Hmmm, how to explain, then ?
La Passe-miroir is a fantasy novel in four books.
Welcome to a world in which a catastrophe happened, splitting up the world in arches (territories like island floating in the sky). All of them are governed by a "spirit of the family", an immortal being with some special powers. After the catastrophe, these immortal beings have given birth to the new civilization by an alliance with the human's survivors. In arches, people are like a big family, with a "gift".
We're following Ophélie, who's a "liseuse" (She can "read" the objects, their pasts, by touching them) but also a "passe-miroir" (She can travel between too places by mirrors, but can't do that if the distance is too important). She's shy, clumsy, and prefer to live taking care of a little museum. Some day, after having refused several wedding's proposals, she learns that the Deans have decided to marry her to a stranger from an other arch, in a diplomatic alliance : this time, if she says no, she'll dishonor her family and will be banned. The said stranger, Thorn, is tall, cold, and at least as much happy as her. Following him because she has no choice, and staying half-hidden because her new position is dangerous, she discovers a complete different world at the capital, with clans fighting against each others, a new "spirit of the family" and some mysteries...
It's a "youth" book but French people put
The Golden Compass in young adult sections *Shrugs* The vocabulary is rich, the universe doesn't look like "common" books published these last years, and it's surprisingly addictive.
It's a success here, and would deserve a translation to English, to my mind
