📚 Mirror Woven Tour

Genre: YA Fantasy

Publishing date: August 25, 2026

5+

I give + to books I love and I know I will reread on my birthday, on Bilbo's Birthday,

All Hallow's Eve, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, New Year's Day... St. Valentine's Day... We have one (of these fav celebrations) each year but we still celebrate them full of emotion. A hug we want to repeat to remember favorite memories. I have a few themed books that fit each, will add this one to my Christmas fantasy month and Valentine's recs.

This book has a lot of favorite moments. The main character has the most hilarious remarks and thoughts (I laughed and gasped aloud). The sapphic love/interest triangle is done in a way that makes me reconsider my usual opinion of the trope.

Court intrigue, magic, betrayal, ambition, invasion.

This novel is like a ballet, has the Christmas feel of a Nutcracker play with a magical world with sprinkles of fairy tale and D&D (this is a very personal opinion) Many times people think: this should be made into a movie, I would love to get tickets to see a high-production musical or ballet. It would be amazing: the ball scene, the humor, the mirror, the takeover of the evil side winning for a few chapters, the sacrifice, and the sad but promising ending.

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Will update this post with my review soon

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Rep: Sapphic, LGBT+

Synopsis:

You are cordially invited to the Dragon Masquerade …

Del has two rules. stay away from royalty. don’t fall in love.

The first – because Del is secretly a runaway princess. After the death of her sister at the hand of her boyfriend, Del flees her family, home and all the responsibilities that come with being the queendom’s new heir. With a magically constructed mirrorwoven face, Del is now unrecognisable, and disappears to the faraway opaline lagoon-city of Salato.

The second rule – because the enchantment hiding Del’s identity can only be unravelled by true love’s kiss. But that’s just fine. Del’s had enough of love anyway.

When Del breaks Rule One and becomes court bard to the newly widowed First of Salato, she is resolved to keep her head down. But Clara is naïve and trusts too easily, and soon Del finds herself having to guide Clara through the shoals of court life, somehow without revealing her own secret.

As Del grows closer to both Clara and Nasca, Clara’s brilliant, dangerous sister-in-law, it will only take a push to bring Del’s house of cards tumbling down.

Like, for example, breaking Rule Two.

Content Warning: family trauma, dead siblings

Bori Cser is a Hungarian-Australian author of young adult fantasy. At various times she has identified as a classically trained clarinettist, a biology PhD dropout and a dinosaur puppeteer, but these days mostly describes herself as in need of a nap. She lives on Dharug and Gundungurra country in Australia’s Blue Mountains with her partner and three high-maintenance cats.

@sorrynotbori 

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