I'm super excited to be participating in the Blog Tour for Mirror Bound by Monica Sanz thanks to YA Bound Book Tours! Mirror Bound is the sequel to Monica Sanz's debut novel The Seventh Born which was one of my favourite novels of last year and is as easily as good as its predecessor!
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Seraphina Dovetail is used to being called all these things. As the seventh-born daughter to a witch, and the cause of her mother losing both her powers and her life, Sera has always felt isolated. Until Nikolai Barrington.
The young professor not only took an interest in Sera—he took her into his home, hired her for his moonlighting detective agency, and gave her the one thing she’d always dreamed of: a chance. Under Barrington’s tutelage, Sera can finally take the School of Continuing Magic entrance exam to become an inspector and find her family. Now if only she could stop her growing attraction to her maddening boss—which is about as easy as this fiery elementalist quitting setting things on fire.
But when ghosts start dragging Sera into possessions so deep she can barely escape, and then the souls of lost witches and wizards appear trapped in mirrors, these two opposites will have to work together to uncover a much deeper secret that could destroy the Witchling world…
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From Mirror Bound....
The outlines of ghosts appeared all around her. She cast Barrington a frantic gaze, but, consumed by his lecture, he didn’t notice her panic. But even if he did, he wouldn’t see thephantoms moments away from materializing, their presence lingering about the room like fog. Only seventhborns were burdened with the cursed second sight.
Go away, Sera thought to herself desperately. The dead had no say in the realm of the living. They had to listen to her. Yet a spirit emerged in a burst of mist, a girl with pale skin and dark circles under her eyes. Her gray dress and once-white apron were both drenched in dirt and blood.
Barrington gestured to something on the brush, and his hand moved near the protection dome.
The ghosts reached for Sera. Show you...
Cold fingers wrapped around Sera’s forearm, and she screamed. Wild flames shot to her fingertips in a manic gust, and savage flames roared from her wand, consuming the dome and Barrington’s hand.
He cursed and jerked back, clasping his burned hand in the other. The dome over their experiment vanished, and plumes of toxic smoke twisted into the air. Barrington gripped Sera’s wrist with his good hand and hurried them out into the hall. With awave of his arm, he forced the windows open, and the poisonous smoke was sucked out into the moors.
He gave her a once-over, as though to ascertain her well-being with a single look. “Are you all right?”
She nodded, though her pulse thundered within. Not only had she seen a ghost, but it had touched her...or at least she’d felt frigid fingers on her skin, a cold sensation that lingered painfully on her arm. But the dead existed on an entirely different plane; it was impossible for them to touch the living.
Had she been mistaken somehow? Perhaps, but she would have to think on it later.
Moving to Barrington’s side, she sought to inspect his injury, but it was already enveloped in a thin coating of his magic. Within moments, the burn lessened, until only a slight pink tinge remained. His sleeves, however, were charred.
“I’m fine. It was nothing,” he assured her, though the thin sheen of sweat over his brow told her it was anything but. “I must have miscalculated the amount of poison oak.”
Sera shifted back against the wall. She knew as well as he did that she’d been the reason for the accident. “I’m sorry—”
She winced and squeezed her eyes shut. The hallway felt as if it was spinning and swaying, and a headache throbbed with each pulse, the pain a constant scream drowning out all sound.
Barrington’s hands came upon her shoulders, and he brought her closer. “Ghosts?”
Sera nodded, unable to lie. Not here in his arms.
He weaved his hands into her hair. Their nearness wasdangerous, but the moment his musk of sandalwood filledher nose and his cold hands found the nape of her neck, sherested her head against his chest, lost to him.
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The outlines of ghosts appeared all around her. She cast Barrington a frantic gaze, but, consumed by his lecture, he didn’t notice her panic. But even if he did, he wouldn’t see thephantoms moments away from materializing, their presence lingering about the room like fog. Only seventhborns were burdened with the cursed second sight.
Go away, Sera thought to herself desperately. The dead had no say in the realm of the living. They had to listen to her. Yet a spirit emerged in a burst of mist, a girl with pale skin and dark circles under her eyes. Her gray dress and once-white apron were both drenched in dirt and blood.
Barrington gestured to something on the brush, and his hand moved near the protection dome.
The ghosts reached for Sera. Show you...
Cold fingers wrapped around Sera’s forearm, and she screamed. Wild flames shot to her fingertips in a manic gust, and savage flames roared from her wand, consuming the dome and Barrington’s hand.
He cursed and jerked back, clasping his burned hand in the other. The dome over their experiment vanished, and plumes of toxic smoke twisted into the air. Barrington gripped Sera’s wrist with his good hand and hurried them out into the hall. With awave of his arm, he forced the windows open, and the poisonous smoke was sucked out into the moors.
He gave her a once-over, as though to ascertain her well-being with a single look. “Are you all right?”
She nodded, though her pulse thundered within. Not only had she seen a ghost, but it had touched her...or at least she’d felt frigid fingers on her skin, a cold sensation that lingered painfully on her arm. But the dead existed on an entirely different plane; it was impossible for them to touch the living.
Had she been mistaken somehow? Perhaps, but she would have to think on it later.
Moving to Barrington’s side, she sought to inspect his injury, but it was already enveloped in a thin coating of his magic. Within moments, the burn lessened, until only a slight pink tinge remained. His sleeves, however, were charred.
“I’m fine. It was nothing,” he assured her, though the thin sheen of sweat over his brow told her it was anything but. “I must have miscalculated the amount of poison oak.”
Sera shifted back against the wall. She knew as well as he did that she’d been the reason for the accident. “I’m sorry—”
She winced and squeezed her eyes shut. The hallway felt as if it was spinning and swaying, and a headache throbbed with each pulse, the pain a constant scream drowning out all sound.
Barrington’s hands came upon her shoulders, and he brought her closer. “Ghosts?”
Sera nodded, unable to lie. Not here in his arms.
He weaved his hands into her hair. Their nearness wasdangerous, but the moment his musk of sandalwood filledher nose and his cold hands found the nape of her neck, sherested her head against his chest, lost to him.
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