Mirror Image [Mass Market Paperback]

Jeff Mariotte (Author)

Book Description

Series: Charmed | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

Phoebe Halliwell is stunned when her latest vision involves her younger half sister, Paige. The vision reveals to her that Paige is actually an imposter who will infiltrate the Power of Three and break it apart. However, Piper is dismissive when she learns of Phoebe's concerns -- so much so that Cole and Leo end up taking sides as well. Before long, all involved are on edge.

Paige senses that her sisters are acting strangely around her, so when she meets Timothy McBride, an attractive young stranger who purports to be a witch, she decides not to tell them. She wants to have something of her own, separate from her Charmed duties. Secrets are estranging the sisters from one another, and the timing isn't good. Women are turning up all over the city, dead by supernatural causes. The perpetrator may be connected to the sisters' past -- but if they can't work together, they might not be able to stop him.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books; 1 edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068985790X
• ISBN-13: 978-0689857904
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeffrey J. Mariotte is the multiple award-winning author of more than forty-five novels, including original supernatural thrillers Cold Black Hearts, River Runs Red and Missing White Girl, horror epic The Slab, thriller The Devil's Bait, and the Stoker-Award nominated teen horror quartet Dark Vengeance, as well as books set in the universes of Supernatural, CSI, Spider-Man, Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Conan, 30 Days of Night, and more. He is also the author of more comic books than he has time to count, including the horror graphic novel Zombie Cop, the original Western series Desperadoes (some of which have been nominated for Stoker and International Horror Guild awards) and the bestselling Presidential Material: Barack Obama. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Western Writers of America, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. With his wife, Maryelizabeth Hart, and partner Terry Gilman, he co-owns Mysterious Galaxy, a bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror. He lives on the Flying M Ranch in the American southwest with his family and pets in a home filled with books, music, toys, and other examples of American pop culture. More information than you would ever want to know about him is at jeffmariotte.com, where you'll also find a link to his blog.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent Charmed story but nothing great, July 17, 2003

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mirror Image (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a decent story for the series. Phoebe has a dream about a hidden letter in the attic. The letter is real. It is from an ancestor and warns against a fake sister who will come into the home after the death of another sister. This seems to point to Paige.

Because she had the dream, Phoebe wants to learn more. Piper just writes it off. The guys also take sides, although Leo does orb off to do some checking.

Meanwhile Paige does not know what is going on in the house but meets a new guy. She really likes him although some of her instincts tell her she trusts him too much.

To make matters worse, there is a really nasty killer loose on the streets. He might be connected to a newly discovered cache of bones left by another killer 100 years previously. Yes, I know, there are shades of The Cabinet of Curiosities by Preston and Child, but they end there.

There are two things that bother me about the book. One is the way the Law of No Coincidences is ignored so heavily. This might be due to a spell placed on the household, and although it is mentioned as a possibility, it is never confirmed. There is also talk of doing a counter spell, but that is also never finalized satisfactorily.

The other problem I had was with the ever-so-tired overused plot where one sister has a secret boyfriend who turns out to be the bad guy. This has been so overdone in the series and in the books that it is just tiresome.

I will say that unlike the last book, there are no one-time major revelations (i.e. a new facet to Phoebe's power). For that reason I enjoyed it even if some of the story was too old hat.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yet another great Charmed book, September 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Mirror Image (Mass Market Paperback)

This book kept me in the dark but I did have a feeling about who the bad guy was.I think they shouldn't make it obvious on who the "Bad guy" is...they should make it where we think that person is bad but really is good and vise versa with the good guy. It's kid of too preidctable. But I still love Charmed! I just have one question...why are Phoebe and Cole still together? When are they going to make a book where they are not together anymore? I guess the book series is different than the t.v series because in the t.v series when Paige's hair is blonde, Phoebe wants nothing to do with Cole but in the book "Between Worlds" they are still together...well sorry I got a little carried away...back to "Mirror Image" I thought this book was great and I can't wait until I read the "Between Worlds" book. So far I've read all the Charmed book and I have not missed a single one. Some of the books were kind of [not good] like "Spirit of the Wolf," & "Date with Death," I didn't really get those books....But I still think that Charmed rules and it beats out all the WB shows! Nothing and I mean nothing can beat out Charmed. It's still number one on my list of "favorites" and it will always be number 1!!!!!!!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a decent book, July 8, 2003

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tammy (chicago, il United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mirror Image (Mass Market Paperback)

when pheobe has a premonition that leads her to suspect paige is not who she is supposed to be, piper and her take opposite sides on the matter and this causes a lot of problems in the halliwell manor. paige senses that something is wrong but since noone will discuss it with her she assumes that she is at the root of the problem. little do our charmed sisters know that a powerful demon has come to the conclusion that a house divided cannot stand against his sinsiter plots. can the sisters find peace before the demon has his way and endangers them all? this book had a good ideal for a story but the author did not develop the relationships and problems enough to keep you awake long. this reminds me of the episode that prue was in and a demon divided up the sisters in much the same way. the author has potential but don't let the book drag so much and put more details in it.