The Mirror of Her Dreams: Volume I of Mordant's Need (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems.
The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life - until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees.
Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see her dead.
Customer Reviews
the mirror of her dreams
I have read and been enthralled by the book for many years (as with other works by Stephen Donaldson). The book (and sequel) deserves 5 stars. But in audiobooks, it is the reader who makes or breaks it.
Though I never enjoyed hearing Scott Brick reading, I thought maybe he has been able to overcome the vocal habits and habitual inflection of the past and, for the sake of an exquisite book, try Mr. Brick one more time. I‘m sorry to say that in my opinion, to my ears, it is a waste of time and money to purchase any audiobook read by Scott Brick. Good voice quality, but ... very annoying still. Has ruined many books for me, and when one of the masters retires or leaves a series, why ever and who decides to have Mr. Brick read beloved authors. Not so bad as part of a larger cast, but whole books!? Maybe I finally learned my lesson this time.