The Box of Red Brocade (The Slanted Worlds)
Chronoptika (Obsidian Mirror) Series
Author: Catherine Fisher
Book 2 in the Chronoptika (Obsidian Mirror) series
Pages: 400
Published: 2013
Age: 11+
On a mission to recover his father lost in time, Jake finds himself in 1940s London. From the rubble of the Blitzed city, a clue leads him to an eccentric seer of ghosts, three sinister children and three strange prophesies. Two of them soon come to pass, but what is the Box of Red Brocade? Does it hold the secret of destroying the Obsidian Mirror?
If you had the chance to change the past, would you do it? Jake, Sarah, and Oberon Venn continue their fight for control of the Obsidian Mirror, and whoever wins will either save a life, change the past, or rescue the future.
But the Mirror has plans of its own.
Note: This book has also been published with the title: 'The Slanted Worlds'.
About the Chronoptika (Obsidian Mirror) Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Obsidian Mirror(2012)
- 2.The Box of Red Brocade (The Slanted Worlds)(2013)
- 3.The Door in the Moon(2015)
- 4.The Speed of Darkness(2016)
Reading age: 11+ years
This series should be read in order.
Time travel and the faery world collide in this intriguing fantasy series.
The mysterious and powerful obsidian mirror is a black mirror which forms a portal to both the past and the future. Strangers from the past and the future - a product of the mirror's power to twist time - begin collecting at Wintercombe Abbey estate. And all the while, a tribe of elemental beings surround the isolated estate; fey, cold, untrustworthy, and filled with hate for humans.
Time-travel provides the opportunity for adventure and the lure of the past and future, with all the irresistible paradoxes and problems such a story creates. Throw in elemental creatures such as faeries, and you have an edgy and fast-paced series that will keep the reader guessing.
Each book in the series explores themes of fate and time and whether we should change the past if we could—and what that might cost us.
And the Mirror? Well the Mirror is Time itself. The answer to every problem…and the real enemy.