With a country still getting used to the fact that women can take arms–and are tremendously good at it–Kel has her work cut out for her. The story within follows the adventures of Keladry of Mindelan, the first noble girl to undertake knighthood training without having to hide her identity in over a hundred years (but the rule prohibiting women from becoming knights have since been rebuked after it was revealed that the knighted Sir Alanna–who had posed as a boy–was in fact female). The Protector of the Smallseries encompasses four books: First Test, Page, Squire, and Lady Knight. In the case of her fantasy world of Tortall, the chronological order of writing style development went from Alanna, to Daine, and then to Kel, whose story was the only one I had yet to be familiarized with in full (while I haven’t technically read Trickster’s Queen, I don’t count that, because I’d looked up the story).
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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