The Pomegranate Gate
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Two worlds bound by a pomegranate gate
Toba Peres can speak but she can’t shout; she can walk but she can’t run; and she can write in five languages… with both hands at the same time.
Naftaly Cresques dreams every night of an orange-eyed stranger; when awake, he sees things that aren’t real; and he carries a book he can never lose and never read.
When the Queen of Sefarad orders all the nation’s Jews to leave or convert, Toba and Naftaly are forced to flee, but an unlucky encounter leaves them both separated from their caravan. Lost in the wilderness, Toba follows an orange-eyed stranger through a mysterious gate in a pomegranate grove, leaving Naftaly behind.
With a single step, Toba enters an ancient world that mirrors her own. There, she finds that her fate—and Naftaly’s—are bound to an ancient conflict threatening to destroy both realms.
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YA author Kaplan (We Are the Perfect Girl) draws readers into a bewitching folkloric world in her enthralling adult debut and Mirror Realm Cycle series launch. After the Queen of Sefarad issues an edict expelling her kingdom's Jewish citizens, Naftaly Cresques, a tailor's son with the secret ability to travel the dream world, smuggles a treasured book and flees, while fragile but brilliant Toba Peres escapes with her grandparents and her childhood amulet. Wolves separate Toba from the group and she follows two strange men to safety through a gate into an alternate realm where the Maziks, or magic users, reside. Trapped until the next full moon, Toba must trust wise astrologer Asmel b' Asmoda and his charming nephew Barsilay b'Droer to protect her, both of whom are shocked to discover that Toba may have magical abilities of her own. Meanwhile, Naftaly aids Toba's grandmother by navigating the dream world to search for Toba before they're all discovered. The plot has a tendency to meander and then suddenly accelerate, creating some uneven pacing, but the worldbuilding is lush and exciting and the dynamics between the leads charm. (Toba and "popinjay" Barsilay have some especially choice banter.) This spells good things for the series to come.
