Ophelia was sent back to Anima, but when Archibald comes to rescue her as he looks for LandmArk she decides to go to Babel to investigate - and try to stop - God. La Mémoire de Babel is set 3 years after Thorn goes missing. I liked the kind of minimalism of a Winter's Promise and a central kind of point, but with the yellow colour and the dark lines parts of this cover didn't feel as clean as the first.
#TOME 3 LA PASSE MIROIR SERIES#
Again, I would really recommend reading these first two because they are absolutely amazing, it's really just a shame that the series goes down hill after this.Ĭover Rating: 3.5/5 I think what irked me about this cover is the amount of dark lines compared to the nice blank spots on the first cover. It was the ending that really got to me and made me love this book. It was exactly the kind of angst I adore in books, Thorn was finally starting to open up and while Ophelia wasn't really reciprocating (which Thorn never holds against her and just accepts - what a gentleman) it was obvious they still cared for each other and to just rip my heart out like that OH GOD. The ending with Thorn saving her at the last minute, only to be punished by the clans and risk mutilation, Ophelia coming to help and them encountering God, and Thorn suggesting suicide to save himself from the fate of his mother - I HAD FEELINGS. The mystery, which plays in so well to Ophelia's reading ability which I always enjoyed seeing her use, and was overall just an amazing continuation of the Mirror Visitor quartet. While the first one is relatively low stakes political intrigue, and it does get off to a little bit of a shaky start for me (I wasn't the biggest fan of the Farouk's storyteller plotline) I ended up loving this one so much. Next is Les Disparus du Clairdelune, the best book in the series hands down. It's definitely an amazing start to a series and a book that, while it may not necessarily be worth reading the last one or two (we'll get to that later) is really enjoyable as a standalone (or even as a duology with Les Disparus du Clairdelune).Ĭover Rating (I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but these are just so beautiful): 5/5 Overall, while a relatively slow paced book I really enjoyed the ability to just sit back and immerse myself in this world and these characters.
My hope going into this book was that Ophelia and Thorn wouldn't go from hating each other to loving each other in the one book and I was really glad to see their relationship slowly progress rather than watching them shove their tongues down each others' throats 2 seconds after despising the other. He is controlling of her movement to some extent for her safety, but when she inevitably runs off to explore Thorn is more worried that she is hurt, rather than angry that he as disobeyed him. They have both been forced into this marriage, and while Thorn is in more of a position of power, he doesn't hurt her. What I love about this particular use of the arranged marriage trope is that Ophelia, while being forced to marry Thorn, is never forced to be intimate with him in any way.
She is to be married to Thorn, a giant, cold, and seemingly calculating man from a nearby ark: The Pole. The series starts with A Winter's Promise that introduces us to Ophelia, an animist and mirror visitor from Anima, one of the many arks of the world that have split since the Rupture.
It's for this reason that I found the end of the series to be disappointing and missing much of what drew me in. Dabos has come up with such a unique world and manages to explain the intricacies without dumping all of the information on you at once in such an elegant way that I can't help but feel attached to this world (or what remains of it) and the people. With a magic system that is brimming with life and excitement, political intrigue, and characters that are given time to develop it's certainly different to many of the fantasy series around today. The Mirror Visitor quartet feels like the first real fantasy I have read in a long time. This won't spoil much of the first two books, but a lot of the last two. This is a review of the whole series, book by book, with references to major plot-points. I read all of these books individually - this is just an easy way to review the series as a whole so this is in no way a comment about this particular edition.
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