Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce is an excellent, challenging and complicated tale that really focuses on empowering women. Aly is the daughter of Alanna the Lioness, Champion of the king of Tortall while her father George is a baron and second in command of the realm’s spies. Her brothers are studying to be a mage and a knight but all Aly wants to do is have fun—until she’s kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave on the Copper Islands. There she meets the Trickster god Kyprioth who’d been defeated and banished to sea by Mithros and the Great Goddess, his brother and sister. His people, the dark-skinned raka have been enslaved for the last 300 years by the light-skinned luarin who worship Mithros. Kyprioth, the Trickster, makes a deal with Aly that will hopefully restore him and the raka to power. She must keep her true identity hidden as she works as a slave to help battle the injustice and crazy royalty on the Copper Islands. A list of characters and glossary at the end help the reader to untangle all the complexities of this wonderful but high-level read. GIRL POWER!

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