Mirror of Destiny

Sixteen-year-old Twilla is taken with a number of other young women to be wives for a new settlement. She has some training as a healer and has a magic mirror she is only just learning to use. There is a rather improbable plot in which she escapes a forced marriage to join the fairies, free the dwarves and defeat an evil genius and other nasty bad guys while finding true love along the way. I was rather disappointed because I remember Norton as a better writer.

Eh. Weird story - very Norton in language, but wandering in plot even more than many Nortons. Twilla is the POV character, and most of the time she hasn't a clue what's going on - neither what others are doing around her (motivations), nor what she's doing herself. Her mirror-power is very convenient, supplying exactly what she needs each time. I'd have been more interested in seeing Ylon's thoughts and feelings, as he dealt with his blindness and with what's going on around him. I don't know, it's not very satisfactory. It's apparently the second in a series, but I don't know what ties them together - people, place, or just a theme. Have to find another and check it out.