Jacob Reckless Quotes

What if there was a world beyond here, just behind the plane of glass that makes up your mirror? Would you go? Jacob Reckless did, at first he spent equal amounts of times in our world and in the Mirrorworld, until eventually, residents of our world doubted he still existed. It is a completely different story beyond the mirror where the name Jacob Reckless is famous, the man who hunts for magical items of exceeding rarity, Empress Therese herself uses his services, the man who escaped the fairies, Jacob Reckless can do anything. Then Jacob’s brother, William, follows him through the mirror. William, having no experience in this Mirrorworld full of magic, gets clawed by a Goyl and cursed to become a Goyl himself. Jacob is determined to save …show more content…
The rose itself plays a large role in this book. This rose grows around and in Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Much like the spinning wheel from her tale, if one pricks there finger on the rose’s thorns, they fall into a sleep like death, forgotten by time till true loves kiss frees them. After failing a few times to cure William of his curse, Jacob realizes he needs more time, as William is nearly transformed into a Goyl and is having trouble remembering who he is. So, Jacob, sly as a con man, tells William that this rose should cure him, convincing him to pick it. Naturally William pricks his fingers and falls a sleep, Jacob plans to use this time he has obtained to find a cure and then have Claire, William’s girlfriend, wake William with a kiss. Perhaps the plan would have worked, but the Goyl’s find them and torture Jacob until Claire wakes William with true love’s kiss. This rose is also Jacob’s second to last trick he uses on his brother, making it quite symbolic and also alluding to Jacob’s last trick, or lie. Jacob tricks William into a near-death state in order to save him, and finally Jacob makes it so that he will die very soon so that William is saved, and William will never be the wiser until it’s too