Name: The Memory of Babel
Rating: 4.200431034482759 (116 reviews)
ISBN: 9781787702530

Christelle Dabos

Hildegarde Serle

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.

The Memory of Babel

Nel terzo intenso volume della saga Christelle Dabos ci fa esplorare la meravigliosa città di Babel. Nel cuore di Ofelia vive un segreto inafferrabile, chiave del passato e, nello stesso tempo, chiave di un futuro incerto. Dopo due anni e sette mesi passati a mordere il freno su Anima, la sua arca, per Ofelia è finalmente arrivato il momento di agire, sfruttare quanto ha scoperto nel Libro di Faruk e saputo dai frammenti di informazioni divulgate da Dio. Con una falsa identità si reca su Babel, arca cosmopolita e gioiello di modernità. Basterà il suo talento di lettrice a sventare le trappole di avversari sempre più temibili? Ha ancora una minima possibilità di ritrovare le tracce di Thorn?

La memoria di Babel. L'Attraversaspecchi - 3

Melissa Cometto

Al momento è il mio libro preferito della saga, a mani basse. Sto leggendo il quarto e potrei cambiare idea, ma per il momento ne dubito. Nuova ambientazione. Andiamo alla scoperta di Babel e alla ricerca di Thorn. Ophelia questa volta sarà davvero sola, non ci saranno zia Roseline, Berenilde, Archibald o chicchessia a darle una mano, dovrà arrangiarsi da sola e cercare di capire di chi può e di chi non può fidarsi, cosa che ovviamente non sarà facile, perchè non sarebbe un volume de L’Attraversaspecchi senza complotti, colpi di scena ed intrighi! Se nel volume precedente ci eravamo fatti un’idea chiara di come stessero andando le cose, qui la situazione torna a complicarsi; per quanto si possa iniziare a farsi una minima idea del quadro generale, di chi sia il nemico e di come fare per rintracciarlo ed eliminarlo, non si ha un quadro completo della situazione, il che ci porta alla fne del libro con la voglia matta di prendere subito in mano il quarto volume. La Dabos anche in questo libro non si è risparmiata nel fornire un sacco di materiale per la fantasia del lettore per quanto riguarda le descrizioni: Babel è fantastica, con i suoi pro e i suoi contro, ma credo di aver percorso con Ophelia ogni via, ogni strada, ogni stanza del memoriale, tanto sono precise le descrizioni. L’ho divorato e ho amato ogni pagina

In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos’s best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the inhabitants’ growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will Ophelia’s talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again?

Joan 

The Mirror Visitor Book 3

nany

okay this frustrates me many times but it feels so wrong to give it 3 stars sooo 4 stars for ophelie and thorn

not as engaging as the first 2 books, but i attribute that less to the writing and more to change in setting/shift to characters who were not as familiar and considerably weaker. the god main plot is…interesting and there’s a lot of deus ex machina stuff doing on but i’m still enjoying myself!

rin 🐇

I didn’t enjoy this as much as the previous book, however I think it’s just because I wanted a happy ending and we’re still in the middle of a story, lol. A good read, I loved almost all of the new characters and I’m excited to read the next book!

Shai

"The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as Harry Potter."--Elle In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Farouk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe. Will her talent as a reader suffice to avoid being lured into a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever see Thorn, her betrothed, again? "Ophelia is...the tiny-voiced powerhouse you can't take your eyes off."--The New York Times

Book Three of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

This series is seriouslyyyyyy addicting. Genuinely so much world building (and the romance subplot is amazing). I SCREAMED when she said I love you back! Love the character building between Ophelia and Thorn, truly. Would've been 5 stars but the parts leading up to finding Thorn were a tad slow. Can't wait to read the last book!

(Bre)anne✨

TW to be added later

This series is seriouslyyyyyy addicting. Genuinely so much world building (and the romance subplot is amazing). I SCREAMED when she said I love you back! Love the character building between Ophelia and Thorn, truly. Would've been 5 stars but the parts leading up to finding Thorn were a tad slow. Can't wait to read the last book!

La memoria di Babel. L'Attraversaspecchi

Annabella

Che caspio di ultima pagina è? MENOMALE CHE IL QUARTO LIBRO E' USCITO

This is my favorite book in the series so far. I love how Dabos is able to recreate entire worlds but keep in in the same story. I also feel like Ophelia had the best character development in this book. At the beginning, she is kind of whiny and self-rightous, but by the end she is so confident and strong. Also, FUCKING FINALLY with her and Thorn. I can't wait for more scenes between the two of them (there better be some good romance at some point!)

Jenna Thornton

Sara

(2.5) I'm not going to lie, I was really disappointed by this book. I absolutely LOVED the world of the first two books (I gave both 5 stars!!!) so I was super excited to jump back into this story. However, that is not what we got in this book. I understand Dabos wanting to expand her world since it's so unique but the tone of the world in this book felt completely different from the previous two, so much so that I felt this could have been a completely different series. It felt more like Erudite from Divergent than anything relating to the Arks in the previous books. I love world expansion but it still has to feel consistent with the world we already know. This did not. The story also definitely felt more like a sci-fi than a whimsical dark fantasy which definitely took away a lot of my enjoyment. The story was kind of bland and the plot twists at the end were reallyyyyyy pushing my suspension of disbelief. I loved getting to see Victoria but most of the rest of this book just felt... kind of stale. I saw a lot of the plot twists coming and the foreshadowing felt too obvious, which is disappointing because I thought the twists in the first two books were fantastic. I'm really hoping the fourth book makes up for this one because I love this world so much and I would hate to end the series feeling let down.

