The Storm of Echoes Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

THEY DESERVED A HAPPY ENDING TOGETHER!!!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S THE END OF THE BOOK AND THE END OF THE SERIES?? that doesn't feel right, i feel lost

but why???

and there it is. the end of a gorgeous 4-book tale. the culmination of all the worldbuilding into the ending was…confusing at points, but still narratively satisfying. i will miss this rich, wonderful world and every person that made it come alive when i needed it. thank you, la passe mirroir (a little more than that, even)

** spoiler alert ** I adored the first two books in the series and then I don't know what happened. It's almost as if it was a completely different story with different characters. Don't get me started on the whole echo-convoluted-confusing-ark-world-thingy. We flipped sides so often I got confused and didn't care much anymore. Ophelia and Thorn were also very different in this last installment. Not at all consistent with their previous characterization. All together a disappointment 😔 I'll still cherish the first two books, but my personal expectations weren't met with how the storyline concluded.

I still feel like I’m processing how this ended. I can genuinely say I didn’t expect the twist of the end, and I can also genuinely say that I’m not sure if I enjoyed or hated the ending. I imagine a happy ending. :/

This is the most genius book series I have read in my life. What a rollercoaster.

The book kinda fell off there at the end. Overall The series is a 4 for me. The first two books are very different to the following two, it really feels like two different series at times. The final book felt rushed and there seemed to be some plot holes... or perhaps it's a translation issue. Either way, I really enjoyed reading this series even though it took me a year to finish :)

Honestly this book was so disappointing. Although this whole series is one I would like to read again someday and actually work a bit harder at understanding. The whole concept is really abstract and very hard to grasp, the characters to me seemed to lose themselves in search of answers, and the whole dynamic fell flat. It took me agessss to finish this book and I breathed a sigh of relief when it was over (its huge!!). This book really was a bit of a disappointment. However, I will want to give it another try, but for now it has put me into a reading slump.

Fairly disappointed in the ending, despite loving the series. It felt too long, convoluted, difficult to follow, and ultimately ended in a way that we lost everything I loved about the series and characters.

fantastische Fähigkeiten, charmante Charakter, wundersame Welten, Spannende Situationen, (view spoiler)[entäuschendes Ende (hide spoiler)]

I was worried about the final book after being disappointed with the third installment of the Mirror Visitor and unfortunately my fears were realised. The fourth book completed the shift away from the characters that made The Missing of Clair de Lune so much better than the others. Ophelia dominates and frankly she isn't a developed or interesting enough character to carry the focus of books three and four. Without the entertaining supporting characters like Archibald, Berenilde, Fox, Gail and Rosaline the story had far less depth. Instead of paying to their strengths, all are replaced in significance by characters from book three though they are much flatter. Much of they narrative is reduced to the stream of questions that Ophelia is constantly and irritatingly asking herself about what is happening and what it means. This seems to be Dabos's way of ensuring the READER is asking the right questions, because frankly the plot is a mess. I'm sure she had a very clear idea about what was happening with God, the Other, the echoes, the landslides, the Horn of Plenty etc. but the translation of that explanation to the page was tangled and confused and many of the details had no reference to the earlier books. All in all it was a muddled offering that left me with more questions than answers, and not in a good way. The sudden influx of metaphysics to the story, which definitely owes a debt to His Dark Materials, left pacing and characters floundering in abstraction. A disappointing conclusion to a series that showed real promise in book 2.

Christelle Dabos really knows how to get you to relate and attach yourself to her characters. The ending was not my favourite, however I understand why she did it the way she did. That being said it made me cry my eyes out. Totally recommend, especially for fans of slow-burns. It can go from comforting to heart-wrenching and back real fast.

** spoiler alert ** Almost an entire book I spent not understanding what in the hell was happening. And what a cliffhanger. And! What the frick happened to Cosmos? Is he alive? What about people that stayed at that ark they crashed on?

sadly DNF'ing this at 65% because I simply don't care what happens next. all of my favorite characters are gone and the story has become so abstract and extremely repetitive that I just can't focus on it. highly recommend only reading the first two books in the series

The whole story was so good, the answers so great But the ending... was heartbreaking. It made sense, it did. But dk if I can handle a re-read

What the hell was that ending? It wasn't even an ending. Not a sad ending, and deffinitely not a happy one. It was rather confusing, there were a lot science talk I personally didn't understand, but after all, I understood the main plot. (I'm really bad at science stuff) My girl, Ophelia had to suffer a looot. She was awfully determined and I look up at her because of that, even though she's fictional. I looove Thorn. He should've deserved better. I don't know how to feel after I finished this series. It was amazing, and detailed to every word. It was beautiful and magical, I was partically lost in the story. The ending was neutral for me. Let me explain: the main charachter, Ophelia both lost and was given. And the fact that she lost, what se had lost equalizes all the happy things that happend and were given to her. I'm sorry, this sounds really dumb but I don't want to contain any spoilers. It was an absolutely stunning work of art, and everyone should read this series once in their lifetime. I had a good time