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

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I loved her reclusive, mirror-walking heroine Ophelia, whose grit and integrity will surely win through! And I love that the other covers in the series follow the same solid color with ink drawing of a location pattern that is established with A Winter's Promise. Sono felice che apparentemente la relazione tra Ophelia e il suo fidanzato non si basi su falsi sentimenti di amore (anche se lei più volte si sente in colpa per questo se non addirittura che vaneggia su un papabile innamoramento da parte di lui. But there are three more books coming, and I am really excited to see how strong she becomes, and how she can change her world for the better.

We get the sense right off that Thorn is not going to be a man who makes you swoon because he knows how to treat a woman. Writing style is so amazingly interesting that I have not read anything so refreshing since picking up Harry Potter books so many years ago. QUINDI: Fantasy che mescola intrecci politici, inganni e colpi di scena, il tutto incorniciato da un contesto assolutamente geniale e originale. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, Ophelia hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Readers' passion for this series comes from the pleasure of walking up and down the world of the Arks, weightless floating islands that are ruled by family spirits and humans gifted with special powers. To add insult to injury, sex is portrayed as being fundamentally impure, especially, of course, when women are involved.

A rivalry forged over centuries of appealing to Farouk's desire to understand his book fueled by illusion, illusions that emulate falsified society, illusions that reach the nervous system to affect the brain and then the body/physicality, the last of a clan that can see through illusion! Soprattutto perchè non considera le opinioni di Ophelia, non l'ascolta mai veramente e non le dà gli strumenti per vincere la sua battaglia per la sopravvivenza. A fantastic epic, definitely, but also a coming-of-age novel, this first volume makes a strong impression. Passé les premières pages, engageantes et intrigantes, l'action stagne et s'il se passe des choses, l'histoire en soi n'avance pas vraiment, pas assez en tout cas au bout de 400 pages. It was interesting to read how the author created a world where the social norms seem quite different from my own.I loved reading so much it was consciously integrated into my identity -- the, maybe, tertiary source of how I knew myself, even. Recognizing souls in objects, animating the items that populate our environments -- especially through relationship, READING an object's past through the people that have owned it, mirror travelling! Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. But we HAD to see what kind of person Ophelia is and what her circumstances are and the horrible situation she is thrust into. 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.

The heroine's opinion is constantly overlooked, even when she expresses clearly her disapproval, which is rare enough already. The worlds are like nothing I’ve ever read before and I loved how Dabos interwove classic fantasy elements into a fresh story. Il suo livello di passività all’interno della storia è esasperante: viene costantemente guidata, indirizzata, manipolata dagli altri personaggi, senza mai reagire o ribellarsi. And while there are many examples I could bring up to illustrate this claim, I'll spare an exhaustive list. I kept turning the pages to learn why on earth Ophelia was in Pole, what was happening in Pole, who are all these people, what will happen in the end?

No matter what Ophelia encountered as her storyline wove and ebbed, that consistent from the start was her unwavering aptitude for confrontation. Not sure I'd exactly recommend it for an adult reader, but like I said I read the entire series, and I'd definitely recommend it to any YA who like fantasy.