While the Song of the Lioness quartet will always remain my personal favorite of her Tortallan series (and she’s written more outside the realm of Tortall, which I still have to get to), there is no denying that her writing has evolved through later novels, and, subsequently, through later characters. This is a pretty big deal, especially during the ’80s, where Alanna had first been published. Pierce, a brief overview: Tamora Pierce has written several fantasy novels about kickass females and males–but mostly about kickass females. The review is also kind of biased because anyone who’s seen my Goodreads favorites and those who’ve known me long enough know that Tamora Pierce is my favorite author EVER. I grew up with the Tortallan books, and Alanna: The First Adventure was one of two books that made me decide early on that I loved the reading and writing of fantasy (the other book was The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley).įor those not familiar with Ms. For good reason, because I’d meant to re-read First Test (Book #1) and read the other three to fully complete the goal. A little different from my last few 25 reads, because this one actually got lumped in together into the quartet series.
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