as I did Clockwork Angel, and am excited to see what more will happen...will they find Mortmain? Who does Tessa really love? What about Jem's illness and Will's curse?  We shall see...