He is controlling of her movement to some extent for her safety, but when she inevitably runs off to explore Thorn is more worried that she is hurt, rather than angry that he as disobeyed him. They have both been forced into this marriage, and while Thorn is in more of a position of power, he doesn't hurt her. What I love about this particular use of the arranged marriage trope is that Ophelia, while being forced to marry Thorn, is never forced to be intimate with him in any way. She is to be married to Thorn, a giant, cold, and seemingly calculating man from a nearby ark: The Pole.
LA PASSE MIROIR SERIES
The series starts with A Winter's Promise that introduces us to Ophelia, an animist and mirror visitor from Anima, one of the many arks of the world that have split since the Rupture. It's for this reason that I found the end of the series to be disappointing and missing much of what drew me in. Dabos has come up with such a unique world and manages to explain the intricacies without dumping all of the information on you at once in such an elegant way that I can't help but feel attached to this world (or what remains of it) and the people.
With a magic system that is brimming with life and excitement, political intrigue, and characters that are given time to develop it's certainly different to many of the fantasy series around today. The Mirror Visitor quartet feels like the first real fantasy I have read in a long time. This won't spoil much of the first two books, but a lot of the last two.
This is a review of the whole series, book by book, with references to major plot-points.
I read all of these books individually - this is just an easy way to review the series as a whole so this is in no way a comment about this particular edition.
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