It makes for a rather treacherous world to maneuver through and its NOT terribly action oriented though there are plenty of backstabby events and horrid situations instead. She ends up running into a prince from the actual court THEY ARE TRYING TO INFILTRATE and she's thick enough to babble away valuable information. I cannot, for the life of me, recommend Les Fiancés de l'hiver and I would never put it in a teenager's hands. I could have done without her crazy interpretation of his actions, though, even if it made for a good laugh : this guy, who put her in harm way and did NOTHING to prevent her from being the naive and stupid girl she stays during the whole book, finally tells her that, I quote (well, I translate, lol), "he was starting to get used to her".

Fidanzati dell’inverno ha riscosso un grande successo in Italia e all’estero, è stato acclamato anche dai recensori più severi e la sua pubblicazione ha ricevuto un’accoglienza a dir poco entusiasta.A best seller in France, Dabos's debut novel evokes both the whimsy and the deep-seated sense of justice of the Harry Potter series. But I thought the second half of the book built some nice momentum that certainly sets up the next book to be interesting and different!

There are a couple of other things in which their function is lost on me; the ending of the series had a knack for negating the meaning of certain creative choices that could have amounted to more significant reverberations, or at least seemed like they were going to: the nature of Victoria (her power/ability, including so many chapters from her perspective), developing tension in Thorn's relationship to his aunt while having them separated (why do we never see them reunite for all that Thorn went through in his understanding of their relationship? If you want a heroine who is not gorgeous, scintillating and super talented then you need Ophelia, who has a couple gifts but with only rather limited uses.Dabos has managed the rarely seen triad of complex worldbuilding, nuanced character development, and enthralling plot, even making it look easy. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia 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. The characters in whom's stories we readers participate are even characters in their own universe, their lives consequences of someone else's tale.

Rien par contre ne justifie le fait qu'Ophélie se montre si passive tout au long de l'histoire, ni que toutes les femmes qu'elle côtoie - mis à part sa tante - soient présentées comme des garces (je cite) ou des frivoles sans aucun intérêt.Branching and societal recognition between the different sense-gifts, the startling insight (and power) offered by heightened sense!

Criticism acknowledged, there is SO much that these books do well, so much that is so great about them.Il suo unico scatto di orgoglio avviene nelle ultime cinquanta pagine, tramite una reazione rabbiosa fine a se stessa che non ha alcuna reale conseguenza all’interno della vicenda. Cela faisait si longtemps que j'attendais de mettre les mains sur ce livre que je ne peux m'empêcher d'être profondément déçue par ce que je viens de lire. What follows is a tale of political intrigue, manipulation and secrets as Ophelia finds that the truth is scarier than she first thought, and those around her find her stronger than she looks.