The third Dimensional Alliance book, where choice becomes the heart of the story. A tribute and a review.
Mirrors of Infinity, the third book in The Dimensional Alliance, turns on a single idea that clearly mattered to Bonnie Dillabough: choice. As the synopsis puts it, in all things, choice was the pivotal factor, and no one could choose for Jenny. For a series built on a reluctant heroine carrying the fate of a multiverse, that insistence on the irreducibility of personal choice is the moral center, and this volume puts it front and center.
Jenny remains the key to victory, but the book is less about the mechanics of the conflict than about the trials she must face and the decisions only she can make. Bonnie frames the stakes not as a problem to be solved but as a series of choices to be made, which is a quietly humane way to build a fantasy adventure.
Choice as the heart of the story
There is something of Bonnie’s own worldview in this. She believed in flawed but good-hearted people rising to meet a destiny they did not expect, and a story that locates its drama in choice rather than in raw power is a story that trusts its characters to be moral agents. Jenny is the key not because she is the strongest but because of what she chooses, and that emphasis reflects the optimism and faith in people that ran through everything Bonnie wrote and, by every account, everything she did.
In memory
A tribute to Bonnie Dillabough — the friend, mentor, and author behind The Dimensional Alliance, in her own story and mine.
The midpoint of the first arc
As the third volume, Mirrors of Infinity sits at the heart of the series’ opening movement, deepening Jenny’s trials before the second trilogy turns to her aunt Lizzie’s story. It is the kind of middle book that consolidates a series’ themes, and the theme it consolidates, that choice is the pivotal factor in all things, is one worth a reader carrying beyond the page. Bonnie’s stories were grounded in light, and the light here is the dignity of a character who must choose for herself.
Keep reading
Hopeful fiction: stories that choose light without losing tension — the sincere, optimistic sensibility that defined Bonnie’s multiverse.
Written to make people smile
Bonnie had a phrase for what she did: pretending on paper. She did not have to grow up, she said; she got to write all these crazy stories and make people smile. That spirit is everywhere in a book like this one, which treats a heroine’s moral trials with genuine weight while never losing the underlying joy of invention. The best compliment she ever received, she once told me, was a reader saying they could feel her in every paragraph, and it was exactly right. A book centered on choice, written by someone who chose, at sixty-three, to finally tell her story, carries that presence. She was in every page.
Her readers felt it. People approached her in grocery stores to ask when the next book was coming. She got her books into libraries and ran events at Barnes & Noble. For Bonnie the reward was never fame; it was someone walking up and asking for the next one. Mirrors of Infinity is one of the books that earned her those questions, and reading it now, with its quiet insistence that we each must choose for ourselves, is a way of hearing that voice again, the warm, unhurried, deeply human voice her readers came to love and now have to find on the page rather than in person.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Mirrors of Infinity about?
The third book in The Dimensional Alliance. Jenny remains the key to victory, but the volume centers on the trials she must overcome and the decisions only she can make, with choice presented as the pivotal factor in all things.
Where does it fall in the series?
It is book three of The Dimensional Alliance, the heart of the series’ opening movement, deepening Jenny’s story before the later books turn to her aunt Lizzie’s history.
What is the book’s central theme?
Choice. The synopsis stresses that choice is the pivotal factor and that no one could choose for Jenny, making personal moral agency the heart of the story rather than raw power or cleverness.
How does it reflect the author?
Bonnie Dillabough believed in flawed but good-hearted people rising to unexpected destinies, and a story that locates its drama in choice reflects that faith in people. Her work was consistently grounded in light and optimism.
Who was Bonnie Dillabough?
An author and mentor who began writing novels at sixty-three and completed eight Dimensional Alliance books before passing away in April 2025. A tribute to her is linked on this page.
