Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
BUT WITH DREAMS, THERE CAN ALSO BE NIGHTMARES... Lonely and plain-featured, Mona Parker is just another faceless teenager at Spring Hill High School when she angers a beautiful and arrogant classmate. Bullied relentlessly and with nowhere to turn, Mona's colorless life turns into a hellish existence. Mona considers suicide until one night, Thaddeus Finkle, her guardian angel, appears and offers her a way out;SWAP LIVES WITH ANOTHER: Mona takes the angel up on his offer. She awakes on Meredith, a parallel world of Earth where magic has replaced technology. Mona discovers she is Alexandria, a woman of stunning beauty, and the daughter of a Duke complete with servants and riches. Her wildest dreams have come true.Then she discovers the price of her bargain. Trapped behind the Veil, an impenetrable curtain of magic, the Duchy of Wheel is the last major province still unconquered by the cruel sorceress, Marlinda, the creator of the enchanted barrier. And Marlinda has special plans for Alexandria.Tal, the hotheaded, impulsive Prince and Heir of the Empire of Meredith, has been banished to a remote garrison for his reckless behavior. There he happens upon a group of raiders-one whose leader possesses the means for opening a way through the Veil.Alexandria and Tal's paths will cross...but in ways neither could ever have imagined.
Synopsis
Beautiful World, Magical World...Deadly World
Bullied and lonely, teenager Mona Parker's plan to end her life is interrupted when her guardian angel appears one night. He brings her a proposition.
Swap your life with another.
Mona agrees and awakens on Meredith, a magical world filled with flying horses, gnomes, and faeries. Now, Alexandria Duvalier, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Duke, servants wait on her every whim. Sought after by scores of men, love-once a laughable prospect-is now finally within reach. Then her fresh and happy life comes crashing down. Her new world has a dark and deadly side.
And if she is not very careful, it will kill her.
Erin Decker for Bookish
I am a sucker for a good fantasy and The Open Portal did not disappoint. The author has a huge imagination, and I recommend this book to readers of high fantasy.