Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen

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I've been re-reading Tamora Pierce lately and started in on Trickster's Choice this morning on my commute. The Daughter of the Lioness books easily my least favourite of the Tortall books (save for the Provost's Dog trilogy, which I haven't finished) mostly because Pierce makes a LOT of narrative choices that I find incredibly problematic. I'm not

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I'm glad to see you agree with me! And that you saw glimpses of Sarai being great as well. She might not have been as subtle or coolly pragmatic as Dove (characteristics which Aly valued, because she herself was like that) but Sarai had passion *and* compassion, nor any illusions about the luarin nobility, and I can hardly see how a queen *wouldn't* benefit from those qualities. Sarai and Dove could have been a magnificent duo

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TC is slightly more enjoyable than TQ, but yeah, those books are too problematic for me to really root for Aly and Dove the way I do Tammy's other female protagonists.

it would've been nice to see her as the queen and Dove as the Cunning One from the prophecy.

Ooh, I like this so much! And I think you should write this AU! Seriously, I totally encourage you to tackle this, if you're looking for a plot bunny. It would be great to see Dove as the clever, cunning, invisible adviser to Sarai the beautiful, beloved, public figure. It could be about those who love freedom, raka and luarin, fighting for a new regime that embraced equality and justice and diversity, rather than simply pitting race against race. It would be fantastic!