The Mirror Series: The Lost Brides Trilogy #2 Published by St. Martin's Publishing Group on November 19, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers / Supernatural, Fiction / Women
Pages: 448
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the hauntingly spectacular Lost Bride Trilogy with book two, The Mirror.
When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.Then one night the mirror appears and Sonya glides through this looking glass, into the past—and sees a bride murdered on her wedding day, the circle of gold torn from her finger. It is a scene that will play out again and again—a centuries-old curse that must be broken—and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking the curse.
Review:
The Lost Brides Trilogy is a ghost-filled tale about finding your place in the world and staking your claim in it no matter who haunts you. Sonya and Chole have lived in the Lost Brides Manor for a year, and a lot has happened. They learn more about Dobbs, who torments them, and the other ghosts living in the manor with them. I love the nice ghosts. They add a great quirk to this manor that Dobbs is always determined to keep. Sonya and Chloe are pursuing their dream jobs in their own perspective offices in the manor, and in true Nora Roberts, romance is brewing, and it is so sweet and perfect. I love reading the details about Chloe’s paintings, including the addition of a cat she houses, breaks with the dogs, and eventually takes on a boat ride. Sonya owns her strength, and that gets to shine when she goes up against her ex. The romance for her is so sweet, and the filling up of the manor with family and friends is the perfect hit back at Dobbs, who is determined to ruin Sonya’s joy. I am eager for book 3.
About Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, the youngest of five children. After a school career that included some time in Catholic school and the discipline of nuns, she married young and settled in Keedysville, Maryland.
She worked briefly as a legal secretary. “I could type fast but couldn’t spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever,” she says now. After her sons were born she stayed home and tried every craft that came along. A blizzard in February 1979 forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate.
Born into a family of readers, Nora had never known a time that she wasn’t reading or making up stories. During the now-famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981.
Nora met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Since that time, they’ve expanded their home, traveled the world and opened a bookstore together.
Through the years, Nora has always been surrounded by men. Not only was she the youngest in her family, but she was also the only girl. She has raised two sons. Having spent her life surrounded by men, Ms. Roberts has a fairly good view of the workings of the male mind, which is a constant delight to her readers. It was, she’s been quoted as saying, a choice between figuring men out or running away screaming.
Nora is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry. Recently The New Yorker called her “America’s favorite novelist.”
