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Trickster's Choice - Tamora Pierce
Title: Trickster's Choice
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 432
Date read: March, 2007; September 2006
Summary: Alianne, or Aly, daughter of the warrior queen Alanna the Lioness, has the skills of both her mother and father as well as a delicious sense of humor, which serves her well when she is chosen by the trickster god Kyprioth to serve as his secret agent and a slave for a year in the embattled Copper Isles. There the dark-skinned natives, or raka, have been conquered and crushed by the laurin, light-skinned people from the mainland. The burning raka resentment is fueled by prophecies of a twice royal queen who will free them, aided by the "wise one, the cunning one, the strong one, the warrior, and the crows." Just how each of the colorful characters and Aly herself fit into this prophecy and Kyprioth's tricky plan keeps readers guessing. Aly plots to show her skill at spying as she flirts with the god and is courted by Nawat, a crow transformed into a handsome young man, who is puzzled when she rejects his attempts to mate-feed her with grubs and ants. (From Amazon.com)
Review: After having read "The Circle" books, it was nice to get back to Tortall, even if this book doesn't quite live up to the standards set by "Alanna" and "Protector of the Small". Aly is even more 'the hero who saves the day' in every situation than Alanna and Kell were. Of course she is the main character, but it gets old to read how she just cannot do anything wrong (almost), but comes to the rescue when everybody else is stumped again and again.
But perhaps that's just me being overly critical ;-) It is an enjoyable book and one I had no problems rereading just 6 months after my first read-through of it.
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Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 432
Date read: March, 2007; September 2006
Summary: Alianne, or Aly, daughter of the warrior queen Alanna the Lioness, has the skills of both her mother and father as well as a delicious sense of humor, which serves her well when she is chosen by the trickster god Kyprioth to serve as his secret agent and a slave for a year in the embattled Copper Isles. There the dark-skinned natives, or raka, have been conquered and crushed by the laurin, light-skinned people from the mainland. The burning raka resentment is fueled by prophecies of a twice royal queen who will free them, aided by the "wise one, the cunning one, the strong one, the warrior, and the crows." Just how each of the colorful characters and Aly herself fit into this prophecy and Kyprioth's tricky plan keeps readers guessing. Aly plots to show her skill at spying as she flirts with the god and is courted by Nawat, a crow transformed into a handsome young man, who is puzzled when she rejects his attempts to mate-feed her with grubs and ants. (From Amazon.com)
Review: After having read "The Circle" books, it was nice to get back to Tortall, even if this book doesn't quite live up to the standards set by "Alanna" and "Protector of the Small". Aly is even more 'the hero who saves the day' in every situation than Alanna and Kell were. Of course she is the main character, but it gets old to read how she just cannot do anything wrong (almost), but comes to the rescue when everybody else is stumped again and again.
But perhaps that's just me being overly critical ;-) It is an enjoyable book and one I had no problems rereading just 6 months after my first read-through of it.
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