Carlota :)

WOW questa saga sta superando ogni mia aspettativa. Ofelia è sola, non ha più nessuno accanto a lei, e deve fare tutto da sola e di testa sua. Il suo cambiamento fino ad adesso mi è piaciuto tantissimo e ho amato come il suo carattere si stia sviluppando. Anche lo sviluppo del personaggio di Thorn mi è piaciuto molto, ma non entro nei particolari per non spoilerare questo meraviglioso libro.
Grazie Christelle per questa saga, ma ho tanta paura del libro finale. Spero che i personaggi non cadano in scelte banali, ma per quello che ho letto fino ad ora non ci sono rischi che lo facciano. 

Per ora il mio preferito dei 4, vedremo se il quarto saprà superarlo!

Sophie

Okay, but this was much more different than the other two.
OMG I loved it sooo much. I'm still speachless.

I started and read for 6 hours just to find out where is Thorn hiding, and then, when Ophelia found him, I couldn't help myself, but laughing so loud, my family gatherd in my room, just to find me in my bed laughing at a book. 

We had the opportunity to roam a new city, in a different Ark, and to meet new family spirits. My favourite place so far is Babel, even though that is the worst place one can live. 
Ophelia can still suprise me with her ingenuity and her strong will to live. She has a strong heart and willpower, and I admire her for that. 
It's starting to become more like a mystery mixed with fantasy, and even if I said at the begining that this series is similar to Dowton Abbey, now it's more like some Agatha Christi mixed with 1984. Every book in this series is different and I can't wait to read the last one.

Grace Elizabeth

This book is currently one of my least favorites of this series. It's not that I hated it, I just didn't love it or find myself super involved or just having to know what happens next. It kept my attention enough to finish it, just not enough to devour it. 
This book follows Ophelia and her journey to the ark of Babel where she continues to search for her missing husband Thorn. She soon is wrapped in a world of mystery, intrigue, mysterious murders, and more questions than answers. She has to navigate a world dedicated to eliminating all violence and all words, actions, and beliefs associated with it, while also trying to find out who is on a murdering spree before she is picked off. 
Once again, this book wasn't super interesting to me. I like Ophelia as a character. I like her quirks, her clumsiness, and her fierce determination, but she doesn't strike me as the sort of person I can imagine in real life. She feels kind of like a doll being manipulated by the author, rather than a character in her own right. But I do like Thorn. Yes, his strange characteristics, as well as his doll-like behavior and lack of emotion, can be quite irritating, but he kind of reminds me of a very pale version of Kaz Brekker and once I think of him like that, I like him a lot better. The plot of the book also wasn't awesome. It kind of fell flat and I wasn't drawn into it like I was in the first and second books. It felt pretty slow at times, although I definitely wanted to finish it cause I did want to see what happened. I did like the addition of certain side characters and I hope we get to see more of them in the next book (Blaise, Octavio, Elizabeth, and Professor Wolf). Overall, this wasn't my favorite book, but I also feel like if I read it again I will enjoy it a lot more. 

The third instalemnt in the internationally bestselling series which has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide. Book 1 in the series was named the #1 Sci-Fi/Fantasy title of the year by the editors of the Amazon Book Review.

The Mirror Visitor, Book Three

Jordan Carr

Just as amazing as the second. I could barely put it down and now I’m really behind on work for my classes but it’s totally worth it. The deeper that I delve into Ophelia’s story, the more of it that I NEED. I can’t wait to see what happens in the fourth. Truly fantastic, I loved everything about this installment and honestly I love everything about this whole series

iachille

È un diesel quindi parte bene dopo un po' (tanto)

Valentina Gagliardone

** spoiler alert **
           Okay, questo è già migliore degli altri due, anche se il secondo mi ha davvero colpito per il rapporto con Faruk. 
Questo, per lo meno, inizia a delineare qual è davvero il punto finale e la trama del libro.

Moray Lyle McIntosh

I love so many aspects of this series that it's quite frustrating that they can be hit or miss for me. I enjoyed the first well enough and then loved the second one. This one left me ambivalent again. After all the progress made in the character arcs and relationships of The Missing of Calirdelune, the Memory of Babel felt like a step backwards. Ophelia is cast out on her own after the gripping denouement of book two and spends much of her time floundering to distinguish friends from foes on a new arc and it feels rather a slog as it revisits a lot of the themes of a Winter's Promise, but with fewer interesting side characters to lift the story. After book 2 enticingly developed the storyline of the House Spirits and God, all the hard work is squandered by the slow pace and repetitive story. Hopefully the final installment will see a return to the potential of book 2.

Lina <3

Really loved this book, once again it was amazing.
I loved discovering a new part of this world, even though one of the biggest flaws of this book, is the fact that I missed the secondary characters and the pole so much (Archibald especially lol). But I liked a lot of the new ones. 
I just couldn't put this book down, the author slowly shows the big story behind everything. I loved how strong Ophelia was, she's such a good main character.
Once again the world building was amazing and loved every part of. If only there were more books exploring all the arches. 
This book and the second are my favorite in this saga :D
(Minor spoiler) I really shipped Ophelia with Octavio. Oops

Nynke Elise

I am having so much feelings regarding this book, omg. Once again Dabos' writing blew me away and once again I really want that scarf! 
Can't wait until the next book is translated, this series is more than amazing

The Memory of Babel

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