Christelle Dabos

"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.

Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

The Storm of Echoes

Eils

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)

rin 🐇

Anyaconda

** 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. :/

Shai

I'm still sobbing over this book as I write this review. What a way to end a series! Now I know why some people say it's controversial. Dabos didn't leave any ends loose...except for the ending which RIPPED my heart out. Going to look at the Tumblr tag of Ophelia and Thorn now to mend my heart because I simply can't deal.

(Bre)anne✨

TW to be added later

I'm still sobbing over this book as I write this review. What a way to end a series! Now I know why some people say it's controversial. Dabos didn't leave any ends loose...except for the ending which RIPPED my heart out. Going to look at the Tumblr tag of Ophelia and Thorn now to mend my heart because I simply can't deal.

Daria Bramnik

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

This ending infuriated me to no end!!! It felt like I wasted a weeks of my life on this serious for such a shitty ending. Like she fucking LOSES HER FUCKING HANDS and then loses her man because SHE HAS NO FUCKING HANDS??? This storyline was so original and well written but leaving it on a cliff-hanger like that did a real disservice to the story and Ophelia's character development. 

Jenna Thornton

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 :)

Elle

Grace Elizabeth

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.

Alysia Spencer

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. 

Im Sturm der Echos

Esther

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

Moray Lyle McIntosh

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.

The dazzling finale of the international bestselling series: The Mirror Visitor In the closing volume of her thrilling saga, Christelle Dabos transports us back to her wonderful fantasy world. Readers will be gripped by the all too human trials and tribulations of the protagonists. Ophelia and Thorn brave a complex universe fraught with allegories, in their quest to uncover the truth. As the walls of mistrust that stood between them lay in ruins, Ophelia and Thorn fall in love. However, they must keep their love a secret and continue their investigation into God’s code and the mysterious figure called the Other, and its devastating powers of destruction. But how will they find it, without even knowing what it looks like? More united than ever Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory. Here, behind an apparently benign façade, is a laboratory where terrifying, cruel experiments are conducted. Will the lovers discover the truth they’ve been searching for, and will they be able to bring balance back to the world of the Arcs?

The Mirror Visitor Book 4

Mads

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.

Lina <3

I love the first three so much, but this one felt... Disappointing. I felt like the story became messy and all. But, I feel like the book could have been so so much better only if 
(SPOILER) 

If Thorn had his happy ending. We know that for a big part of his life, he was the one trying to fix the world. It doesn't feel like a sacrifice, it feels like... Idk, he was robbed. This ending just made me feel like I was robbed. I can't help but think "All of this, for that?".

Karina

** 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?

Wiktoria Balcerak

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

Cléa

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

Sophie

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


The Storm of Echoes Book Four of the Mirror Visitor Quartet

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