by Tamora Pierce
Aly is the daughter of Tortall's spymaster and King's Champion. She has picked up everything she'd ever need in the spying field--lockpicking, lipreading, the ability to put things back into a room exactly where they were... yet her father, the spymaster, will not let her go into the field. It's too risky, he claims, so Aly takes matters into her own hands. She decides to go on her own little adventure, but gets captured by slavers. By some twist of fate, Kyprioth, the trickster god, takes her under his wing and assigns her a task: to keep a particular family of nobles alive for the summer. Not too hard, right? It just so happens that this particular family has somehow gotten on the bad side of the current reigning king, who (as everybody knows) isn't exactly right in the head.
Once the summer is up and Aly can return to her family, she is too attached to the place to leave and carries on with her task. She has a group of crows that serve as messengers, and a secret network of spies that are spread all over.
Everything ends happily, but I shan't ruin it for you readers by telling you what happens... just go read it yourself.
I really enjoyed these two books. They were good reads, well worth the time I put into them (though the measure of time itself isn't very large). I highly recommend them to anyone else who likes Tamora Pierce.
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