La guerre de l'ombre (Shadow Wars)
Where we meet Mia and her telepathic lymbiote again.
Mia has become the Look-out of Doregon, the world that she has been painting ever since her childhood and where she has allowed entry to Josh, her friend the bookseller, and her brother Moone. But the discovery that Moone is not her real brother and the expression of his violence in trying to seduce her and take over power in Doregon forces her to defy a major rule: It is forbidden to fool around with time lines!
So Mia returns to the past; she breaks the temporal line of history and from then on events are rewritten ...
But Moone manages to steal the Secret and creates "his world" peopled with shadows that obey him - a world protected by the "chimeras" that close off dangerous worlds. Mia has no other choice but to go there herself...
During this time, Josh is organising resistance against the Shadow that is invading Doregon and threatening its worlds.
Carina Rozenfeld has invented an exceptional and complex world. A brilliant series crammed with poetry worthy of the very best fantasy novels. [...]
There are twists and suspense, fantasy worlds we travel through and an absolutely sensational unexpected ending - a real cliff-hanger. Let's have the sequel!
La voix du livre
A well-depicted world we get totally immersed in, as do the heroes in the story.
M.-A.P., La Revue des Livres pour Enfants
A nice stylistic exercise, where Carina Rozenfeld creates an extra time line in which events take place with numerous similarities but also many differences. [...]
As it is written in such a pleasant style, this book can be read really quickly. And the glimmers of hope appearing at the end of the story mean that you can wait calmly for the publication of the third and last volume of the trilogy!
Soleil, Les Chroniques de l'Imaginaire
What is so great here is that the author plays with her readers. Like the Mia of the interstices they know their past, and what has gone on before, and consequently they can experience the evolution of what happens next. Let's be clear, we are the playthings of a new creation, but oh so new, breathless and frustrating. Let me explain: reading about other possibilities, new lines of development, is great, it's fantastic and very pleasant but nothing gives any clue as to what will happen in the last book, groans the reader!
To be enjoyed in excess...
Céline Le Couëdic-Doffémont, Boojum
The action rushes along in this second volume; jumping from one revelation to the next, there is no chance to catch our breath. [...]
So La guerre de l'ombre is a very good sequel, it will certainly thrill all those who want to join in the adventure, from early teens to older age groups. We look forward to the third and last volume: les cracheurs de lumière, available in Spring 2012.
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