A winter’s promise (The Mirror Visitor) – Christelle Dabos
Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides.
Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, the young girl hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fiancée to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn’t know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.
When Julian and Dick get some unexpected free time from school, the gang jump at the chance to spend half term together. However it is not long before an unfortunate injury separates the group, strange scary bells are heard ringing on a dark and rainy night and an unlucky mix up leads Dick and Anne to the wrong front door where a mysterious message and an indecipherable map turn their meticulously planned hiking holiday in to a full blown Famous Five adventure.
Elena
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