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Tamora Pierce

Great Book: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

Posted: August 13, 2018

This series of posts are about entertainment that I recommend when people ask me for recommendations. It also includes place-specific “entertainment”, such as beautiful gardens; it might be stretching the definition of entertainment, but I enjoy myself in the places I recommend.

They are not universal recommendations. I wouldn’t recommend a dark thriller to someone looking for something nice and happy; I’d recommend a romance.

They aren’t perfect or without mistakes.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. ~ Leonard da Vinci

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

When I decided I wanted to do this series, I always knew what the first post would be.

Once a upon a time, when I was a little girl, I found reading boring. It was hard work and not fun at all.

Until…

I picked up Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce on one of the regular school visits to a library.

I was eleven years old and after reading that book, I’ve been a reader and later it lead me down the writing path.

Alanna was great, both the character and the book. It is a young adult book, at least that is where I would put it, especially with the later books seeing Alanna go from 10-11 years old to 18+. (The series is called Song of the Lioness.)

I loved the book because it fulfilled my biggest fantasies at that age: being a knight in training (aka a page), a girl, and having great magic.

I don’t want to spoil the books even though they are decades old. Let’s just say as the series goes on, it fulfilled more fantasies and went in direction I didn’t expect.

This isn’t Tamora Pierce’s best book (or series) in my opinion, but it was the book that made me a reader, so how could I not love it?

I’ve reread it many times. I read a lot of Tamora Pierce’s work and I’ll feature more of them in this series in the future.

If you like to read fantasy, like empowered girls/women, and like knights, castles, some fighting, magic, and adventure, this is a book for you.

Also, the rest of the series is also great; the fourth book is my favorite, but it is best when read after reading the first three.

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