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A Winter's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1)

Christelle Dabos,

Hildegarde Serle (Translator)

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Apr 22, 2025 Melany rated it it was ok

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This book was really messy. I don't really know how I feel about it.

The world is fascinating. The fact that people live on these like floating arcs that like it's heavily implying the world we live on is like long forgotten because of some terrible thing we did. The people on these arcs are descendant of these god-like creatures and the powers everyone have from traveling through mirrors and being able to hurt people with your mind is amazing. The problem is all of the characters are insufferab This book was really messy. I don't really know how I feel about it.

The world is fascinating. The fact that people live on these like floating arcs that like it's heavily implying the world we live on is like long forgotten because of some terrible thing we did. The people on these arcs are descendant of these god-like creatures and the powers everyone have from traveling through mirrors and being able to hurt people with your mind is amazing. The problem is all of the characters are insufferable.

My biggest problem with this book is that it's unnecessarily cruel, and the main character is a pushover to 90% of the characters, that she has no agency and I can't even get mad the character herself because she keeps trying to advocate for herself but she quite literally has no power in this counrt that she ended up in. Which is extremely frustrating given that it's an arranged marriage, how can she have no power when they need her just as much as she needs them (arguably they need her more than she needs that, imo).

I can't get what the books were going for with the court intrigue and how terribly in vain people can be in court, but sometimes it just feels so unnecessarily cruel because she has no way of pushing back, and there are no consequences for people hurting her constantly. (view spoiler)

Despite how infuriating this book was I do want to continue the series I want to learn more about the world and I want to learn more about Thorne (view spoiler) ...more

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