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

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I really enjoyed this book, whipping through it in a couple of sessions. Christelle Dabos weaves an amazing tale, through rich settings and characters This is the first book in The Mirror Visitor series, and I'll definitely be on the lookout for the rest of the series as they become available. A first rate fantasy book. Affascinante vedere come sia stato elaborato un sistema magico molto particolare, dove in ogni Arca (ovvero in ogni regno/regione) ognuno possiede un potere specifico, diverso da ogni altro. I'm just done with this book. The storyline itself isn't even interesting enough for me to continue with it and the main characters are EXTREMELY bland. The Plague has left a population divided between Elites and Ordinaries—those who have powers and those who don’t; now, an Ordinary teen fights for her life.

Also, she’s so annoying because she consistently made poor decisions and refused what her allies advised her to do. 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. Although in Ophélie’s case, it's just stupid and doesn’t make any sense. He could help you, you idiot!Peu importe la manière dont on nous le présente, la naïveté d'Ophélie, si agaçante en soi pour la bonne marche de l'histoire, se fait également l'alliée d'une représentation de la société complètement obsolète et, pour moi, dangereuse : A Winter's Promise Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet". Europa Editions . Retrieved 18 June 2019. Il sesso è sempre qualcosa di negativo, su cui ti giochi la reputazione ed è ovviamente considerato impuro se a compierlo è una donna. Chi tradisce è SEMPRE una donna e viene dipinta come una povera stupida senza cervello che cede alle lusinghe mentre l'uomo che la seduce passa in secondo piano. Le donne in una qualche posizione di potere sono descritte come manipolatrici e meschine, arroganti o spietate, facili alle cattiverie gratuite. quando Ophelia invece descrive le sorelle che utilizzano il fascino o sono sposate come delle sempliciotte sciocche senza arte né parte. Note : This review will be divided into two parts : the first one in English et la deuxième en français.

In 2013, she won the Gallimard-RTL-Télérama prize for first youth novel, for A Winter's Promise, the first volume of her Mirror Visitor quartet. [3] The title of the series ( La Passe-miroir in French) is inspired by Le Passe-muraille, a literary work by the French writer Marcel Aymé. [4] It’s only fairly recently that I discovered just how fabulous an author Rosie Goodwin really is. I haven’t caught up with everything that she has written but I am slowly but surely getting there. I read the synopsis for ‘The Winter Promise’ and it certainly sounded like I was in for a treat. I was spot on too because I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘The Winter Promise’ but more about that in a bit.

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Pecca enorme è il ritmo del romanzo che per me lentissimo, per 200 pagine non succede assolutamente nulla! E' stato un parto terminarlo. Ammetto di aver fatto skimming potente. The Winter Promise’ is superbly written. Rosie certainly knows how to combine the heartbreaking with the heartwarming. Rosie creates such likeable characters and describes them so vividly and so realistically that the characters seem just as real as you and I. I found myself becoming all protective towards Opal and her family. The pace of this book was spot on. The story hit the ground running and maintained a fairly fast pace throughout. I felt as though I was part of the story and that’s all thanks to Rosie’s very vivid and realistic storytelling. I was g Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength. One of Ophelia’s uncles has some great advice for her, after she confesses that she has no intention of having sex with Thorn: I read the book in two days (in my mother tongue) and rushed to the online store to buy the second one in english, as it is not translated in my idiom yet: so I would say, for me, the pacing worked very well.

Ophelia’s role is to spy on the other Arks for Thorn’s family and discover what they are keeping secret. In an effort to protect her own family and find out the truth about her new spouse, she unwillingly agrees to the duty, but she subsequently regrets it. I LOVE the cover... That is what attracted me to it at the first, it sold the premise and it didn't disappoint as I read. I loved that I got an idea of what the setting looked like from the cover. 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. I NEED this series on my book shelf! According to Ophelia, the “Invisible,” a powerful force in the Arks is responsible for many disappearances and mysterious deaths that have happened throughout the various Arks. 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.E. Schwab’s “Shades of Magic” series, Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone, Kenneth Oppel’s “Airborne” series, and N.K. Jemisin “Broken Earth” series. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Dabos, Christelle. A Winter’s Promise. Europa Editions, 2018.I come to appreciate Ophelia's godmother as much as she does, when she continually is outraged for her nieces sake! A Winter's Promise reminds me of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms of N.K. Jemisin, with Thorn, the grumpy taciturn Northerner kind of like Nahadoth from Jemisin book. Lose yourself in the world of the arks and in the company of an unforgettable character in this French runaway hit by debut author Christelle Dabos. A Winter’s Promise, the first installment in the Mirror Visitor Quartet, 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. Ophelia, a mix of awkward misfit and misunderstood genius, possesses two special gifts: an unrivaled talent for reading the past of objects and the ability to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful 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. Ophelia must follow her fiancé to the towering city of Citaceleste, where nobody can be trusted. There, in the company of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world. Now if you'd please stop acting like my review is "harming" a tremendously popular novel, it'd be great. Have a good day. Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. 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. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.

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. One of the things I really appreciate about A Winter's Promise as a writer as well as a reader is her characters! Ophelia has certain gifts, just by touching an object she can read the feelings and mindset of people who have previously touched that object, and she also has the ability to travel through mirrors. Yet others have more powerful abilities and she fails to see why someone as insignificant as herself has been requested as Thorn's wife. She finds that people on the Pole ark aren't always as they seem, some she trusted will try to betray her, but she also finds some unexpected allies. What follows is a tale of political intrigue, manipulation and secrets as Ophelia finds that the truth is scarier than she first thought, and those around her find her stronger than she looks. And the one character I did like? It was Ophelia’s scarf. Yes, you read that right. I loved her scarf, which is alive and has a mind of it’s own. I wanted to read that story, about Ophelia and her scarf!Ophelia is an Anima with the specific gift of being able to read the emotions, thoughts, and scenes of objects belonging to past owners. She is extremely powerful at this, being one of the few who were actually trained to develop their power further. She also has the ability to be able to travel through mirrors. Ophelia is head-strong but soft spoken and loves her job in a museum here she can read the past items if she wishes to. Unlike her family members, she is not interested in appearances and couldn't care less about marriage or reproducing.