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357 pp.
| Simon
| April, 2015
|
TradeISBN 978-1-4424-4281-8$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-4424-4283-2
(4)
YA
Palace Chronicles series.
When her twelve sister-princesses (Palace of Mirrors) are presumed dead in a palace fire, Desmia escapes a coup attempt with help from some beggar children and travels to neighboring Fridesia in hopes of finding at least one sister-princess alive. Though the princess-disguised-as-a-beggar-on-a-journey plot is pedestrian, readers will cheer Desmia's new realizations as well as her hearteningly happy ending.