The Girl with No Reflection

By Keshe Chow

Book Overview

A young princess is chosen as the crown prince's bride--but a dark secret waits for her just beyond the palace mirrors, in this lush fantasy debut perfect for fans of Song of Silver, Flame Like Night and Violet Made of Thorns.

A ROYAL WEDDING. A CENTURIES-OLD SECRET. A WORLD-SHATTERING LOVE.

Ying Yue has been chosen to marry the crown prince, but her life at the imperial palace is no fairy tale. Worse than her cold and mercurial husband-to-be are the many secrets her new family is keeping. And when, on the eve of her wedding, Ying unwittingly tears open a gateway, she discovers the biggest of them: a world of sentient reflections, hidden within the palace's mirrors.

The mirror world is full of marvels, including the enigmatic and charming Mirror Prince. But there is darkness, too. The two worlds have a long and bloody history, and Ying has a part to play in the future of them both. And the brides who came before Ying? By the time they discovered what their role was, it was already too late.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593707532
• ISBN13: 9780593707531
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

The mirror world was more interesting

The concept of this story with the mirror world and reflections with their own minds and dreams (some not quite so good, but you can't blame them because their curse is pretty darn awful). I was more interested in what Mirror Ying was up to though, and not quite so much the real Ying who was, how shall I put this? A caricature of a teenage girl. She only had the most extreme of emotions, from something like, "oh, the prince brushed my hand, now I am eternally in love with him and life is not worth living if he is not by my side, to I am in the pits of despair because I was betrayed, and then, oh. the other prince touched my hand, now I am eternally in love with him!". Though I liked that she did not feel her maids were not important enough to save/help. The roller coaster of emotions and the not thinking before running into bad situations really did put a drag on the story, and even the dragons could not save me from not liking Ying. But I did finish the book because I was interested in the mirror world and the people living in it. I think the story would have been more interesting with more history about them and the Crimson emperor, than Ying's trials to become the savior of the real world.