I promise."īut Will shoved him away with such violence that Jacob staggered back, out of the shelter of the trees into the open expanse of the autumnal meadow. The bones cracked like rotten wood under his boots. "What have you done?"Ĭlara reached out to him, but Will flinched away from her, stumbling over one of the skeletons. "What's this? he said, faltering and looking at his brother. He dropped the rose and rubbed his forehead. One of its thorns pricked his finger, and Will looked in surprise at the pale amber blood oozing from his petrified skin. He picked the rose, and Clara heard the wood stem snap. And now, it's up to Jacob to save him, to save them all. But his brother, who has looked up to him as the father he doesn't even remember, his brother is Jacob's link to the world of his birth. Will is the reason that Jacob continually returns to the modern world.īut this time is different, it is not Jacob who has returned to Will, but Will who has traveled through the mirror, into a world where he doesn't know how to protect himself - a world where one moment, one mistake can be fatal close behind him, his girlfriend Clara follows. In the modern world of humans, his mother, sad and withdrawn since his father's disappearance, has little hold upon Jacob. But he is not invulnerable, even with the help and adoration of the shape-shifter, Fox, that protects him. In the Mirrorworld Jacob is a treasure hunter, and more comfortable in the primitive world of Fairies, Dwarves and Goyl than in his own. The gingerbread houses of witches who eat children, the thorns that put one into deathly sleep, the Lorelei who lure boaters to their deaths - these and worse can still be found. By the time we meet Jacob Reckless, he is to the Mirrorworld as Aragorn is to Middle Earth - a master of local lore, people, plants and magic, easily navigating the dangerous, primitive and magical world - a world where the more evil elements of our fairy tales still reside. We don't know the difficulties encountered by Jacob Reckless when he first entered the mysterious Mirrorworld from a portal in his father's study.
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