Historical Fiction
The Dark Mirror: Book One of the Bridei Chronicles
2007·513 pages
A noble youth fostered by a powerful druid rescues an abandoned fairy child and grows up with her amid ancient magic, rituals, and looming destiny.
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A noble youth fostered by a powerful druid rescues an abandoned fairy child and grows up with her amid ancient magic, rituals, and looming destiny.
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THE DARK MIRROR is the first book in Juliet Marillier's Bridei Chronicles. Bridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. His earliest memories are not of hearth and kin but of this dark stranger who while not unkind is mysterious in his ways. The tasks that he sets Bridei appear to have one goal--to make him a vessel for some distant purpose. What that purpose is Bridei cannot fathom but he trusts the man and is content to learn all he ...
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Sexual content
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Childhood companions grow into romantic attraction as Tuala reaches womanhood
Violence & gore
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Counsel to kill an abandoned infant; peril and danger referenced
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Religious content
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Powerful druid trains protagonist through rituals and spiritual purpose
Magic & witchcraft
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Druidic magic, Fair Folk, and ancient spells central to plot
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Political content
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Noble fosterling groomed for a significant political destiny
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Abandoned infant nearly killed; themes of isolation and peril
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