It was thanks to their encouragement that she decided to take on her very first literary challenge: to enter the First Youth Novel Contest. The world is split into Arks, which float in the sky, each with completely different cultures, customs, politics, and powers. Dabos's darkly enchanting debut, a French bestseller, employs vibrant characters, inventive worldbuilding, and a sophisticated plot that will dazzle readers.

The series isn’t perfect and if you want something to read that’s simple I wouldn’t recommend these books. Also, she’s so annoying because she consistently made poor decisions and refused what her allies advised her to do. I absolutely loved reading about the scenery and what on earth she was going to get herself into next! A Winter's Promise is an elaborate hall of mirrors, a hallucinatory marriage of Pride and Prejudice and Game of Thrones.Le style d'écriture est maladroit, alternant une syntaxe simple avec un vocabulaire parfois désuet, le tout extrêmement juvénile. Criticism acknowledged, there is SO much that these books do well, so much that is so great about them.

Mi è risultato impossibile posare il libro, soprattutto nell'ultima metà, mentre nella prima ho letto molto più a rilento.

Although, to be honest, I found this book difficult to base recommendations on, since it’s quite unique. THEN, when she gets back, she never mentions to her teammates that she’s met Archibald, NOT ONCE, even though he is bound to recognize her for who she really is when they do infiltrate! La costruzione dei personaggi secondari è già stata ampiamente criticata da altri lettori; mi limiterò quindi a dire che ho trovato esasperante il fatto che tutti, ma proprio tutti trattino male Ofelia così che quest’ultima possa suscitare la pietà del lettore ricoprendo il ruolo di Cenerentola della situazione. The second book actually added onto the characters personalities and I literally fell in love with them. Christelle Dabos was born in 1980 on the French Riviera and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical puzzles.

Su Anima, tutte le donne sposate fanno le casalinghe e mettono al mondo nidiate di figli; sono costrette ad accettare matrimoni combinati fra consanguinei (che schifo) e ad evitare qualsiasi tipo di promiscuità sessuale. Soprattutto perchè non considera le opinioni di Ophelia, non l'ascolta mai veramente e non le dà gli strumenti per vincere la sua battaglia per la sopravvivenza. Les animistes, le Pole, tout était là pour nous entrainer dans une histoire fantastique, et le résultat me fait l'effet d'un pétard mouillé.

S'il y a quelque chose que je déteste, c'est quand on me force à apprécier une héroïne en essayant de me faire croire que sa "pureté" équivaut à ce qu'une femme se doit d'être. L’altro elemento che mi ha lasciata perplessa è la struttura della “società matriarcale” su cui dovrebbe essere basata Anima. Getting to watch her navigate her surroundings and environment, and exponentially evolve, was such a treat.

We get the sense right off that Thorn is not going to be a man who makes you swoon because he knows how to treat a woman. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. When against her wishes she is betrothed to a man on another Ark, Ophelia has to leave her secure and loving home and travel to a cold and desolate ark to marry him.A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos was originally published in 2013 in French but was more recently (in October 2018) translated by Hidegarde Serle and published in English. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Relatedly, I thought the world-building qualities of the Mirror Visitor to be of its most novel feats, of the most fresh and excitable items to offer readers. Ugh, I've never written so many sentences at one go on Goodreads because I'm lazy and probably not a good reviewer but I just love this so much and am so grateful it exists, I'm going to scream.