Hispanic culture interwoven into royal fantasy

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Author Isabel Ibanez takes the classic but always intriguing plot line of decoy royalty and makes it her own in the first two chapters of Woven in Moonlight. The inclusion of Hispanic culture throughout makes this work special. Readers find it in the chapter headings, character names, descriptions of food, bilingualism, and magical realism element of the fantasy: the protagonist can weave moonlight! While there might be a bit too much historical exposition going on in these early chapters, I do not think teen fantasy readers will be deterred, especially with two major revelations in the second chapter. This would be a great choice for fans of S. J. Kincaid's The Diabolic or of Jodi Meadows's Fallen Isles trilogy.