Leave it to Nora Roberts to produce a truly mesmerizing adventure shaped like a haunted manor. Yes, an adventure. With awesome discoveries, thrills, and chills, accompanied by an exquisite selection of music. Nora Roberts decided that her haunting characters needed body. Not the humankind, but spirit kind. One of them transmits her message to the living inhabitants of the bride’s manor with her song selection. Awesomely creative. Again this is Nora Roberts we are talking about here.
Sonya MacTavish inherited her uncle’s house, the lost bride’s manor. She never knew her uncle, in fact, she didn’t know she had one. Her father didn’t know he had a brother. All this is the basis of THE MIRROR. Just what the heck was going on in the Poole family for the last century or so? It turns out quite a lot. Trey Doyle, a lawyer, oversaw the will for Sonya’s uncle Collin Poole. That’s when he met Sonya. And candidly was instantly smitten. I know old-time word, but you will see it fits.
The stipulation is that Sonya stays in the manor for two years. For many decades, the Poole family had forsaken the manor. As Sonya gets to know Poole Manor and its many inhabitants she will realize why the family had basically closed it up and lived their lives elsewhere. As in any good spooky story, there is an evil spirit and Nora Roberts concocted a gem. The mirror is a conduit between the present and past, not to be handled lightly. Sonya and her band of friends and relatives will have to use all their resources to come out unscathed in this house that is holding onto many sad memories.
If you haven’t yet read INHERITANCE, book one in the series, my suggestion is that you should. It is excellent and introduces us to the world of lost brides. THE MIRROR is second in the Lost Brides Trilogy. Nora Roberts gives little hints into the background of THE MIRROR, but the series deserves to be read in its entirety from book one to the inevitable book number three. I can’t wait for the next installment in a story that has been absolutely riveting. The Lost Brides Trilogy is a testament to the talent of Nora Roberts whose eclectic variety of tales keeps her fans very entertained. As always the cast of characters will make you laugh, sigh, grit your teeth and move you to unbelievable sadness. Keep in mind the greater part of that cast is of the ghost variety. All are very well designed to capture your imagination and heart.
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.
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