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Summary: good book!
Review: i liked this book a lot. the pace was pretty fast and Aly was a good character. i had wondered if her personality would be just like Alanna's,making the book a sort of "repeat" of the earlier ones, but no, she's a lot more like her father, with a strong personality but a sense of humor. read this book if you liked some of Tamora PIerce's other books! youll probably enjoy it!
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Summary: Not Pierce's best, but not her worst either
Review: Trickster's Choice was definitely a good read, especially if you're a long-time Pierce fan (even more so if you love all the books set in Tortall). But it's true it didn't have all the vibrancy of some of the past books. Aly was an interesting character, and it was nice to see a main character of a different sort, rather than a I Want To Fight type, like Alanna and Kel (both of whom I adored, but a third would've just been too much). And it seemed like Pierce was taking this story from a different standpoint than her others which was also nice and refreshing. But Aly also seemed to lack a lot of what the others had. Her foundation was shaky, she wasn't that well established and she (and the plot) seemed a little -too- perfect. Maybe this was just me, but I felt everything worked out very easily, with few obstacles. Aly always has things under relative control and even those who oppose her (such as the raka mage) eventually agree to work with her. The story in general was a little too smooth and lacked suspence to make it perfect. Many times I found myself rolling my eyes because it all Worked Out. Again. So it's not of the same calibre of Kel or Alanna (but then, nothing matches up to Alanna). But it's still good, and still worth a read. There're good characters and it's certainly entertaining. And as always I love the peeks into the old characters lives - Kel and Alanna sparring was fantastic.
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Summary: Wow Cool The best
Review: Well It is uterly amazing Alianne gets taken away from her famly after running away to get away from her mom and becomes a slave she is given to the Balitangs She makes a deel with a god and has to keep the family alive untill fall. Alliane uses all of her spunk courage wit and sight (how to tell when people are lieing) to get herself and the family through the summer and oh wait I can't tell you the rest oh well. When does Tricksters Queen come out
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Summary: Great, but hard to follow
Review: After a fight with her mother, King's Champion Alanna the Lioness, Alianne runs away from Pirate's Swoop and is captured by bandits and sold into slavery on the exotic Copper Isles. She serves a noble household and becomes embroiled in a conflict between the native raka people of the isles, who are planning a rebellion for more freedom, since they have been oppressed by the luarin ruling class. Under the protection of the Trickster God, Kyprioth, Aly learns she is part of a plan to create massive change and meddle in the affairs of the islands. Well written, fast paced and engrossing with romance, humour and action, this book has something for everyone. The beginning is a little hard to get into, but persevere and you will be rewarded!
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Summary: Disappointed by Protector of the Small? Despair no more!
Review: This was a hundred times better than Protector of the Small...Aly is a bright lively character that stays interesting right to the end!(even though the story is not over yet! We have to wait til Trickster's Queen!) She's so much better than angry little Keladry. Aly takes lots of characteristics from her father, George Cooper, which is perfectly fine! Awww...and I love Nawat! :-D
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Summary: Trickster's Choice
Review: I love Tamora Pierce, but I'm always dissapointed when I expect her to write a book as good as her Alanna quartet. Aly is great but I suppose no one can be as great as Alanna was. Trickster's Choice is a book about a 16-year-old struggling in life to find what she wants to do with her life. Her dream is to become a spy, but neither George or Alanna (her parents) will allow it. Her life has been pretty simple so far. She helps her dad with paper work and flirts with who ever is in sight. She's a butterfly. When she sails out for a small trip to dodge her mother, she is soon captured by pirates and sold into slavery. The god Kyprioth (also known as the Trickster) and Aly have a wager. She needs to keep a family alive for the summer, a family who will become very important in the future. The kids in the family (two girls about Aly's age) have to fulfill a prophecy... and Aly gets to go back home to her parents when the summer's over. That's the deal. But even after fulfilling what she came for (keeping the family safe for the summer) she can't leave. She loves them almost as much as she loves her own family and they love her back. She has many friends there and still the prophecy is not fulfilled... so she stays... and in this time has many adventures and falls in love with a once-crow man.
In the end you can tell that there are many adventures still to come. The prophecy is still not done and another book awaits- The Trickster's Queen... have fun waiting for it ;)
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: For any of those readers who thirsted for more Tortall books- celebrate! This book continues the legacy of the strong heroines of Tortall while adding new twists and turns.Aly introduces her own spark in Trickster's Choice. I recommend this books along with all of the other of Pierce's book for any reader who loves fantasy, no matter what age?
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Summary: Completely Different, yet excellent.
Review: I'm so used to Tamora Pierce's writing style, this made me blink. It was no less in depth, and the mystery is enchanting. Aly wants to be a spy, but her father George of Pirates Swoop (second in command for Tortal's spy-network) won't allow it, nor will her mother the sharp-tounged Alanna or Pirates Swoop and Olau. Her parents insist she find something to do with her life, rather than just have fun, but all she wants is to be a spy. Alanna gets back from the war, and chooses Aly to be her project. Aly ducks away in time to prevent this, but on her way to a visit gets kidnapped by pirates and becomes a slave at the Copper Isles. There she meets Kyprioth, the God of Tricks, who makes a wadger with her that she cannot keep two important children alive from the summer. There's more under this simple wager than what Kyprioth let's loose. Alys follows this family into exile, when the current King looses faith with them, although that's not rare for the King. He is the one to give her a chance to use her tallents, and in the process they form a amusing team, the persfect match for Kyprioths ends. Alys, through spying, convincing, saving, and more gains her place in the family and by that does many things that creates her to what she is at the end. And here I am breathlessly awaiting the next book, I heard it is called "Tricksters Queen", but realizing that I have most likely a year to sit a wait. Tamora Pierce never lets us down, her novels remain as perfect as ever.
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Summary: When Does The Tricksters Queen Come Out?
Review: This book was 100% fabulous! I love the Song of the Lioness quartet, but the Daughter of the Lioness books(at least the first) is even better! This book is about Alanna's 16 year old daughter Alianne(a.k.a. Aly), who wants to become a spy, much to the disappointment of her parents, who flatly refuse her. Aly runs away and gets captured by pirates to be sold as a slave. In order to not be a "bed-warmer" Aly makes herself as ugly as possible. She gets sold to the Balitang family, who are kind, but out of favor with the king. The Trickster, god of the Raka(the natives on the Copper Isles, the opposite of the white Laurin), comes to her and tells her that, if she protects the Balitang children he will persuade her father to let her become a spy. So Aly does so, along with gaining the Raka slaves trust, learning to speak to the crows, and finding reluctant happiness in one crow-mans kisses.
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Summary: Another hit for Tamora Pierce
Review: First of all I just want to say that I really liked this book a lot. I've been hoping that Pierce would write a book like this - featuring a new character, preferably not another warrior like Alanna and Kel (don't get me wrong, they're fantastic characters, I just wanted to read about someone different.) And along came Aly who's a lot less high profile, I guess you could say. The new characters were well thought out, and the old characters were consistent with their previous books. The plot was wonderful as well, however I was surprised that Pierce didn't write this book about the war in Scanra. That war was a huge deal in Kel's books but now in Aly's they're kind of shunted to the side. Anyway, great book. Read it. Now. haha
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