Episode 86 - Trickster's Choice, by Tamora Pierce

Hope you’ve been practicing your spy tricks, because we’re rereading Trickster’s Choice, by Tamora Pierce! Madeleine and Grace explore the ways in which Pierce succeeds and fails in realizing a colonialist fantasy society built on slavery, and laying out the uprising percolating beneath. The spoiled but practical Aly is our guide as we get to know the Copper Isles and its enslaved indigenous people looking to the half-Raka noble sisters Dove and Sarai as signs of a prophecy nearing actualization. Trickster god Kyprioth is teasing us throughout, and the throne changes hands entirely too often. Political intrigue, Alanna & George’s questionable parenting, and a hot crow-man everyone wants to kiss - how can you resist?

Thanks to all our listeners who have requested more Tamora Pierce!

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(FOR NAWAT FANS ONLY, AVERT YOUR EYES IF YOU DON’T LIKE A CROW-PERSON AND PERSON-PERSON RELATIONSHIP) — Some choice Nawat fan art for you to enjoy.