Loved itThis is written by Christelle Dabos, the same author who wrote A Winter's Promise, a YA fantasy series that I loved, very quirky, very interesting writing.
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A Winter’s Promise (2020)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Long ago, following a cataclysm called “The Rupture,” the world was shattered into many floating celestial islands. Known now as Arks, each has developed in distinct ways; each seems to possess its own unique relationship to time, such that nowadays vastly different worlds exist, together but apart. And over all of the Arks the spirit of an omnipotent ancestor abides. Ophelia lives on Anima, an ark where objects have souls. Beneath her worn scarf and thick glasses, the young girl hides the ability to read and communicate with the souls of objects, and the power to travel through mirrors. Her peaceful existence on the Ark of Anima is disrupted when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, from the powerful Dragon clan. Ophelia must leave her family and follow her fiancée to the floating capital on the distant Ark of the Pole. Why has she been chosen? Why must she hide her true identity? Though she doesn’t know it yet, she has become a pawn in a deadly plot.
- ISBN:
- 9781609456078
- Length:
- 492 pages
Genres: fantasy, romance, young adult
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Loved it
Loved iti love this series this is such a unique series in terms of why a i think this one really actually goes above and beyond a lot of why tropes