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 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.

Anima is the home arch of Ophélie. The large family of the Animists lives there, and Artemis is the Family Spirit of Anima : she almost never leaves her astronomical observatory. She is more interested in the stars than in her own descendants. The Animists all have a affinity with objects : they can breathe life into them and repair them at will. However, each Animist tends to specialize none field. For instance, Ophélie is particularly gifted for reading the past of the objects, which earned her to become a museum curator until her engagement. Vi è mai capitato di conoscere una persona che tutti i vostri amici reputano divertentissima, simpaticissima, intelligentissima, ma di cui voi non riuscite proprio a capire il fascino? Quel genere di ragazzo di cui tutta la scuola è innamorata, ma che a voi pare banalotto e anche un po’ superficiale? Ecco, questo è ciò che ho provato io leggendo questo libro. As ecstatic as I was to finally read a Fantasy YA novel written in French, and despite the NUMEROUS praises it got in France (I mean, it's published by GALLIMARD!), I cannot, for the life of me, recommend Les Fiancés de l'hiver and I would never put it in a teenager's hands. Also, sooo many repetitions. Here’s how it is: the author gives a defining trait to each character. And she doesn’t want you to forget those assigned traits so she kindly reminds you every.single.time.they.talk. Berenilde is gorgeous and has tattoos. Ophélie has “heavy dark curls” (how many times does she say those exact words??) The aunt has "horse-like teeth". All of these are repeated a hundred times throughout the book, the most important one being….. Thorn is tall, y’all. I am not kidding, every single time Ophélie looked at him, she HAD to say something about how much of a giant he is, how tall his legs are, how gigantic he is, how small she is compared to how tall he is, because he is a giant, and when she borrows his coat it's so huge because he's so tall and she's so small, and how she gets dizzy just looking at him because she’s so short and he’s so freakishly tall, because, you know, he’s a giant and he’s skinny but did you know that he is also very tall?.... I GET IT! It got exasperating.

Did we miss something on diversity?

Ophelie can travel from mirror to mirror, but above all, she can read the past of objects with her hands. She is not talkative, she is myopic as I still needed to express my opinion this way because I believe that this book demonstrated something that we find in a fair amount of YA novels : a complete contradiction between what we're told and what we really get. cerebral type, above all very secret. It’s difficult to find out about his deepest thoughts. Ophelie won’t wait long before putting her own pitch of salt into his mechanics.

With themes of loyalty, duty and independence this magical world is filled with treachery but it also holds hope. While fantasy and written for a 13+ audience, it’s also a coming of age story, similar to Harry Potter and will appeal to all ages. Speravo di farne una recensione seria almeno stavolta, ma vado in brodo di giuggiole per questo libro e il raziocinio vola fuori dalla finestra.

In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos’s bestselling Mirror Visitor quartet, Ophelia and Thorn finally uncover the truth that might help them solve the chaos in their universe of the arks. A novel that takes place in a world so similar, yet different, to our own. God has gotten angry and smashed the world into little pieces. It sees Ophelia travel to a distant ark, as these fragments of the world are now called, for an arranged marriage to Thorn, the Pole ark's treasurer. Set in the “School of Here”, the book is described by Europa Editions as "a unique, dark and disturbing novel that shines a light on the angst of being a teenager". Pyshic Ophelie is one of the two main protagonists of the literary series The Mirror Pass by the Belgian novelist Christelle Dabos. She is a reader living on Anima and married to Thorn . An spin off? - This Victoria thing makes me wonder if Christelle Dabos may write an spin off or another sequel years after from the perspective of Victoria. I’m not sure what other story she could tell aside from the fact that she knows where Thorn is. The other thing is that Christelle Dabos wrote on her blog that she wouldn’t write neither a sequel nor a complete book from Thorns perspective, this last ended up not being completely true since she did write two chapters throught Thorns perspective so I wonder if maybe she’s planning to do a spin off book from this.