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Tamora Tuesday: Trickster’s Queen (Daughter of the Lioness #2)

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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The Plot: Aly fulfilled Kyprioth’s wager–she kept the Balitang children (Sarai, Dove and their younger half-siblings) alive until the end of the summer. Instead of returning home scot-free, Aly decides to stay in the Copper Isles and work with the raka conspiracy. The raka have a prophesy that fortells the rise of a twice-royal queen: a girl who is descended from both the luarin and raka royal lines. The only two eligible girls in the country are Sarai and Dove Balitang–their luarin father is cousin to the royal family and their (deceased) raka mother was descended from the old raka queens.

The conspiracy plans to groom Sarai (now seventeen) to be queen, but it’sĀ not as easy as it looks. Aly has to build a network of spies, corral the high-spirited Sarai (who always seems to find an inappropriate man to sneak into the shadows with), unite luarin and raka conspirators despite long-standing, often violent racial tensions, and work through her new, confusing relationship with Nawat, the crow-turned-man.

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Tamora Tuesday: Trickster’s Choice (Daughter of the Lioness #1)

29 Tuesday May 2012

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The Plot: 16-year-oldĀ Alianne (Aly) of Pirate’s Swoop may be the daughter of Alanna the Lioness–a legendary knight–but she’s not a warrior. She not even much of a lady. She wants to be a spy, like her father George Cooper, the King’s spymaster. Her parents, however, have other plans. They want Aly to be a proper Tortallian lady. They want her to pay attention in school, to meet a nice, normal boy, grow up, get married and run a noble household.

But everyone’s expectations for Aly’s life go topsy-turvy when Aly is kidnapped and sold as a slave in the Copper Isles–a tumultuous island kingdom west of Tortall. Aly becomes a slave in a prominent noble house, and she makes plans to escape and return to Tortall… until a mysterious Trickster god makes Aly an offer she can’t refuse.

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