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

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This work is a translation of another work of mine, Honra e Prejuízo. I decided to translate it so that it could reach more people. Forgive my mistakes, but I did my best, even though English is not my mother tongue. Series Wish the main character had some more, hem, character. She is a bit bland and doesn’t get much nor is overly curious to better understand her new surroundings. 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.

Detto questo, per me Fidanzati dell'Inverno è indubbiamente un titolo molto interessante, l'ambientazione tra le più brillanti e vivide di sempre, un gioco di illusioni continue sorretto da una trama che ti rapisce completamente perchè costantemente in movimento, molto dinamica ed estremamente affascinante, piena di colpi di scena e intrighi. Mi ha ricordato a tratti Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie (in fondo assistiamo ad una protagonista che viene catapultata nella tana del Bianconiglio) e alcuni tratti invece più classici della letteratura Young adult fantasy (HP, Shadow & Bone, Twilight..) Ophelia was a great character, despite myself thinking that she needs to say something-speak her mind, we do have a character who has a quiet form of bravery and endures much pain. It was interesting to read how the author created a world where the social norms seem quite different from my own. You couldn't help but feel sorry for Ophelia as she is faced with an arranged marriage that she just doesn't want, and she is at odds with the other women in her family and those from the Pole who only seem to care for appearances and social standing. Nonostante tutte le problematiche che questa saga può avere, non riesco a non amarla. Dabos, ti prego, non mandare tutto in vacca con il quarto volume. Ti prego.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! 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. Farouk is the Family Spirit of the Pole, an immortal creature, He is supposed to be gifted with extra-strong mental powers, but he is more inclined to the pleasures of the flesh. He is absolutely not interested in the fate of his descendants. His only concern is to deceive his worst enemy : boredom. Everyone is super flat and one-dimensional. The bad guys are very mean, the good guys are very kind. It’s obvious that Ophélie and Thorn are going to end up loving each other. But you know what? I couldn’t bring myself to care, because Thorn doesn’t feel real. He’s too “cold” to be genuine. Can you seriously imagine someone like him? Nobody felt real. They’re just caricatures. The dialogues were awkward, nobody talks like that either. And could anyone really picture what the Family Spirits looked like? These descriptions were terrible. 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.

Archibald is the Ambassador of the Citacielle and the owner of the Moonlight embassy. His favorite pastime ? Cheating on his male guests It reminded me a lot of The Selection, and The Red Queen series in certain ways, but I really disliked those series, I don't really like books that deal with competing for a man's love. I found The Mirror Visitor to be much more encouraging. She doesn't even want to be with the 'hero' of the book, and has so many other strengths going for her than the love of a man, and I think that is made perfectly clear. Psychic claws: After her marriage to Thorn, Ophélie gained the power to introduce illusions into people's nervous systems to cause them great pain or even to repel them violently; these illusions are called claws. She most often uses it unconsciously, as a result of anger. After their initial distrust of each other, Ophelia and Thorn are now passionately in love. But they must continue to keep their love hidden. And listen out for the mysterious echoes...Only then can they attempt to decipher a cryptic code and discover the truth behind the sinister figure of the Other, whose devastating power continues to bring down entire arks, plunging thousands of innocents into the void. I just loved this the second time around as well that I had to round my rating up! I just have so much love for Ophelia and Thorn ❤️A long time ago, the Old World is broken, destroyed by a mysterious catastrophe named "The Rupture". From it are only left floating celestial islands, referred as the Arks. Each Ark is governed by an ancestral Spirit, a powerful and immortal being who is the common ancestor of all the people born on that ark, and that transmitted to them a part of their power. Berenilde, hahahhahha, you won't know if she's you alley or your enemy! I did wonder at her incredible crush on their patriarch... It's a hard world that Thorn has lived in if this is his only ally... Sono felice che apparentemente la relazione tra Ophelia e il suo fidanzato non si basi su falsi sentimenti di amore (anche se lei più volte si sente in colpa per questo se non addirittura che vaneggia su un papabile innamoramento da parte di lui... follia!) ma, anzi, dichiara apertamente la sua mancanza di sentimenti. Anche solo il cliché di uomo fisicamente imponente, freddo e rude nei modi VS ragazza impacciata, goffa e minuta... This is the first book of a series... so it ends at a pivotal point, but it is clearly just the beginning. We've gotten the best start, a well thought out solid one, that will serve us well through the entire series... and the slow burn on this romance is so realistic and raw that I can't help rooting for Thorn and Ophelia even though he is more a real man with all the flaws than most book boyfriends. This is a world that I want to get even more deliciously complex and strange... And I want to see Ophelia continue to grow and come into her own as a woman of action!

I liked most of the book but not this: I would have liked for Ophelia to have a proper goodbye or spech with her uncle, aunt Rosaline and Berenilde, we never get to see more interaction between this characters, maybe ir ocurred behind the scenes but I would have liked to sew that, the same for Thorn, I would have liked a last “I love you” before dissapering, but anyway, it is what it is, a little more than that, even. ;)I don't know about you, but I get used to annoyances. I do not "get used" to people I love. REALLY GIRL. You want to solve every problem on your own,” she continued in a choked voice, “even if it means using people like chess pieces, even if it means making yourself hated by the whole world.” 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.

The Mirror Visitor, also know as The Mirror Visitor Quartet, is a French series of four fantasy novels written by Christelle Dabos. The Mirror Visitor is Dabos' first published series, starting with A Winter’s Promise: Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet as her first published novel. Ophelia is a hero for the ages, and I hope this series becomes the next big one that grabs the imaginations of young adults and adults alike.”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. All the characters are caricatural and this is a shame because the world had potential, but the characters (and the fact that NOTHING HAPPENS) completely spoiled my read. 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 : Victoria and the other side: Going into something that maybe was left hanging and that I think connects with my theory is the fact that Victoria was able to get to the wrong side. At first I just thought it had something to do with the ability to get her soul out of her body, which may be true but the weird thing is that we never get the explanation if this is something that Faraouk can do and comes out of the family spirit powers or is something new, on the other hand if she were to be an echo of the true Victoria she wouldn’t be able to “see” the world clearly plus the fact that when she left her real body it seemed it was dying or it was hardly thinking or even doing the basics as eating, so I do think that that Victoria should be her soul so if she leaves her body for too long she could die, the misterious thing is that nevertheless the was able to visit the wrong side, why and how? This then leads me to my conspiracy, I think this could be the key answer of how Ophelia will find Thorn or how Thorn will leave the Wrong side, I think Victoria could be the answer. Ophelia lives on Anima, the Ark where objects have a soul, and possess, like most of its habitants, particular powers. Ophelia has two special gifts: an unrivaled talent for reading the past of objects, and the ability to travel through mirrors. Very talented in her reading power, she works in her grand-uncle's museum, a place that accumulates objects from the Old World, and lives a very peaceful life surrounded by her family.