A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos || Translated by Hildegarde Serle || SPOILER-FREE Review [CC]

Forgot to mention, but I started reading this book as part of the Reading Women in Translation challenge!

The English translation of A Winter's Promise will be released on September 25th, 2018.

Content warnings: Description of suicide, description of child abuse/death, discussion/threats of "seducing/deflowering" of younger characters [consent unclear]

Synopsis:
"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. 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."

*As stated in the video, I received a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion.