The Slanted Worlds
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The second installation of the genre-busting Obsidian Mirror series that is part Dr. Who, part Blade Runner, and part A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
“Decidedly—and wondrously—old school. Fisher deftly teases readers with cliff-hanging action, complex yet sympathetic characters with competing agendas, and villains that put a true chill in the reader’s spine.”—VOYA, starred review
“Engrossing, enthralling fiction.”—The New York Times
“Gorgeous, atmospheric, and addictive.”—Kirkus Reviews
One is sent to destroy it. Another needs it to save a life. The third, obsessed with its power, must protect it at all costs. With daring attempts at time travel and a dangerous trip to the faerie realm, Jake, Sarah, and Oberon Venn continue their fight for control of the obsidian mirror.
But the Mirror has plans of its own . . .
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.
