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| Original Title: | Trickster's Queen |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Daughter of the Lioness #2, Tortall, Tortall (chronological order) #20 , more |
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Aly’s adventure continues…. No longer a slave, Alanna’s daughter is now spying as part of an underground rebellion against the colonial rulers of the Copper Isles. The people in the rebellion believe that a prophecy in which a new queen will rise up to take the throne is about to be realized. Aly is busy keeping the potential teenage queen and her younger siblings safe, while also keeping her in the dark about her future. But Aly, who is usually adept at anticipating danger and changes, is in for a few nasty surprises.Specify About Books Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness #2)
| Title | : | Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness #2) |
| Author | : | Tamora Pierce |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Reissue |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | October 31st 2017 by Ember (first published September 28th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.28 From 53691 Users | 993 ReviewsJudgment About Books Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness #2)
Tamora Pierce was part of my literary diet when I was growing up. The combination of Western fantasy with Western science fiction means that even now I picture the fantasy city with wide boulevards, low-gabled houses, and amber sunlight dappling the warm streets.Malheureusement, growing up one comes to perceive the limitations of such a treatment of the genre.Tricksters Queen, then, is a painful reread because I approach it this time with a new clarity of vision. It is a story, essentially,Grades: 7 to 10 Genre: FantasyNo longer a slave, Alys life is still far from simple as she has become part of the plot to place a Raka queen on the throne of the Copper Isles. Over the winter she has become a master of spies for the rebellion. Another complication in her life is her relationship with the half man, half crow Nawat. He wants to solidify their relationship and cant understand Alys hesitation. The family Aly serves is moving back to the city to become part of the court there. Hoping
This is the sequel to Trickster's Choice, beginning six months or so after the events in that novel. Alianne Cooper, daughter of Alanna the Lioness and George (Tortallan spymaster) has won her wager with the god Kyprioth and kept Sarai and Dove (the two elder daughters of the Balitangs) alive, but she has elected to stay in the Copper Isles and see the half-blood Queen crowned.We begin the novel with the Balitang family arriving back in the city of Rajmuat, plunging themselves into political
More reviews available at my blog, Beauty and the Bookworm.I wasn't actually planning on reading Trickster's Queen so soon after reading Trickster's Choice, but after a few books that were just "meh," I found myself in a bit of a reading slump. And when I'm in a reading slump, I like to go back to books that I know I enjoy to get me out of it.What struck me immediately upon re-reading Trickster's Queen is its great disconnect from the first book. It picks up several months and much character
My main problem with the book was the main character- Aly. I thought she'd improve from the first book, but if anything, she got worse.Aly is arrogant, annoying, patronizing- the list goes on and on. Everything she does is right, everything she thinks turns out to be true, and absolutely nothing catches her off-guard. No matter what happens, she knows what to do (a teenager with no field experience) and she's not at all upset. I won't give spoilers with specific examples, but it is incredibly
This book wins 4 stars and the "desk-bound protagonist" award.The Balitangs return to the capital with Aly in tow, and must survive the viper's nest of court with rulers who are dumb and crazy.On the one hand, Aly was far more boring in this book. She just kind of sat at her desk, read stuff, and occasionally had fainting spells. On the other hand, it was really nice to see the PoC strut their stuff and show everyone that they were actually doing well before Aly came along.This book did feel a
Well, that was disappointing. I had hoped that the story would evolve from the stage that Pierce had set up in the first book, that the rather non-existant stakes that Aly had faced would become something more substantial once the Balitangs returned to Rajmuat. Somehow things managed to come even easier to Aly than before and while I admired the old-school spy games of the first book they now seem to require little effort, relying on magic and gods' whims to do all the work. All the villains are
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