Mr B's review

This French story is an epic of Pullman stature. Ophelia is an archivist; she can read the history of an object through her hands and walk through mirrors. But when she finds herself pledged to icy Thorn, she has no choice. How will a stubborn, headstrong young woman survive on an ark so different from her own, so bound by strange magic and high society? Well, by disobeying mostly.