Long ago, following a cataclysm called "The Rupture," the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides.
Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, the young girl hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fiancée to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn't know it yet, a she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.
In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, "the plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details abound, and the story envelops the reader as the pages fly by." (Le Monde des ados)
When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. her gift―the ability to read the secret history of objects―is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this.
Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic and emotionally distant fiancé. As one influential courtier after another disappears, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond Pole's many illusions to the heart of a formidable truth.
In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future.
After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Farouk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?
My Review:
Wow, I just devoured these books! I wasn't really planning on reading these books, maybe just the first one. But I finished it, and I need to have more! I was just sucked into this amazing story, the world and the characters were just captivating!
Ophelia was so excellent to read about! She's taken from her home, taken to a place where she doesn't know the rules, and is quickly forced to learn them, and the stakes rise with book, alongside her power and knowledge. I loved to see her growth! And her relationship with Thorn, that strange, mysterious thing, I adored it to bits!
This author is French, and writes in French, and the versions that I'm reading are translated. Which posing an interesting question, because a part of this series is that God stumbles over their words, like try your dears, was supposed to be dry your tears. So I'm wondering what it was like in the original?
With each book, this series grew, both in writing and in scope. In the first book, we got a page, of God breaking the world, and it ended with maybe that's not what it happened, but the story was just Ophelia. In book 2, we got snippets spread out through the book of that page again, but with commentary. As well as bits of Farouk's perspective. And in book 3, we got bits of Victoria's perspective, which oh, that's a minor but important plot that I know is going to have horrible consequences in book 4!
I will say that between reading these books, and writing this review, I've read the end of The Storm of Echoes. I know how it's going to end. So my question is, why didn't they understand that because Ophelia is remembering Eulalia's memory, that she was the one who Ophelia released in her first mirror walking experience?
This author is French, and writes in French, and the versions that I'm reading are translated. Which posing an interesting question, because a part of this series is that God stumbles over their words, like try your dears, was supposed to be dry your tears. So I'm wondering what it was like in the original?
With each book, this series grew, both in writing and in scope. In the first book, we got a page, of God breaking the world, and it ended with maybe that's not what it happened, but the story was just Ophelia. In book 2, we got snippets spread out through the book of that page again, but with commentary. As well as bits of Farouk's perspective. And in book 3, we got bits of Victoria's perspective, which oh, that's a minor but important plot that I know is going to have horrible consequences in book 4!
I will say that between reading these books, and writing this review, I've read the end of The Storm of Echoes. I know how it's going to end. So my question is, why didn't they understand that because Ophelia is remembering Eulalia's memory, that she was the one who Ophelia released in her first mirror walking experience?
This was such a great series, I loved it so much, and I can't wait to read the finale!
Author: Christelle Dabos, Translated by Hildegarde Serle
Series: The Mirror Visitor Quartet #1, 2, 3
Read: October 18th, 19th, 19th, 2021
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: It sounded really great, and it's Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books!
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: September 25th 2018, October 29th 2019, September 8th 2020
Author: Christelle Dabos, Translated by Hildegarde Serle
Series: The Mirror Visitor Quartet #1, 2, 3
Read: October 18th, 19th, 19th, 2021
Source: Ebook.bike
Reason Why: It sounded really great, and it's Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2021 Books!
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: September 25th 2018, October 29th 2019, September 8th 2020
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A Missing of Clairedelune:
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The Memory of Babel:
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