Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit, Christelle Dabos' The Mirror Visitor quartet. None of the characters felt particularly well-developed other than they're horrible and can't be trusted. Cast and Kristen Cast are back at it again with “Spells Trouble,” the first in a witchy YA series perfect for fans of “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

The constant reminders that Thorn is so large and Ophelia so small and childlike felt uncomfortable to read. There are a couple of other things in which their function is lost on me; the ending of the series had a knack for negating the meaning of certain creative choices that could have amounted to more significant reverberations, or at least seemed like they were going to: the nature of Victoria (her power/ability, including so many chapters from her perspective), developing tension in Thorn's relationship to his aunt while having them separated (why do we never see them reunite for all that Thorn went through in his understanding of their relationship? 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.Highly recommended to anyone who imagines reading something beautiful and clever and enchanting and magical. Very imaginative world and characters one cares about and wants to see through the arc of the story. Se esistono gli aerei da guerra, il telefono e le fotografie a colori, perché i personaggi hanno comportamenti tipici di una società più antica?

Over the gradual span of assimilating Ophelia's and Thorn's own process of piecing together their reality, there were some things that genuinely struck me. Rien par contre ne justifie le fait qu'Ophélie se montre si passive tout au long de l'histoire, ni que toutes les femmes qu'elle côtoie - mis à part sa tante - soient présentées comme des garces (je cite) ou des frivoles sans aucun intérêt. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Readers' passion for this series comes from the pleasure of walking up and down the world of the Arks, weightless floating islands that are ruled by family spirits and humans gifted with special powers.

I thought, going into this book, that it would be like Alice in Wonderland meets a Victorian, never-met-my-betrothed-but-we’re-getting-married-anyways story.

Recognizing souls in objects, animating the items that populate our environments -- especially through relationship, READING an object's past through the people that have owned it, mirror travelling!All this to say, no matter how flawed these books are (which I can definitely recognize that they are), what they did for me in this regard will always superimpose onto, and otherwise retain jurisdiction over, my thoughts and opinions. There, in the presence 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.

I come to appreciate Ophelia's godmother as much as she does, when she continually is outraged for her nieces sake! Most of all, where the story leaves us, more than being mad or upset by, I just simply don't understand from an authorial and creative standpoint. And in turn braved the world, no matter her positionality in relation to it -- any lack of power, authority, or knowledge never informed her interpersonal inclinations. She was able to stretch and push the capacities of her power-system for her characters to be able to achieve stellar feats while never exceeding her means.Dabos retained just enough clever ideation and conceptual play in her macrocosmic components to result in, for me, pressing analogy. scialba e insignificante, non si prende cura di se stessa (si veste male, non si pettina, ad un certo punto dice di non lavarsi da una settimana e la cosa non pare crearle disagio), è incapace di instaurare rapporti interpersonali (è cronicamente timida, non sa articolare le parole, nessuno la capisce perché mugugna mentre parla), non riesce a portare a termine nemmeno le attività più semplici perché inciampa quando cammina, rompe qualunque cosa tocchi, si strozza mentre mangia e cade tentando di sedersi. In termini di stile e ricchezza lessicale, questo romanzo è senza dubbio superiore alla media degli young adult contemporanei.