Loved itOh, I love her. I've read her four times. She's amazing. If you have not tried the mask of mirrors again, you got to give it a go.
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Mask of Mirrors (2021)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars. Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadežra with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house, securing her fortune and her sister's future. But as she's drawn into the elite world of House Traementis, she realizes her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as nightmare magic begins to weave its way through the City of Dreams, the poisonous feuds of its aristocrats and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled…with Ren at their heart.
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- 9780356515175
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- 688 pages
Genres: fantasy
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