A Winter's Promise

By: Christelle Dabos

Narrated by: Emma Fenney

Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima, and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan.

She must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, she slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.

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Critic reviews

“Dabos’s darkly enchanting debut, a French bestseller, employs vibrant characters, inventive worldbuilding, and a sophisticated plot that will dazzle readers.” (Publishers Weekly)

welllll

idk. interested enough to keep going but feeling a bit like it's a job. we shall see with the next one

nice!

I like the writing and story a lot, and the reader did a good job with the emotion and voices. I wish she had chosen a different accent for the people from the Pole though; a posh English accent doesn't match the description of "harsh accent" from the book. I thinks Russian or Norwegian accent would have fit much better.
I will for sure listen to the next book!

Couldn't stop listening

Loved it, the magic world is original and the narrator was amazing. The main characters aren't your usual heros that you have to like, but you actually learn to care for.

Good slow character driven story

It’s slow and simmering as it’s the beginning of a series but the characters are fanciful and well developed. It takes you into another world and I like the FMC and even the MMC. The editing of the audiobook is terrible (they leave in outtakes) but that takes nothing away from the robust performance of the narrator. If not for her, the recording would be 2 stars.

intriguing story

a little slow to start but mostly due to fugur out the setting and character relationships. overall though very much enjoyed