Trickster's Choice
core novel 2003 Tortall
Record
| First published | 2003 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.26 (68,358 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780375814662 |
| Internal chronology | 13 |
Synopsis
Trickster's Choice opens the Daughter of the Lioness duology, following Alianne "Aly" of Pirate's Swoop, sixteen-year-old daughter of the famous knight Alanna, who dreams of becoming a spy like her parents but is forbidden from the dangerous work. After a furious argument, Aly takes a small boat out alone and is captured by pirates, then sold as a slave in the Copper Isles to an exiled noble family, the Balitangs. There she is approached by Kyprioth, the trickster god of the Copper Isles, who offers her a wager: keep the Balitang children safe through the summer and she can train as a spy, but fail and she will serve him for a year. Settling into the household's mountain exile, Aly discovers the daughters carry raka blood tied to an old prophecy, drawing her into a conspiracy to place a half-raka queen on the throne.
Where it sits
- Universe: Tortall
- Series: Daughter of the Lioness (Trickster's) core; position 1 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tamora Pierce
Notes
- From the series record (Daughter of the Lioness (Trickster's)): Aly of Pirate's Swoop (Alanna's daughter); the enum has no 'duology' value, registered as sequence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Daughter of the Lioness (Trickster's): position 1 of 2: next Trickster's Queen (2004)
- Internal chronology, within Tortall: position 13 of 14: previous Lady Knight (2002) · next Trickster's Queen (2004)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter_of_the_Lioness
- https://tamorapierce.fandom.com/wiki/Trickster%27s_Choice
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