The Girl With No Reflection by Keshe Chow
A young woman chosen as the crown prince’s bride must
travel to the royal palace to meet her new husband—but
her world is shaken when she discovers the dark truth
the royal family has been hiding for centuries—in this
lush fantasy debut perfect for fans of Song of Silver,
Flame Like Night and Violet Made of Thorns.
Princess Ying Yue believed in love...once upon a time.
Yet when she’s chosen to wed the crown prince, Ying’s
dreams of a fairy tale marriage quickly fall apart. Her
husband-to-be is cold and indifferent, confining Ying to
her room for reasons he won’t explain. Worse still are the
rumors that swirl around the imperial whispers of seven
other royal brides who, after their own weddings,
mysteriously disappeared.
Left alone with only her own reflection for company, Ying
begins to see things. Strange things. Movements in the
corners of her mirror. Colorful lights upon its surface.
And when, on the eve of her wedding, she unwittingly tears
open a gateway, she is pulled into a mirror world.
This realm is full of sentient reflections, including the
enigmatic Mirror Prince. Unlike his real-world
counterpart, the Mirror Prince is kind and compassionate,
and before long Ying falls in love—the kind of love she
always dreamed of.
But there is darkness in this new world, too.
It turns out the two worlds have a long and blood-soaked
history, and Ying has a part to play in the future of them
both. And the brides who came before Ying? By the time
they discovered what their role was, it was already too
late.
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*I was provided with an ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest
review*
Keshe was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and migrated to Australia when
she was two years old. She currently lives in Naarm (Melbourne) with her
partner, two kids, and an ice cream-obsessed cat named Wasabi.
She won the 2020 Perito Prize, the 2021 Yarra Literature Prize, the 2021
Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary
Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, and the 2023 Uncharted
Magazine Thrilling Contest. Her debut novel THE GIRL WITH NO REFLECTION
will be out in 2024 with Delacorte Press (Penguin Random House).
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