Guest Blog!
(Brief back story for newish friends: Tamora Pierce was my entryway into fandom, and it's how I met at least a third of the people on my f'list. So that is why this is a MOMENTOUS OCCASION.)
So every now and then Little Miss Ten Whole Years (a.k.a my favorite person in the whole world) will sit down in front of my bookshelves, poke around the books, make a big pile of things that look interesting to her, and then ask if she can borrow them. The Tamora Pierce books have always really interested her, for obvious reasons. Girl knights! I mean, you cannot get much more viscerally awesome than girl knights. Since the SOTL series does have a fair amount of sexytimes in it, I have been resisting letting her read them. SHE IS JUST A BABY. Except not, so I finally caved, and she tore through them this past week. We were discussing WWRLM, and since she obviously had some STRONG FEELINGS about what was going on, I asked her to write a guest blog. She happily agreed, so here are her brief thoughts on the final two books in the series. I have edited them for paragraphs and basic errors, but that's it!
After finishing The Woman Who Rides Like a Man:
Hey, my name is [Little Miss Ten Whole Years], and I am reading Tamora Pierce. Right now I'm reading the third book in the Song of the Lioness series. My sister told me to write down my feelings about the books so far. Now, personally I think the books are unappropriate [sic] at parts for my age, but I really enjoy reading about Alanna. I think it's totally cool to read about a girl who is a knight.
I'm really mad about the part I'm at, though. You see, I'm at a part in the third book where Jonathan is being a real spoiled brat and totally takes advantage of Alanna. She's out brushing her horse Moonlight one morning, and Halef Seif comes by, and he asks Alanna if she is really going to be Jonathan's wife and live in his castle. Apparently Jonathan thinks (just after he asks her to marry him) that because she has not given him an answer about marriage she says yes!!!!! So he is having two women pack her things for her and some other person to prepare her horse for her!!!! What an absolute--never mind!!! So then he returns home to his little loser kingdom to find some milky-skinned blondie his mother is totally bribing him with!!! Man, I feel bad for her!!! But I'm happy for Alanna because she has George who is kind and does not take Alanna for granted or as a source of amusement.
But other than that, I'm really enjoying the books so far and have become a real fan of them. I am also glad Caitlin is letting me finish reading the series!
After finishing Lioness Rampant:
Hello, it's me again! I just finished the Alanna series!
I'm happy that Jonathan married Thayet so that way Jonathan can't be smug. Plus Thayet is very pretty and cool, and I also really like Buri. I think Buri is a lot like Alanna at that age. I am still really sad about Thom, though. He was really cool, and he helped Alanna get to the palace in Tortall, and he was her brother. The person I am most sad about is Faithful. Faithful was Alanna's life long companion! He was there through hard times and sad ones. He was there when Alanna was fighting. I never really liked Liam, though. The only thing that made it sad was when he wrote her the letter because he knew he was going to die.
Overall, I am happy for Alanna because she marries George. By the way, when you read this, get mad at my sister Caitlin. She spoiled me about Alanna getting married to George!
Now I am reading Wild Magic. Bye!!!!!!!
EDITOR'S NOTE: She is right, I did spoil her. It was a total accident. I was talking animatedly with my other sister about the Jon/Alanna/George triangle, and I commented about how I love George and George/Alanna now, but how I remember being so disappointed that Alanna married George when I was a kid. And she was right there, so that was stupid. Whoops? At least she was towards the end, so it's not like it wasn't obvious?
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