This one's a GREAT book by Tamora Pierce. It's about the daughter of a spymaster who gets captured as a slave. She makes a dubious friendship with a trickster god, learns how to speak with crows (especially a cute crow who morphs into manhood) and sets up an entire spy complex in the kingdom in which she is enslaved. If you like this one...try the sequel: Trickster Queen. It's also very good!
Hope I helped...enjoy.
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
~Albert Einstein
I LOVED that book! After I read those two books, I went and read the ones about her mother, Alana. They were good too. I also got to understand her mom a bit more. Not that you got to see that much in the Trickster books. I forgot the name of her father, so when I was reading the Alana books, I didn't know who to root for. Yeah, I liked them okay.
I have to say, I'm not Tamora Pierce's greatest fan. Not remotely. But this is one awesome book!
I must admit, I've yet to read the second one even though I read Trickster's Choice for the first time probably two years ago *looks sheepish* but I'll get around to it sometime. The thing that bothered me was the crow guy... I can't remember his name. Nawat? Something like that. Her whole fling with him is just really, really strange.
But otherwise, this book was amazing! And, I have to be honest, at least 10 times better than anything else she's written:)
I think these were some of her best books. I can't say I really enjoyed some of her other pieces. But Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen were really good. I kind of wish there was a few more books after those. But I guess that might have wrecked them..
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