A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1 (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, 1)

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I loved reading so much it was consciously integrated into my identity -- the, maybe, tertiary source of how I knew myself, even. We've gotten the best start, a well thought out solid one, that will serve us well through the entire series. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan.

With surgical precision, Christelle Dabos has created a hybrid world between fantasy and the Belle Époque. A best seller in France, Dabos's debut novel evokes both the whimsy and the deep-seated sense of justice of the Harry Potter series. Metaphors of personal and/or inner disconnect, asymmetry, and imbalance made to be able to be utilized in material instrumentation was another really cool concept; the idea of our own contradictions and multitudes made to be a fuel for real power and consequence, imagined as a matter disposable for exploitation, was genuinely cool. I've shared my loving adoration of Ophelia, but I'll say again that I love how she jumped into this world that is everything she is not and is dealing with it.

Like no more politics from the pole or tension from Thorn and his family, now it's an entirely new world with half-ass characters and pointless mystery plots. That is, her tendency to break down the singular installments into a fairly formal structuring worked really well for me. I won't say much more because as the book opens up, like Ophelia, you come to understand how life at the Pole works. L’altro elemento che mi ha lasciata perplessa è la struttura della “società matriarcale” su cui dovrebbe essere basata Anima. The biggest I problem I have of all the times that she does this has to do with her latter handling of important of characters from the first half of the series.

I cannot, for the life of me, recommend Les Fiancés de l'hiver and I would never put it in a teenager's hands. When against her wishes she is betrothed to a man on another Ark, Ophelia has to leave her secure and loving home and travel to a cold and desolate ark to marry him. Over the gradual span of assimilating Ophelia's and Thorn's own process of piecing together their reality, there were some things that genuinely struck me.When Berenilde tortures her and Thorn asks her about it, she chooses not to tell him, for reasons that are eerily similar to Harry Potter’s when he was being tortured by Dolores Umbridge. A lot of the story is focused on her learning about the Pole and its people after being thrust into a place she knows nothing about.

An unforgettable heroine, a rich and bountiful universe, intrigue and suspense: A Winter's Promise is perfect for readers of Margaret Rogerson's An Enchantment of Ravens , Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood , V. Non è un romanzo rosa, quindi non aspettatevi di avere grandi letture romantiche o dialoghi appassionati tra i due protagonisti. Less minute than the writing style itself, Dabos's knack for structuring her individual books I thought was well-done.

I am not kidding, every single time Ophélie looked at him, she HAD to say something about how much of a giant he is, how tall his legs are, how gigantic he is, how small she is compared to how tall he is, because he is a giant, and when she borrows his coat it's so huge because he's so tall and she's so small, and how she gets dizzy just looking at him because she’s so short and he’s so freakishly tall, because, you know, he’s a giant and he’s skinny but did you know that he is also very tall? Il sesso è sempre qualcosa di negativo, su cui ti giochi la reputazione ed è ovviamente considerato impuro se a compierlo è una donna.