A Winter's Promise
Christelle Dabos
4/5
Ok the world-building in this book? Absolutely amazing. The main character? She's so weird and quirky in an unobtrusive way. Ophelia is a reader, when she picks up an object she can delve into its history and read the emotions of the people who have held it before her. She can also travel through mirrors, a fun little side trick. But more importantly, she's really awkward. She drops things because of a mirror mishap when she was younger, she has a scarf that has a literal life of its own, and her glasses change color with her mood. She is soft-spoken but strong-willed and she's basically everything you could ask for in a heroine.
In this book, she has rejected one too many arranged marriages and found herself forced into the position of a diplomatic arranged marriage with another clan. I'm a little confused on how marrying her cousin isn't incest since they're all descended from the same woman, but you know I guess there was a brief explanation. I love a good Forced Marriage Scenario, and a lot of things about this one are starting to check off the boxes. The only reason it lost a star is because they had so little interaction before she was sure that he was in love with her. The characters on their own are good but I don't know what was going on with that when they literally barely talked.
Again though, Ophelia is such an amazing protagonist and I can't wait to read more about her. I want so much more from her romance with Thorn too, they have the potential to be truly great I just need them to talk to each other more. A lot is obviously happening and the Pole is a lot more treacherous than her previous world, but she has the strength to make it through. I'm really so excited to see where it all goes though.
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