Obsidian Mirror
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Incarceron comes an “engrossing, enthralling” (New York Times) world where a powerful artifact holds the key to unimaginable worlds and untold power.
“Those who loved the genre-mixing fun of Colfer’s Artemis Fowl will find this to be right up their alley.”—BCCB, starred review
“Fans of Kady Cross, Cassandre Clare, and Doctor Who will be enthralled with this must-read title.”—VOYA, starred review
The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it.
Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed.
Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter it; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and restore his life. But only one can succeed . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this dramatic beginning to a new trilogy, the talented Fisher (Incarceron) again creates a plot that veers between science fiction and fantasy. The mirror of the title, a dangerous gateway to other time periods, is being pursued by not one but three equally unpleasant and obsessive mad scientists. One of them, Oberon Venn, is the master of spooky Winter-combe Abbey, as well as a famed mountaineer and archaeologist. Jake Wilde, Venn's teenage godson and his equal in arrogance, has been expelled from boarding school and shipped off to Winter-combe, where the boy plans to accuse Venn of having murdered Jake's father. Meanwhile, a trio of young women one from the Victorian past, one from the present, and one from a dystopianfuture have their own plots going, as do Jake's bluff English professor, a pair of enslaved changelings, a "Replicant" from the future, and Summer, queen of the Shee (fairies), who, conveniently enough, lives in the woods surrounding Wintercombe. Somewhat over the top emotionally, and perhaps a tad overly complex, Fisher's tale should nonetheless appeal to a wide audience. Ages 12 up.
