Christelle Dabos

Amazon Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of 2018 One of Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best YA Books of 2018 One of Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of the Year A National Indie Bestseller 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. 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. Ophelia 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, 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. The World of the Arks Long ago, following a cataclysm called the Rupture, the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands, now known as arks. Over each, the spirit of an omnipotent and immortal ancestor abides. The inhabitants of these arks each possess a unique power. Ophelia, with her ability to read the pasts of objects, must navigate this fantastic, disjointed, perilous world using her trademark tenacity and quiet strength. An unforgettable heroine, a rich and bountiful universe, intrigue and suspense: A Winter's Promise is perfect for readers of Margaret Rogerson's An Enchantment of Ravens, Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood, V.E. Schwab's "Shades of Magic" series, Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone, Kenneth Oppel's "Airborne" series, and N.K. Jemisin "Broken Earth" series. Extract: I think we could have all lived happily, in a way, God, me and the others, if it weren't for that accursed book. It disgusted me. I knew what bound me to it in the most sickening of ways, but the horror of that particular knowledge came later, much later. I didn't understand straight away, I was too ignorant.

Anima lakói szerint a tárgyaknak lelkük van, különös adottságaik révén pedig kommunikálni is tudnak velük. Ujjaik alatt összeforr minden, ami szakadt vagy törött, érintésük nyomán feltárul a tárgyak és használóik múltja is. Ophélie azonban nem csak ezért különleges: briliáns ügyességgel közlekedik a tükrökön keresztül. Békés hétköznapjainak azonban a Matrónák döntése vet véget: el kell hagynia otthonát, férjéül pedig a megmaradt világ legrosszabb hírű Sarkáról származó, gyűlölt és rettegett kincstárnokot, Thornt szánják. De vajon miért éppen őt? Új otthonában a Délibábosok trükkjeinek köszönhetően semmi sem az, aminek látszik. A lánynak az állandó káprázattal és a Sárkányokkal is meg kell küzdenie: a Légvár az a hely, ahol az ember a saját gondolataiban sem lelhet biztonságra. Ophélie ráébred, hogy a Légvár nemzetségei hatalmi harcának közepébe csöppent. Hogy megmeneküljön, álruhát ölt... Történet egy felejthetetlen hősnőről egy részletgazdag és izgalmas világban, tele cselszövéssel és meglepetéssel. Christelle Dabos trilógiájának első kötete számos irodalmi díjat nyert, és a legnagyobb francia kiadó, a Gallimard első könyveseknek járó elismerését is magáénak tudhatja.

Anima lakói szerint a tárgyaknak lelkük van, különös adottságaik révén pedig kommunikálni is tudnak velük. Ujjaik alatt összeforr minden, ami szakadt vagy törött, érintésük nyomán feltárul a tárgyak és használóik múltja is. Ophélie azonban nem csak ezért különleges: briliáns ügyességgel közlekedik a tükrökön keresztül. Békés hétköznapjainak azonban a Matrónák döntése vet véget: el kell hagynia otthonát, férjéül pedig a megmaradt világ legrosszabb hírű Sarkáról származó, gyűlölt és rettegett kincstárnokot, Thornt szánják. De vajon miért éppen őt? Új otthonában a Délibábosok trükkjeinek köszönhetően semmi sem az, aminek látszik. A lánynak az állandó káprázattal és a Sárkányokkal is meg kell küzdenie: a Légvár az a hely, ahol az ember a saját gondolataiban sem lelhet biztonságra. Ophélie ráébred, hogy a Légvár nemzetségei hatalmi harcának közepébe csöppent. Hogy megmeneküljön, álruhát ölt... Történet egy felejthetetlen hősnőről egy részletgazdag és izgalmas világban, tele cselszövéssel és meglepetéssel. Christelle Dabos trilógiájának első kötete számos irodalmi díjat nyert, és a legnagyobb francia kiadó, a Gallimard első könyveseknek járó elismerését is magáénak tudhatja.

When our heroine Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. Now that her powers?and the threat they present to the secretive denizens of this new world?are known to all, she is forced to reveal the nefarious plots that have been brewing beneath the golden rafters of Citaceleste and to throw herself into the political machinations of the Pole. In this perilous situation, the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic fiancé. As one after another influential courtier vanishes in suspicious circumstances, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond Pole’s many illusions to the heart of the formidable truth.

Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit. 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. Ophelia 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, 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.

In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants' growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia's talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

In the closing volume of her thrilling saga, Christelle Dabos transports us back to her wonderful fantasy world. Readers will be gripped by the all too human trials and tribulations of the protagonists. Ophelia and Thorn brave a complex universe fraught with allegories, in their quest to uncover the truth. As the walls of mistrust that stood between them lay in ruins, Ophelia and Thorn fall in love. However, they must keep their love a secret and continue their investigation into God's code and the mysterious figure called the Other, and its devastating powers of destruction. But how will they find it, without even knowing what it looks like? More united than ever Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory. Here, behind an apparently benign facade, is a laboratory where terrifying, cruel experiments are conducted. Will the lovers discover the truth they've been searching for, and will they be able to bring balance back to the world of the Arcs?