false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172446789m/177250.jpg 177250 11 <b><i>With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In </i>The Mirror of Her Dreams<i>, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant&#8217;s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems. . . .<br><br></i></b>The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life&#8212;until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees.<br><br>Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see her dead. 593724 1986 The Mirror of Her Dreams total:1333|5:416|4:467|3:343|2:86|1:21| 1333 5170 1692 67 4 1 true false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 08 08:04:26 -0700 2007 Sat May 26 20:02:25 -0700 2007 Edited: Dear Stephen R Donaldson-- Write shorter books!!
heh- This book happens to be part one of two. No part of the book actually mentions it, not the dust cover, nor the title page, nor any other decent location. You realize that this is a two booker series when you get to about thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 06:57:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 07:04:35 -0700 2009 5 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 14:13:02 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 14:13:02 -0800 2009 3 more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Mon May 18 19:46:48 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 16:39:31 -0700 2009 about 8 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 26 08:19:24 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:34:39 -0700 2009
First off, let me say that if you were at all turned off by Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, please do not overlook this book or the follow-up book to this one. I wish this ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 30 18:56:48 -0800 2007 Sat Oct 06 17:49:48 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 06 17:56:50 -0700 2007 A Man Rides Through) is inexplicably my exception. Each fall, I'm drawn to this series again, for a wintery escape into Mordant's intrigues.

It has a solid straight-...more...]]> 2 0 false true Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 19:35:38 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 19:46:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Oct 08 21:01:46 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 21:05:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 22 18:54:08 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 00:05:13 -0800 2008 much, much pickier than me when it comes to passing the good fantasy t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Fri Jul 31 12:53:45 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 12:55:12 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:41:20 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 12:21:23 -0700 2009 Just make sure you've got book 2 - A Man Rides Through on hand to start reading the minute this one is ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:56:59 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 16:00:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 09:33:51 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 14:37:59 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Aug 12 13:02:53 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:28:49 -0700 2009
This takes place in one castle (more or less). I loved the way the writer created a busy, crowded and brewing with tensity atmosphere in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jul 05 18:30:39 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 18:31:24 -0700 2007 The Mirror of Her Dreams enchantingly combines
epic "save the kingdom" fantasy with ruminations
on the nature of reality, honor and loyalty.
Terisa, a troubled young woman in "our" world
is brought by accidental magic to Mordant, a
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Poor Terisa even doubts her own reality. Living in this world surrounded by mirrors to remind herself that she still exists, she lives this life forgotten, ignored, and...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 12 21:07:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 21:07:46 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=177250