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

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Fatico a comprendere come sia possibile tra l'altro, considerare vagamente interessante o romanticizzare la mancanza di tatto, educazione e i modi sessisti di Thorn. JustePhi Fandoms: La Passe-Miroir | The Mirror Visitor - Christelle Dabos, The Hunger Games (Movies), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins French author Christelle Dabos, creates complex layered worlds, and an enthralling and intricate plot that moves at a fast pace with lots of twists. Readers have been completely drawn in by this richly imagined universe of the arks: floating celestial islands governed by the spirits of immortal ancestors.

A lush, romantic tale about family, duty, and discovering your independence, this book is going to be a crowd pleaser!” La Passe-miroir ", le succès transgénérationnel de Christelle Dabos". Le Monde.fr (in French) . Retrieved 27 April 2018. Ricordava con particolare minuzia, nemmeno fosse stata lei stessa una Storiografa, tutto ciò che era stato rimosso anni prima; ogni ricordo che avrebbe potuto frantumare la fragile facciata che aveva costruito; ogni oggetto che rappresentava una storia conclusasi troppo presto. Let me start by saying that my two parts won't be sole translations : first because translating bores me to death, and secondly because given the fact that Les Fiancés de l'hiver is a French book, I just don't see the point in rambling in English about it. You want to solve every problem on your own,” she continued in a choked voice, “even if it means using people like chess pieces, even if it means making yourself hated by the whole world.”

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Psychic claws: After her marriage to Thorn, Ophélie gained the power to introduce illusions into people's nervous systems to cause them great pain or even to repel them violently; these illusions are called claws. She most often uses it unconsciously, as a result of anger. And there are so many more characters that will take you by surprise... Archibald, the architect, the mechanic, the servant that shows Ophelia the ropes, the Knight, Thorn's sister! GAHHHH! It's a lush, lush world with complex characters... Oh and I can't forget to mention Ophelia's scarf that is animated and lively like a squirmy pet!! Christelle Dabos, lauréate du prix du premier roman jeunesse Gallimard-RTL-Télérama". Télérama.fr (in French) . Retrieved 27 April 2018. I adore the cold and hard Thorn and his very subtle softening toward Ophelia. It doesn't happen swiftly and it isn't evident very much. He is a hard worker though and comes to respect Ophelia and that I really admire! The harder they are the more gooey they are inside...

A Winter's Promise Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet". Europa Editions . Retrieved 18 June 2019. After a misunderstanding, Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by the ancestral Spirit of the Pole, Lord Farouk.Then she is thrust into the most incredible of worlds!!!! Can you imagine?! Well that world doesn't appear until 25%! But we HAD to see what kind of person Ophelia is and what her circumstances are and the horrible situation she is thrust into... that took 24%. This is actually quite a tight setup, some books take upwards of 40 to 50% (and I could name quite a few hyped books that do...) so really A Winter's Promise gets underway and once it does I'm drawn right into Thorn's world... The world that Ophelia must navigate otherwise she won't survive to see herself married.

Ophelia was a great character, despite myself thinking that she needs to say something-speak her mind, we do have a character who has a quiet form of bravery and endures much pain. It was interesting to read how the author created a world where the social norms seem quite different from my own. You couldn't help but feel sorry for Ophelia as she is faced with an arranged marriage that she just doesn't want, and she is at odds with the other women in her family and those from the Pole who only seem to care for appearances and social standing. Empathy: During her readings Ophelia can feel the emotions of the people who have touched the object she is reading. In a unique universe, the world has been smashed up into different "arks". Ophelia is a young woman living on Anima. She has the ability to travel short distances through mirrors and can also read objects histories by touch. 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. Thorn is a powerful man, and has many enemies who will stop at nothing to see his and his future wife's demise. Honestly I didn't find it any more misogynistic than 99.9% of the other YA books I have read. The most popular YA franchises generally have the mistreatment of women as a theme. If a YA book can bring this to light I am all for it, provided there is an adequate resolution of the story line and at least permits young readers to recognise the issues and feel inspired to change their own world. Archibald finally let out a deep sigh. "I'll admit to you that I'm a little disappointed. It would have been frightfully amusing to have Thorn's betrothed at my disposal."

I trust only the science of probabilities. I have studied mathematical statistics, combinatorial analysis, mass function, random variables, and they have never held any surprises for me. You don’t seem fully to grasp the destabilizing effect that someone like you can have on someone like me.” Since she is my sister and since she is your Family Spirit, I suppose you are a kind of grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-niece ? »

Detto questo, per me Fidanzati dell'Inverno è indubbiamente un titolo molto interessante, l'ambientazione tra le più brillanti e vivide di sempre, un gioco di illusioni continue sorretto da una trama che ti rapisce completamente perchè costantemente in movimento, molto dinamica ed estremamente affascinante, piena di colpi di scena e intrighi. Mi ha ricordato a tratti Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie (in fondo assistiamo ad una protagonista che viene catapultata nella tana del Bianconiglio) e alcuni tratti invece più classici della letteratura Young adult fantasy (HP, Shadow & Bone, Twilight..) Speravo di farne una recensione seria almeno stavolta, ma vado in brodo di giuggiole per questo libro e il raziocinio vola fuori dalla finestra. First off Archibald's castle, changing spaces, masterpiece of architecture is literally a place I WANT to visit! It is an embassy where the different rivals can come and not be killed off... only is it as safe as they say?! Well there are some magical things like taking rooms to their own spaces, that do a good job at maintaining safety but there are always ways to get around those features...

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. She is not in her natural habitat and that is what made her so great... Everyone is super flat and one-dimensional. The bad guys are very mean, the good guys are very kind. It’s obvious that Ophélie and Thorn are going to end up loving each other. But you know what? I couldn’t bring myself to care, because Thorn doesn’t feel real. He’s too “cold” to be genuine. Can you seriously imagine someone like him? Nobody felt real. They’re just caricatures. The dialogues were awkward, nobody talks like that either. And could anyone really picture what the Family Spirits looked like? These descriptions were terrible. Christelle Dabos takes us to the heart of a momentous otherworldly game, in which the fate of her characters hangs in the balance. The Storm of Echoes is a marvellous conclusion to a series that has captivated readers everywhere.