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

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It makes for a rather treacherous world to maneuver through and its NOT terribly action oriented though there are plenty of backstabby events and horrid situations instead. This graceful but strong novel is perfect for those seeking a new fantasy series to capture their imaginations.

Archibald, Gail, and Fox are very weakly strung along past the Missing of Clairdelune just for their presence in the finale to have very little gravity. To address the quartet's major faults as a whole: it mishandles the way it crafts reader's expectations. Since graduating in French from Oxford University, Hildegarde Serle has worked in London as a newspaper subeditor, mainly on The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph . That is, even though the mechanics of her world are not watertight (she alone seemed to have a working grasp on her inverted dual-dimensions), there were still many moments in which the connections she envisaged for her fictive world enabled in me a genuine investment in what she was trying to say. More imaginative than cerebral, she begins to scribble her first texts on the benches of the faculty.Some descriptions will stick with me, especially about the use of illusions and what's really underneath them. Per il resto, la nostra eroina non ha nessuna qualità, ambizione o capacità, se non quella legata al potere di cui è dotata fin dalla nascita.

Fidanzati dell’inverno ha riscosso un grande successo in Italia e all’estero, è stato acclamato anche dai recensori più severi e la sua pubblicazione ha ricevuto un’accoglienza a dir poco entusiasta. Quant au monde décrit, je dois reconnaitre que je l'ai trouvé fascinant, et c'est ce qui me rend si triste : Les Fiancés de l'hiver avait tant, tant de potentiel. I loved her reclusive, mirror-walking heroine Ophelia, whose grit and integrity will surely win through!

I’ve always been a pretty harsh critic, I have weirdly specific and high expectations for fantasy, and The Mirror Visitor series actually met all of them. The plot is a roller coaster, you have no idea where it’s going and just start enjoying the hell out of the ride only to feel crushing disappointment when it ends. The first installment in the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, A Winter’s Promise introduces readers to a remarkable heroine and to the richly imagined universe of the arks: floating celestial islands governed by the spirits of immortal ancestors. Ugh, I've never written so many sentences at one go on Goodreads because I'm lazy and probably not a good reviewer but I just love this so much and am so grateful it exists, I'm going to scream. Most of all, where the story leaves us, more than being mad or upset by, I just simply don't understand from an authorial and creative standpoint.

The male-lead is an indifferent, grumpy asshole, and my only satisfaction comes from the fact that Ophélie, the MC, doesn't love him.We've gotten the best start, a well thought out solid one, that will serve us well through the entire series. Les personnages m'intriguent autant que l'intrigue elle-même, et si je me suis attachée à Ophélie (et m'interroge beaucoup sur Thorn et mê Though the apparent scope of the world far exceeded that which we got to know in the course of the books, the portion we were exposed to I found to be fully-realized and genuinely thoughtful. Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d’Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games.

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. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. 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. es que la tía es una REINA), y como digo, ese mundo que crea la autora lleno de pequeños detalles tan únicos y originales hacen que para mi haya resultado una lectura totalmente deliciosa.Her peaceful, if somewhat dull existence on the ark of Anima is interrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a powerful clan from a distant ark, the cold and icy Pole. The story was a little slow to start but soon picks up pace when Ophelia in disguise is brought to court. Spells Trouble” follows twin witches, Hunter and Mercy, who live in Goodeville, Illinois at the apex of five ley lines of magic that keep gateways to the underworld at bay. 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.