It's not always clear why Tessa prefers Will to his beloved (and only) friend Jem, the dying, silver-eyed, biracial sweetheart with the face of an angel. Our heroes are Tessa, who may or may not be a warlock, and the beautiful Shadowhunter warrior boys who are moths to her forbidden flame. There's betrayal, mayhem and clockwork monstrosities, and the Shadowhunters have only two weeks to discover-oh, who are we kidding? The plot is only surprisingly tasty icing on this cupcake of a melodramatic love triangle. This sequel to Clockwork Angel (2010) pits gorgeous, attractively broken teens against a menacing evil. Millie’s oblivious arrogance toward a friend who comes out as asexual and toward Callie over racial identity is handled far too perfunctorily, but Murphy’s plot brims with unlikely friendships, irresistible romance, fabulous fat acceptance, and a kick-ass ending. And the supposed everlasting sisterhood of her fellow dance team members falls at the first hurdle. Speaking little Spanish, she sometimes feels out of place with other Mexican-Americans yet frequently experiences casual racism from strangers and her exploitative boyfriend.
Callie is grappling with being biracial while living with her racially unaware white mother, stepfather, and half sister. But when Millie’s aunt and uncle’s gym is vandalized by the dance team after being forced by poor profits to withdraw its sponsorship, the only team member to get caught-and required to work alongside Millie at the gym-is Callie Reyes, whose prickly affect stands in contrast to Millie’s sunny optimism. Meanwhile, she’s bouncily organizing sleepovers with her friends and flirting with Malik, an attractive South Asian boy at school. Instead, she’s applying-behind her parents’ backs-to a broadcast journalism program.
Millie’s decided to end her nine-year stint at weight-loss summer camp: She’s fine being fat, which weight-loss camp hasn’t changed anyway. Vandalism throws a teen of unflagging cheer into regular contact with her polar opposite in this novel told in alternating first-person chapters.
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