Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Alanna: The First Adventure is, indeed, the first volume of well-known fantasy author Tamora Pierce’s four-book series THE SONG OF THE LIONESS. First published back in the 1980s, the quartet was remarkable in many ways, tackling issues like gender roles, cultural tensions, self-determination, and inherited versus achieved power. Written at a time when “young adult” didn’t exist as a genre and feisty teenage girls couldn’t find much positive representation in mainstream fantasy, the series laid out many of the familiar paths and tropes of what has become modern YA fantasy.
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Ana and Din are such marvelous characters. Beyond all the other strengths of the novels, it is their relationship that…
Well, now I want to read The Stardust Thief and then this one! Two more on the TBR Tower---*thanks*, Bill!
I think it comes from reading a lot of mysteries and heist novels! It didn't detract from my reading pleasure…
Thanks! These are the "easy" ones, ha!
can't wait to get to these after the usual post-end-of-term review backlog gets a little cleared up--your review and David's…