Name: Trickster's Choice
ISBN: 9780786267385

Tamora Pierce

Alianne - known as Aly - has a good life. Her father is second in command of Tortall's spies. Her mother is the most famous knight in the country. Aly spends her time helping her father decode messages and, to her mother's dismay, dyeing her hair blue. But everything changes when, on a solo boat ride, Aly is captured by pirates and ends up a slave to the Balitangs, a noble family on the Copper Isles.

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Trickster's Choice

A brand new hardback from Tamora Pierce. Alianne has an oppressive heritage. She is the daughter of Alanna, Lady Knight and King's Champion - the foremost warrior of Tortall. (See "Song of the Lioness".) Aly is not a fighter - she hates her mother's obsession, which constantly takes her away from her family and makes her children feel neglected and resentful - especially Aly. After a stormy argument with her mother, Aly runs away to make them sorry. But she gets more than she bargained for when she is kidnapped by pirates, and sold as a slave in the far-off Copper Isles. Aly's future is bleak, but then she finds out that this has all been planned, by a god, no less. Aly is a favourite of the god Kyprioth - she is the Trickster's Choice.

Marsh Wu

I think if I had to chose a favorite book, this would be it. The book is about the daughter of the famous Tortall's Lioness, Alanna, and what she does. What she does is dye her hair blue, and muddle around in life. She wants to be a spy, but her father flat out forbids it. The book's got anything you could want; gods, kidnapping and insane royalty.

Anyways, she is my favorite character ever, and I definitely prefer this book to the second, though not by a lot.

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled with political intrigue, murderous conspiracy, and warring gods. This is the first of two books featuring Alianne.

Justine Rose

I've read this book multiple times now, and I love it every time I read it. I've never read any of Tamora's books before, but after this I would be interested to. I really enjoyed the characters (and loved their names!) and I loved the spying element of this book, it was so cool. In my opinion, the second book stands up to the first, and overall the duology was a great read.

Aly is from a family known for great deeds. She is the daughter of Alanna, the famed knight and King’s Champion of Tortall. But even though she is bold and brave, like her mother, her true talents lie on her father’s side, in the art of spying.
 
When Aly is captured by pirates and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Isles, she strikes a bargain with the trickster god. If she can keep young noblewomen Sarai and Dove safe for the summer, then he will return Aly to her family. The task should be simple, but Sarai and Dove are anything but. It’s a time of murderous plotting at court, and Aly will need to rely on her training and the insights of a strange young man named Nawat to survive in a world where trust can cost you your life.

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When Aly comes home to Pirate's Swoop to visit her father, she finds that her mother, the Lioness, is on her way home, too. Frustrated by both parents, Aly makes an escape. But things go horribly wrong. Instead of enjoying a few days at sea in her boat, Aly is captured by pirates and sold as a slave to the noble Balitang family of the Copper Isles, where she is immediately enmeshed in royal family intrigues. When the Balitangs are sent into exile, Aly goes with them. But not before entering into a life-and-death wager with the Trickster god, Kyprioth: keep the Balitang children alive until the end of summer, and she will be returned home safe and sound. Can Aly do it? In this sweeping saga by best-selling author Tamora Pierce, Aly is caught up in a world where nothing is what it seems, and where she must hide her identity. Will Aly win the wager and return home? Or will the treachery and conspiracy of gods and men prove too much for her?

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