Aly is the daugher of two very prominent people in her country. Neither of them is willing to allow her to join the family business of spying, which is what she wants to do. They just want her to grow up. In a fit of pique, she leaves to visit friends. On her journey there, she is abducted by pirates and sold into slavery in the Copper Isles, a kingdom far from her native land. She plans to escape asap, using her spy skills, only before she can accomplish that, she is informed she was chosen by the Copper Isles' main god, the Trickster, to help keep two young girls alive so one of them can lead the land into rebellion and become the promised Queen.
Wow, that's a lot to process. And since this is a YA novel, Aly is able to make this all happen. The books were good, except for one thing-Aly is able to accomplish all of these goals without a single failure or misstep the whole time. I will admit that the author goes out of her way to show us how well Aly is trained as a spy, and that Aly covers all of her bases like ten times each. But still, it was hard to swallow that a young girl, in a strange country, never makes one mistake. That bothered me, and ruined some of my enjoyment of the story overall.
Trickster's Choice Trickster's Queen
Tamora Pierce
you know the drill/62
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