Christelle Dabos crafts worlds born from imagination, drawing inspiration from classical music and historical puzzles. Her writing evolved from an escape from medical machinery into a second nature, where she explores intricate universes and characters. She has created a compelling series that transports readers on unforgettable journeys. Her distinctive style and ability to build vivid settings make her a remarkable storyteller.
When her gift for reading the history of objects becomes known to all and she becomes implicated in a series of disappearances, Ophelia turns to her enigmatic fiancé, Thorn, for help.
Ophelia must rely on all her skills as a reader to stay ahead of her adversaries while on the ark of Babel, desperately longing for her betrothed, Thorn.
When Ophelia, who can travel through mirrors, is betrothed to an influential member of a faraway clan, she journeys to the towering city of Citaceleste, where she realizes she has become a pawn in a dangerous political game.
Ophelia and her husband Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory and must solve one mystery before their world may return to harmonious coexistence.
"A hallucinatory marriage of Pride and Prejudice and A Game of Thrones."--Matthew Skelton, author of the Endymion Spring books In this gripping finale to Christelle Dabos's international best-selling Mirror Visitor saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, and Thorn discover that the truth they have been seeking has always been hidden behind the mirror. Christelle Dabos takes us on a journey to the heart of a great game to which the all-too-human affairs of her book's protagonists are ominously connected. The distrust between them has been overcome and now Ophelia and Thorn love each other passionately. However, they must keep their love hidden. Only in this way can they continue their journeys toward an understanding of the indecipherable code of God and the truth behind the mysterious figure of the Other, whose devastating power continues to bring down entire pieces of arks, plunging thousands of innocents into the void. Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the observatory of the Deviations, an institute shrouded in absolute secrecy and overseen by a sect of mystical scientists who secretly conduct terrifying experiments. There, Ophelia and Thorn hope to discover truths that will halt the destruction and death and bring the world back into balance.
The new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Mirror Visitor Quartet Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year.At Here, society is highly stratified, the pairs, friend groups, and outcasts are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year—as all other years—things are not at all as they seem. A self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air. A persecuted outsider delivers himself into permanent exile. A tyrannical upperclassman meets his match. A newly-minted prophetess tests her powers. And, behind the scenes, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into the unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all. Back to school season marks the start of a time-honored cycle of revolution and rebirth in which each must play their part. With Here, and Only Here , Christelle Dabos – author of the international sensation The Mirror Visitor Quartet – gives readers an intriguing and penetrating novel that explores the difficulties of fitting in and the private, individual choices that make up the sometimes abhorrent, always unpredictable Collective.
Ophelia has just been appointed a lady-in-waiting at Farouk's court, and she thinks she is finally safe. But soon the girl receives anonymous letters with threats: if she does not cancel her wedding to Thorne, disaster will befall her. And she is not the only one receiving such threatening letters. Farooq entrusts Ophelia with the investigation, and she must act at the limits of her abilities to save her life and the lives of those close to her, in a world where she trusts no one, not even her own. to the common man Thorn.
Fast drei Jahre hat Ophelia Thorn nicht mehr gesehen. Nach seinem plötzlichen Verschwinden musste sie den Pol verlassen und nach Anima zurückkehren. Doch eines Tages macht sie sich heimlich auf den Weg zur Arche Babel, um mehr über Gott herauszufinden und sich auf die Suche nach Thorn zu begeben. In Babel angekommen, einer Arche mit strikten Vorschriften und argwöhnischen Bewohnern, die Robotern mehr gleichen als Menschen, muss Ophelia sich als »Lehrling« am Konservatorium der Guten Familie beweisen. Als in dem Secretarium der Arche eine Zensorin tot aufgefunden wird, die kurz vor ihrem Tod die Werke eines Kinderbuchautors verbrannt hat, erkennt Ophelia fassungslos, wie sehr sie selbst in diese tödliche Geschichte verstrickt ist. Auf einer Arche, die aus tausend Inseln besteht und wo Menschen mechanisch absurden Gesetzen folgen, muss sich Ophelia allein durch ein immer bedrohlicheres Geflecht aus Lügen kämpfen – und kommt auf ihrer Suche nach Thorn der »letzten Wahrheit« riskant nah.
Am liebsten versteckt sie sich hinter ihrer dicken Brille und einem Schal, der ihr bis zu den Füßen reicht. Dabei ist Ophelia eine ganz besondere junge Frau: Sie kann Gegenstände lesen und durch Spiegel reisen. Auf der Arche Anima lebt sie inmitten ihrer riesigen Familie und kümmert sich hingebungsvoll um das Erbe der Ahnen. Bis ihr eines Tages Unheilvolles verkündet wird: Ophelia soll auf die eisige Arche des Pols ziehen und einen Adligen namens Thorn heiraten. Was hat es mit der Verlobung auf sich? Wer ist der Mann, dem sie von nun an folgen soll? Und warum wurde ausgerechnet sie, das zurückhaltende Mädchen mit der leisen Stimme, auserkoren? Ophelia ahnt nicht, welche tödlichen Intrigen sie auf ihrer Reise erwarten, und macht sich auf den Weg in ihr neues, blitzgefährliches Zuhause.
