#chronoptika

[dragoneyes618]

This was the past. The only past left. Captured by light, frozen in a rigid image. Gone. But if you could re-enter it; if you could go back to that place and be that person again, if you could live that moment again, better, without the stupid remarks, the arguments, the mistakes, wouldn't that be a thing worth taking all the risks in the world for?

- Obsidian Mirror, Catherine Fisher, page 185

[dragoneyes618]

Sarah takes Venn into the future to show him the consequences of bringing Leah back. He eventually decides not to, because of this. To ensure nobody will ever get the mirror which would lead to Sarah's nightmare future, Maskelyne goes into the mirror and takes it with him, wherever he would end up. Since Sarah will now never exist, she goes inside the mirror as well, along with Gideon, who wants to get away from the Shee once and for all. Jake finally gets his father back and they're both alive and safe in the present time. Rebecca thinks about following Maskelyne into the mirror but decides her place is here in her own time.

Can anyone who has finished reading Catherine Fisher's Obsidian Mirror series tell me what happened at the end of the last book, and the fates of all the characters?

I only have the second book, The Slanted Worlds, but I doubt I'll ever read the other books in the series. So I want spoilers.

[gjhslibrary]

Check Out this Author: Catherine Fisher

FANTASY CONTINUES TO be our top genre in our library. Catherine Fisher’s Chronoptika series entertains the minds of many of our readers in recent years. Fisher is from Whales and loves mythology and history. Her passion is displayed in her captivating stories. If you haven’t read a fantasy book you couldn’t put down recently these books will make time disappear while you emerge yourself into…

[itachi86]

A cage hung from [the ceiling], a cage made of shadows. They had been spun out like threads from the cracked plaster, a crooked chandelier of dark and dust, a mesh of tangled lines.

The Speed of Darkness

[jeffnewberrywriter]

Location is vital to a good ghost story, and ancient houses and abandoned barracks are standard tropes in a genre that has deep roots in English architecture; from Mr Lockwood’s bedroom in Wuthering Heights to the Dartmoor manor in Catherine Fisher’s Chronoptika series. As Andrew Michael Hurley, author of horror novel The Loney and, in Eight Ghosts, a story set in the dungeons of Carlisle Castle, says: “Buildings, like ghosts, are things that endure beyond the usual human span of life. They are the theatres in which the past may be replayed.”

[itachi86]

The dark glass was swollen, unrecognizable, the frame burst wide, all the silver letters shattered.The blackness at its heart seemed to have spilled out, as if it had melted and reformed, become molten in some vast lava flow that clogged the room, its surface not smooth now but pitted and faceted[.]

The Speed of Darkness

[itachi86]

[Maskelyne] dreamed of falling. Down and down and down, endlessly, through stars, galaxies, through dark seas and deep wells. Head first, hands reaching out, his whole body a silent scream. If he had wings they were broken. If he had come from some great height he had forgotten it. All he knew was the fall. And he would never land, because the universe was without end and infinity a bottomless abyss.

The Door in the Moon

[itachi86]

A dark man in a dark coat; [Maskelyne]'s scarred face made him half demon and half angel

The Door in the Moon

[itachi86]

Shadows. They were drifting, flickering over the walls and ceiling. Like the flicker of the faintest black-and-white film, people barely there, ripples of silhouettes.

The Slanted Worlds

[itachi86]

The mirror devours everything. Light, colour, time, matter. Everything.

The Speed of Darkness

[itachi86]

The Chronoptika series by Catherine Fisher