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    A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1
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    A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1

    Written by Christelle Dabos

    Narrated by Emma Fenney

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    About this audiobook

    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. She 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, she 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781974955138
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    A Winter's Promise: The Mirror Visitor Book 1
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    Christelle Dabos

    Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d’Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. A Winter’s Promise, her debut novel, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-Télérama First Novel Competition in France, and was named a Best Book of the Year by critics and publications in the US, including Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Publishers Weekly, and Chicago Review of Books. A Winter’s Promise was named the #1 Sci-Fi/Fantasy title of the year by the editors of the Amazon Book Review.

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    • 5/5
      LOVED this!! I cannot wait for part II.
    • 2/5
      Readable if predictable.
    • 5/5
      Very good.
    • 2/5
      everyone in this book was awful to each other.
    • 4/5
      Enjoyable. Well written. Definitely worth a listen. And there’s more.
    • 4/5
      It is very good but more an introduction than a whole book
    • 4/5
      Wonderfully creative world building and amazing tale of self discovery.
    • 5/5
      The character introductions made me think I wouldn't like the book but I love bed it, lots of action
    • 5/5
      THIS BOOK WAS GREAT!! DEFINITELY A RECOMMENDED READ TO ANYONE WHO ENJOYS YA FANTASY!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was absolutely extraordinary. I listened to it with the audiobook sometimes, then read some parts at night before bed. It was amazing both as a written text and as an audiobook. The narrator is absolutely perfect. I am so pleased there is a sequel. There is truly no book like this one.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A really different and well imagined fantasy with good world building and imaginative characters. I wouldn’t recommend it for children although it seems at first glance that it could be. There are references to things such as orgies which would not be appropriate for kids. Saying that though there is no actual descriptively inappropriate content, just reference and hints to. So referencing to have a world without wearwolves and witches but just as magical and intriguing. Brilliant. 5 star the whole way. Cant wait for the next.
    • 5/5
      Ophelia runs a small museum and possesses an unusually strong ability to “read” an object’s history with her hands. She’s never had any interest in marriage, but when the Doyennes, the matriarchal heads of her extended family, arrange a marriage for her with a powerful foreigner, she is forced to accept her fate. She is sent with him and a chaperone to his home, where political machinations and scandals are a way of life, and the backstabbing can be literal as well as figurative. Can Ophelia trust anyone in this place — including her enigmatic fiancé?With a delightfully labyrinthine plot and intricate world building, the nearly 500 pages of this book flew by for me. I’m a sucker for a good Beauty and the Beast-type story, and those elements are present here, though whether there will ever be romance for Ophelia and Thorn is still in question (Ophelia reads as asexual, at least so far, and it will be interesting to see where the author goes with that element of her character). It’s the first book in a projected quartet, so there are plenty of questions left unanswered at the end — we can only hope that the next volume arrives soon!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This has the least feel of a YA book of any with such billing that I've read lately. Well, except for the breakneck pacing, and the girl with something extra pulled from her safe surrounds and pummeled soundly into a different shape and well, there are so very many standard elements in this book which doesn't feel standard at all. Rather bracing actually.

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    • 5/5
      One of the best YA book I have read this year. Loved the bittersweet chemistry between the two protagonists and also loved the way the writer had kept a part of the real world in it. Very much recommended to read.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      This book feels as if the author had read Harry Potter, believed it was so popular because of the physical and psychological abuse the protagonist endured, and decided there needed to be more of that in her own story. The amount of mistreatment and unfairness heaped on the protagonist was absolutely ludicrous and hard to take seriously.

      I honestly disliked nearly all of the characters and had a hard time sympathising with anyone. Ophelia was a complete doormat and naive to boot. Her opinions are constantly overlooked, to the point where it infuriated me and I couldn't continue reading. Thorn was a surly and indifferent failure of a love interest who berates Ophelia for the smallest mistakes, while conveniently forgetting that he was the one who put her unprepared in all of these situations. Every single woman comes across as vapid, every single man as a rapist. Forgive me, but I would prefer to read a fantasy book with less gruelling misogyny. The rage I felt while reading this book is immeasurable.

      As for the plot, I can honestly say I don't believe there is any. The concept is lovely, but it goes nowhere. There is so much potential in having a protagonist who can read the history of objects and must be married off to a love interest, who is a powerful but sullen magic user. We are instead "treated" to court drama in the form of Ophelia being extorted, beaten and threatened by nearly half of the speaking characters.

      On top of that, I absolutely loathed the way it was read aloud. The narrator succeeded in making every single character sound incredibly whiny and drawling to the point it made my skin crawl. The main character sounded close pathetic and to tears throughout the whole story. Every time Thorn's aunt spoke I wanted to push a hot poker into my ear. The accents were problematic at best.
      Perhaps I would like this story better as a normal book instead of an audiobook, but I doubt it.
      I'm not sadistic enough to continue reading this series. I'd give it zero stars if I could.