Trickster's Queen

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Summary: Yay for the sequel!
Review: After reading Trickster's Choice, I definitely had to read the sequel! This book is even better than the first. I love the character development in Aly as she starts to mature and her adventures even better. I also love the humor Pierce adds to the book, making it all the more enjoyable to read. This book kept me off my feet so often that I ended up finishing the book within four days. However, I was slightly disappointed that Pierce did not place Nawat in throughout all of the plot. Overall, I still think it's a great book filled with humor and thrilling adventures.

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Summary: Amber -- The best book I've ever read!!!
Review: A good book from. Tamora Pierce. She is an excellent writer. I like her work as much as Meg Cabot's.

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Summary: A wonderful sequal!
Review: Ms. Pierce's enjoyable sequel to the Trickster's Choice is a wonderful read. It is in this book that Aly's skills come into full blossom. As the rebellion swings into full tilt Aly is at its heart, playing her part of an ancient prophecy as being the Cunning One. Taking part in a rebellion in the works for Centuries, Aly is at her best teaching the Raka how to use their resources and planning assaults on key targets, it is here her unusual education comes into play.

This is a fun book to read for any age person. I started reading these books while looking for something for a young cousin who has gone onto buy the rest of these books for herself. This book is a real page turner, filled with battles, intrigues, humor and romance. I heartily recommend this book and the preceding book in the Aly series.


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Summary: Trickster's Queen
Review: Tamora Pierce has done it again! In her sequel to "Trickster's Choice" the raka further their rebellion against the luarin. Aly now is much more responsible and has taken on the role of 'Duani' (grandmother)(her name is like The Whisper Man (her father) with the pack of spies that she has trained over the winter at Tanair. However I find that sometimes Aly seems to get cocky and unprofessional which is probably the only setback about this story. The are a great many suprises that will leave you hooked on the book. Most of the characters are still part of story however Nawat does not make many apperances until the middle/end . Tamora Pierce's writing style gets better with every book and this is no exception! I would recommend this to all Tamora Pierce fans (however I suggest that you read all the Tortall books before becuase there is a lot of references to them) and all other fantasy lovers!

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Summary: Interesting yet slightly disappointing
Review: The sequel to Trickster's choice. It was an interesting book, but I was sad to find a lack of characterization in the story. Most of it was just plot and action. Character's personality wasn't shown much, perhaps owning to the fact the author planned to finsh the story in the second book. Yes, it was interesting, but it was also slightly emotionless and stone-like.
I was also sad to see that the series ended just like that. I would have loved to see more of Aly. But it seems that the author plans to write more Numair in her coming books, which frankly, doesn't interest me much anymore.


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Summary: Bad? Good? Great? Best? Yeah; That's the right word for it!
Review: This book starts a couple months after the end of the 1st book. I think that the book was one of the best of Tamora Pierce's book, but it would have been better if Nawat would fall in love with some other girl; Aly deserves someone who likes the same stuff as her. Not that Nawat is not a good character...lol. It's just my opinion...

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Summary: Trickster's Queen
Review: This second--and sadly, last--book in the Daughter of the Lioness duet is absolutely amazing. It's so wonderful I get shivers just thinking about it. Tamora Pierce has spun her usual spell over this book--it's just as beautifully written as any of her others. My only regret is that the series doesn't go on.

Aly has decided to stay in the Copper Isles to help finish of the rebellion that has been brewing in the raka community for years. Upon moving back to the capitol of the Isles, Aly is swept up in the intricacy of court plotters, enemy spies, and her own spy network (which includes darkings delivered by Tkaa). Distracted by city life and her own troubles with her romance with Nawat, the crow-man, Aly fails to see what's been right before her eyes; Sarai, the recalcitrant queen to-be, is in love and planning to run away. Before Aly can stop her, Sarai is gone and it seems all the raka's plans to overthrow luarin rule must come to a halt. But even Aly has forgotten a few key tools that could--or could not--finally finish off the rebellion. Will she be able to put them to good use in time to save her own life and the lives of others?

I don't know why I'm surprised anymore that Tamora Pierce always turns out a wonderful book. They are all so completely resplendent, and Trickster's Queen is no exception.

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Summary: Alex's review
Review: To the people who are surprised that this series was only two books long, I just say that it's almost the same length as the Lioness Rampant Quartet, so what's the big deal? The second book alone has 439 pages of story, and that's not counting the long prologue in the beginning and the now traditional glossary in the back. Considering most "kids", "YA" or "not-for-the-big-people" books average about 180 pages, I think you're getting more than enough bang for you buck. To the people who think the book ends kind of quickly, I say that at first I agreed with you. Then I thought about it, and the ending made more sense. It's still not nearly as messy as almost every revolution ever has been, but we've got to realize that Aly is not the one to set up this revolution, no matter what any reviewer might think. This revolution has been in the works for generations, it didn't start when Aly showed up, and she herself is only involved in one small if important part of it, so there's lots of stuff going on that we only hear about now and again. To use a metaphor, we didn't come in at the end of the opening credits, we came in just before the closing ones. Looking at it that way, the timing of the events in the book made more sense. So even though I could have enjoyed a trilogy, a sequel does work just as well from a story point of view.

Now as to what I thought of the book ... very, very fun read. Lots of twists, and even though I saw many of them coming, I didn't see how they would actually happen. And I think it shows you what a good book this is when I tell you I hate spy stories and movies (unless they star Patrick McGoohan) yet love this book. No there are no swords, the romance is kept to an absolute minimum (then BOY does it get you in the end!) and Aly is not anti-social and disliked by the general populace, but it's still a Tamora Pierce book so you know it's going to be good. (And to tell you the truth I liked it BECAUSE of those reasons, not in spite of them.) There is a lot of killing though, but that's expected in a revolution. Most of it takes place "offstage", so to speak, but Tammy does remind us once or twice that even if the people who are killed are total jerks, they were still jerks who probably had families and people who liked them for some reason. But that's what I like about Tammy's books. There is violence, yes, but the people who commit it and suffer from it are not dehumanized. At the end of the day she reminds you that it's not "good guys" vs "bad guys" but a person vs a person, and I don't think we should ever, ever forget that. Plus, a few characters we've come to care about die as well, but if you didn't see that coming you must not have read any of Tammy's other books. So buy this book, or convince your library to buy out and then check it out, and snuggle up with it at the beginning of the weekend because I guarantee you, once you start it, you won't be able to put it down.