Joy101 reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)
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Paperback, 528 pages
Published June 6, 2009 by Galimar jeunesse.
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l'arche d'Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre à la Citacielle, capitale flottante du Pôle. À quelle fin a-t-elle été choisie ? Pourquoi doit-elle dissimuler sa véritable identité ? Sans le savoir, Ophélie devient le jouet d'un complot mortel.
Sous son écharpe élimée et ses lunettes de myope, Ophélie cache des dons singuliers : elle peut lire le passé des objets et traverser les miroirs. Elle vit paisiblement sur l'arche d'Anima quand on la fiance à Thorn, du puissant clan des Dragons. La jeune fille doit quitter sa famille et le suivre à la Citacielle, capitale flottante du Pôle. À quelle fin a-t-elle été choisie ? Pourquoi doit-elle dissimuler sa véritable identité ? Sans le savoir, Ophélie devient le jouet d'un complot mortel.
mouse reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)
like re-reading a childhood favorite
5 stars
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if …
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it because it's been retrconned into my cherished childhood lore.
Axl reviewed Les Fiancés de l'hiver by Christelle Dabos (La Passe-miroir, #1)
Review of "Les fiancées de l'hivers" on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Reread 2022, Previously 5 stars
I really like this book, the writing is enchanting and easy to read, the story and characters are original, they sometimes can feel "cold" and removed but you surprise yourself when you end up attached to them
Reread 2022, Previously 5 stars
I really like this book, the writing is enchanting and easy to read, the story and characters are original, they sometimes can feel "cold" and removed but you surprise yourself when you end up attached to them
John reviewed A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos (The Mirror Visitor Quartet, #1)
Review of "A Winter's Promise" on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Re-reading to see if I like it better in English.
Subjects
- The Marvelous
- French literature
- Conspiracy
- Mirrors
- Fantasy fiction
- Arranged marriage
- Fiction
- Children's fiction