A Winter’s Promise

Strong characters like Ophelia have their charm for the audience. Such female characters convey the message that women can also perform heroic deeds and they can help the men folks in big missions. Ophelia has been given a big mission by the author Christelle Dabos in the middle of the story. In the beginning scenes, the listeners are told about her powers to read the past linked to different objects and her skill to travel from one mirror to the other.

Then we are informed about her marriage after which she is taken to the Pole. She didn’t want to marry at that time but once the bond is established she shows full commitment to her husband and the new land in which she lands. Here there is a different political game that is going on in the palace and the enemies can revolt against the king if nothing is done in time.

Ophelia thinks that she has to do something fast otherwise her stay at Pole would be short lived. Here she develops another skill i.e observing the political games which are being played very cleverly in the palace. One thing is for sure, the fate of the Pole is in the hands of Ophelia.

It was thought that no one could narrate a story equal in class to The Missing of Clairdelune and The Memory of Babel but Emma Fenney has proved those notions wrong at this stage. The narration is equal in level or we can say it is even better at many stages. The control of the narrator over the story was quite impressive to see.