Lioness Rampant

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Summary: THE GREATEST BOOK SERIES EVER WRITTEN!!!Alanna is Great!
Review: This book was the conclusion to the Alanna series. Alanna is a knight and is off to seek the precious Dominion Jewel so she can help her Prince. On her trip she meets the Shang Dragon. She takes lessons from him which later help win a small war. On her way back to Tortall she encounters a beautiful (most beautiful in world) Princess who is now an Exile and thinking she would be a better Queen to Jon than she would(she and Jon had been lovers and he had popped the question)she brings her and her guard to the palace, she also encounters her old friend Sir Roul who was sent to get Alanna. When she reaches the palace she finds her twin brother Lord Thom and Duke Roger(she had killed Roger in the second book)........

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Summary: Another Alanna Adventure!
Review: At last Alanna's got something to do!With her man-at-arms Coram in tow, she is in Barat getting an old map translated. When told its path might intrest her, she's off! In her travels to find the Dominion Jewel, the object which the map spoke of, she meets up with a princess on the run and her fiercely protective guard, the Shang Dragon(the most dangerous thing on two feet), her patron,The Great Mother Goddess,and a huge host of thieves! Back at home, however, things are not so hot for the royal family, including George Cooper, Alanna's lover and King of the Thieves, who is having loyalty problems. AND, even though that rat Roger is back, things work out all right in the end, if a little unfair for Alanna.

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Summary: Exciting and it kept me on the edge of my seat.
Review: I found the book riveting and I love the twist of romance.I cried at the end of the book. Tamora dramatically showed how Alanna never flenched even though her loss was great. Though most of the book wasn't sad. The book was action packed with fights of magic and swords. Alanna goes from the harsh desert winds to the crowds of the Tortallian court. Tamora's wonderful description really improves the novel. Tamora Pierce really knows how to "hook" people onto the book, I couldn't put it down! I definately give this book two thumbs up, and a toe. I was seriously disturbed at the fact that no ordinary bookstore carries her books. Tamora's unique style of writing inspired me to write my own novels. I am thirteen years old and I am on page eighty-seven of my first book, I think she helped. I recomend this book to all of my friends and family. Now I am recomending it to everyone on the internet, and beyond

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Summary: People
Review: Alanna was meant to be with Geogre not Jon. it is shown from the beginning of the series. she was never going to be a leader. it was clear. she needed someone to follow in the end. she wants to explore but as a queen it would drag her down.
Geogre is there as a friend and slowly progresses. Geogre would be the only one to deal with her temper as Jon would run of - look at 'Woman who rides like a man'.
AS A TEENAGER i personally feel (as well as a school survy - Lily) that the marriage between Alanna and Geogre was great and unexpecting. Alanna has been his love for yrs and finally they have come together. as us teens get emotionally attached to a charactor i feel that Ms Pierce as ended the series extremely well and i hope to see the loving couple pop up somewhere else.

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Summary: Goegre is the Right One !!!
Review: The plot of this story was alright. The adventures and battles that Alanna faces are just as wonderfully exciting as in the first and second books. But there is so much more to the book, a torn romance. I am an emotional person, when I read I don't just read, I experience. I felt Alanna's confusion and akwardness in the first book, her burning passion in the second, and her thrive for adventure in the third, but in the fourth I would have felt the same as if she died. I would of felt even better in fact, If she died, as long as she died loving John. Tamora Pierce made obstacles in Jon and Alanna's relationship, as most authors do, but this time she went too far. Alanna's marriage to George was just not meant to be. Tamora Pierce over estimated how much us teens (the majority of her readers) could bare emotionaly. Children will forget, adults will get over it, but teens attach themselves to a character and feel a swarm of depression when it does not turn out right. And let me tell you, knowing that you can not fix what has to be because Alanna is a fictional character, leaves you with a disgusting frustration that lasts a life-time.

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Summary: The Bottom Line: Alanna should not have picked George
Review: Alanna does not belong with George, she belongs with some completely other character or Jon. Jon was her first love and i can't believe that all her love went away just because of one stupid fight they had in the desert.

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Summary: Lioness Rampant
Review: The last book in Alanna's series, this is yet another wonderful book. Here Alanna sets out on a quest to find something no one really even believes exists and in doing so becomes a legend.

Sir Alanna of Trebond is the only female knight in the entire realm of Tortall. Restless after finally winning her shield, Alanna sets out to find the Dominion Jewel, a legendary magic stone with limitless power. On her way there she meets the Shang Dragon, Liam Ironarm. She is offset by his way with her, but is still quite attracted to him. Liam decides to go with Alanna and Coram on their quest, and they begin an affair. As well, on the way they meet the former Princess Thayet and her Kmiri guard, Buri. These two also join the search for the Jewel. Liam's fear of magic causes he and Alanna to break up. Alanna feels she must find this jewel, but she also cannot shake off the sense that she needs to get home. After dueling with the element that guards the Jewel and winning, Alanna returns to her country to find that Duke Roger has returned from the dead-at the hands of her own brother, Thom! The Duke pretends to have repented, but Alanna still senses that he is up to no good-and that he wants Jonathon's throne as badly as ever. A Crossroad in Time is approaching, this time when not even the gods have the power to intervene. Will Alanna have the power and magic to prevent Tortall from literally falling apart? Will she be able to bend FATE to her will?

In this concluding verse of the Song of the Lioness Quartet, Alanna proves just how strong and wonderful she truly is. Intense, romantic, and an immensely satisfying end to Alanna's series.