Book 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Ophelia is a reader. She lives on the ark Anima, has Artemis as her family spirit and is a typical loner. In this world created by Dabos, the earth has ruptured and all life is now living on a series of floating land chunks called arks. There are 21 major arks (each with a family spirit, aka immortal family ancestor) and a few score minor arks. As a reader, Ophelia can see/know the history of any object she touches. Or more specifically, she can know the "life" of that object and see everyone who has touched it in its life. So she wears gloves. As a loner, she is not interested in marriage, but the ruling matchmakers on her ark have arranged for her to marry a man of status from the Pole ark. She goes, and finds a world she is not prepared for.
This is a fabulous world, and I find it interesting to think about how science fiction worlds vary from international authors (this is a French work translated to English). This story is not about colonization and military, but about court intrigue. It is about power and class and history. Maybe it is me succumbing to stereotype, but this seems very French.
4 stars (out of 4)
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