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I thought the premise of the book was interesting, but the first story was based on a time and place I have very little interest in: the hardscrabble existence of Western frontier life. Shay was a spoiled brat who had to adjust to life in this past, and I just found it depressing. Didn't like Shay, didn't like her parents, didn't like her MIL, and couldn't get through it. Deleting it from my Kindle.


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The Mirror Marlys Millhiser Books Reviews

In California, my mom handed me this book. I was 14,She told me I would love it. She was right. In my 20's my mom and I were discussing books that we both read and the mirror was brought up. We couldn't remember who the author was but she wanted to read it again. We searched but couldn't find the right one . The small town we moved to in Kansas 1950 was the population, had it. So she read it then I read it. In 2007 my mom wanted to find the book again but no library around here carried it. In2012 my mom passed away, but I never quit looking. So I read books now on a kindle and two days ago I thought of this book and searched for titles With the word mirror in it , man there are thousands of them. And came across it so I purchased it. So I dedicate your book to my mother's memory and her love of reading. So thank you. Linda
The Mirror, by Marlys Millhiser

Really surprised a movie was never made on this interesting fantasy “time travel” story. Similar to the 1980 film Somewhere in Time, you don’t need a time machine to get a taste of the past. Unfortunately for Shay and Brandy, they get more than a taste!

This is a story of two young women from the same family but separated by several decades of American “progress.” Shay is a free-spirited girl, whose ideas of sex and marriage would make any Victorian-era woman frump and fuss – and musical tastes as the Bee Gees might do that too.

The story is actually the story of an Oriental mirror. Of unknown origin, it travels from one place to another, enticing its victims and makes itself known through the use of electricity and it’s many-fingered array along the edges of a very tall mirror. It hums and crackles with anticipation, pulling the viewer in to either (a) drive them insane to insanity or (b) switch them with others decades in the past or future.

The author builds us up with a brief history of the mirror and also a major history of a family with its insanities, dysfunctionalism and crazy characters in the West – Colorado!

Plots and Points

Shay is great as she tries to adapt to the past, wishing in some ways she paid better attention to her family history and American history as she confronts the Great Depression, the birth of twins and her own mother (yikes!) and the dawn of World War II (when was Pearl Harbor – December 11th or 7th? Oops).

Most of the book revolves around Shay’s decisions Will she mess up family history? What would Brandy do? Should she marry the man John McCabe wants her to marry? But Strock does not have the eyes that she has – or had. What of Rachael, her mother?

Later in the book we get to know Rachael – a mother who loves her family’s past, struggles with a bad marriage, and now her mother just died in front of the wedding mirror. And now Shay is not herself. When Rachael discovers the truth, she goes a bit bonkers.

However, the author does not develop this part of the story very much. Kinda drops Rachael as a main character and that’s just too bad. More could have been done there.

The Brandy story is not as interesting – I think because we’re living where she’s living and can understand a person from 1900 not understanding disco or women’s’ rights or liberation. Not that interesting. Shay’s confrontation with her family’s past could lead to some unpleasant changes in her own future, so that adds tension and suspense to the plot.

Meanwhile the Mirror continues to travel, affecting others through insanity and death. The horror aspect is not played up much – more of a historical fiction/fantasy story than a horror one.

Bottom Line

Decent story, rolls along well with the Brandy/Shay/Rachael characters and how the Mirror affects them. Some dropped balls with the old man & his granddaughter, Rachael’s fate and a rushed ending with her future husband Marek. Overall, recommended!
I don't know what to say except that this is one of the best books I've read on , and maybe one of the best books I've ever read. I purchased it (apparently at a great discount at $1.99) as it was billed a horror novel. I would not call it that at all. There are some unexplained deaths in the book and a supernatural plot, but not real horror. It turned out to be much more than that. It is a time travel book, in the vein of Jack Finney's famous "Time and Again," the difference being that Finney's book also had a murder mystery plot, while this one doesn't. But it resembles it in that not only are we transported back in time, but the author has obviously done extensive research (she was a history major) into the times and places in the book, namely the Boulder, Colorado area around the turn of the twentieth century. The supernatural and time travel elements are definitely intriguing, but the characterizations, the writing style and the beautiful exposition of the life and times we're taken to are a wonder I've rarely seen. Not surprising that this book was a sensation when it came out in 1979, and was the most stolen book in libraries as the time. I will not say much about the plot (which is as fascinating as the period piece), as that has been detailed extensively, already. You will be totally involved in the characters and will not want to put this book down until you find out what happens to them. I almost wish there was more of it. I definitely recommend this book.
I've been hooked on time travel books ever since reading Jack Finney's "Time and Again" which I consider a very hard act to follow. Time travel as a genre has more than its share of ho-hum books by authors who follow a formula, shallow plots, and some are so predictable it's laughable. But Marlys Millhiser writes so convincingly of the past and her lyrical descriptions are so vivid, it's hard to believe she hasn't experienced time travel herself. Even the impressions of 1978 to a young Victorian girl seem amazingly authentic and perceptive. There are a few incidents of violence and horror but nothing to be greatly disturbing. The sexual content is not graphic and is told for the sake of the story so I was not offended. I found this a page-turner to the end and look forward to reading more by Marlys Millhiser.
I thought the premise of the book was interesting, but the first story was based on a time and place I have very little interest in the hardscrabble existence of Western frontier life. Shay was a spoiled brat who had to adjust to life in this past, and I just found it depressing. Didn't like Shay, didn't like her parents, didn't like her MIL, and couldn't get through it. Deleting it from my .