The Mirror of Her Dreams

Volume I of Mordant's Need

By: Stephen R. Donaldson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

With The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Stephen R. Donaldson changed the face of fantasy fiction forever. In The Mirror of Her Dreams, the astonishing first novel in the two-volume Mordant’s Need series, Donaldson shows us a world of wondrous beauty and seductive illusion, where mirrors hold the deadliest of magics and nothing is what it seems.

The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life - until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land. Terisa is no champion. She wields neither magic nor power. And yet, much to her own surprise, when Geraden begs her to come back with him, she agrees.

Now, in a culture where women are little more than the playthings of powerful men, in a castle honeycombed with secret passages and clever traps, in a kingdom threatened from without and within by enemies able to appear and vanish out of thin air, Terisa must become more than the pale reflection of a person. For the way back to Earth is closed to her. And the enemies of Mordant will stop at nothing to see her dead.

©1986 Stephen R. Donaldson (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Awesome

The best fantasy series I’ve ever read. Can’t recommend it highly enough. Rich world building and intricate character and plot development; most of all a fun ride.

Slow start but well worth the Journey

it's a different type of fantasy but has all the growth and character development one could ever want. it was a great listen.

Fabulous

Great story to listen to on the way to work and read. This makes it come alive.

Interesting

Any additional comments?

The story is difficult to get into because it moves along so slowly. I'm still in the first half because I can't listen more than an hour before needing to listen to some other book with more action.

wonderful

love this book. could not stop listening to it. going to get next book. excited

loved the story & storyteller but not the HEROINE

I wanted to love everything because the storyteller was great however Theresa was a poor representative of women who drove me crazy with her lack of intelligence

Needs an up beat narrator

Not bad but over all dull and the monotone narrator didn't help. If I was active while listening I could focus on it but just to sit and listen it put me to sleep a few times. I don't see my self picking up the rest of the series.

New life for an old favorite

Read this a bunch of times as a young adult in the late 90s, and recently felt like picking it back up again to see how different it feels as a full on "grown up." I have been working a lot though and so can't devote the time I want to reading. When I saw that this audible existed (I don't know why I never thought to search for it before) I was excited to have a way to listen while driving, cleaning, etc., so that I could still revisit that world. When I checked the narrator's name, I knew I needed to give it a listen, as I have listened to several books read by him before.

Very neat to finally have voices to put to the characters, it made it much more emotional, and really brought it to life. It's also nice to hear some of the names said out loud, as I had been reading and imagining them wrong all this time! Lol

Storyline is on point

Loved it all! Epic story, loved the performance, great overall story and characters. I could listen over and over again.

I have a love hate relationship with this book.

I have read Donaldson’s Thomas Covenant books in the 1980’s. I like them enough to finish the series. I liked this one better in comparison. I got impatient with Terisa’s idiotic self loathing dialogue, her ease at seduction by Master Aramis was cringe worthy. I didn’t like her. Maybe it was the time of 1980’s Donaldson wrote the book, that the misogynistic attitude went on without consequences.
Then there was the narrator, Scott Brick. I’ve listened to many of his audible performances and I never can get used to his “ William Shatner” like over dramatic delivery. There’s little in between. I wanted to hear the story so I tolerate his raging, shaky voices all waaaay over the top. It masks the authors characters, making the decision for the characters and the listener in setting the tone in his overdramatized style. I’m sticking with this series though, and I’ve bought the second book. I’ll need a break from this narrator for a while.