if i loved and enjoyed clockwork angel, it was twice exponented with my clockwork prince experience. without any more preambles, i'd say the love triangle among jem, tessa and will killed me. no, scratch that. tortured me! then killed me! like sledgehammering my heart, like slowly tweezering it until i can hear no more beats. in clockwork angel, the love triangle was what made me heeled up to it, coz that is how much i relish love triangules but right now, in this clockwork damn prince, it tore me apart. both of the guys strike me as the perfect ideal men, however polar different they may be from each other and flaw-filled they may be in their own ways, but just like Tessa, I was so much torn. who wouldn't be? two perfect but imperfect guys, hello?Choosing one would amount to a great pain inflicted to the other unchosen. goes to prove how much jem and will love tessa. each of his own has his own side, which led me to understand tessa in her huge dilemma. her heart was left risked and that made me heartbroken for the one she really loves. damn this painful book! clare must sort this out in the next book else i'll die a hundred more and waste what's left of my sanity. sigh. oh well. enough about stupid love! as for the plot, however slow it seems, looks well-paced for me, structured with some twists here and there, impressing me, enough to make me forget the lingering frustration i was having with the love dilemma the entire time. clare's writing is good, complementary to the setting of the story, and brushing the story with steampunkness that is just right for its genre to set the whole light of the story into a more engrossing one. there's something about the era the story was set that made me compelled to the setting of the story, the way clare describes London and vicinity, the coats and gowns, the carriage, the sexism and rules and everything that is Victorian, and clare's writing per se are all done in its most impeccable, more than sufficient to yank me out on my own era. i don't kid when i say you're a fool if you just mark this down on your TBR without really giving this a chance to read, coz by my Angel, i swear to your Angel you're a fool. oh and please don't read this if you haven't bothered yourself with clockwork angel.