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Summary: Good Book, but leaves loose ends
Review: Lady Knight, the fourth book in the Protector of the Small, follows Kel as she goes to war with Scanra in the North. She gets assigned to protect refugees at a refugee camp. In the beginning she feels this is a petty assignment. By the end of the book she is happy with the assignment. This book by itself was very good. I enoyed it a lot. But in the sceme of things, I find that it wasn't enough of a conclusion for all of the other 3 books. It left too many loose ends hanging. But it was still a good book.
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Summary: Not up to her usual standards...(sigh)
Review: Tamora Perices fourth book of the Protector of the small series. Awaited by many! It is a letdown though. All it talkes about is her Knight dutys and war. The best part of the 401 page book is the EPILOGUE! It has none of Tamora Perices usual carm in her characters personal life...very disappointing.
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Summary: Disapointing
Review: I've been waiting for months for this book to come out. So I was disapointed to see the results. The book wasn't bad, but it was not as good as the rest of the series. Things didn't go as I had hoped with Cleon. There wasn't enough romance ether. And the book ended too fast. Don't get me wrong, the book was still good. Kel saved many lives and she finaly got to command. I just exspected better.
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Summary: Amazeing --- as per Pierces usual
Review: Lady Knight, the conclusion to The Protector of the Small series was one of the best books iv read. Its a gripping tale of adventure and excitement. Kels friends never cease to Amaze me in their loyalty, while Kels growing knoweldge as a commander is inspiring. Its a great book that every Tamora Pierce fan should read, as well as all fanasy lovers. The characters grow on you and kels friends become your friends. As always, Tamora Pierce's books are some of the best on the market.
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Summary: Pierce Comes Back Strong
Review: After a shaky "Squire" with exaggerated romance and several poor dialogues, Lady Knight is a refreshingly good book. The plot begins as war with the Sancrans is finally heating up, and Kel is sent to the border. However, her dreams of fighting gloriously are dashed when she is put in command of an enormous refugee and convict camp. Things are complicated by an indentured servant Kel purchases, as well as all of her friends from this series and several from others. The realistic challenges that Kel faces offer us all a lesson in command and tolerance. Although this book is very long, it will not deter most fans of Kel and of other Pierce books. Overall, it is engrossing, and reads very quickly. This book is recomended to all Pierce fans or those looking for good books for young girls.
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Summary: More Like Four and a Half....
Review: I was really looking forward to Pierce's new book a long time before it hit the shelves. When I picked it up on August 24, I had plans of starting it immiediately after I got home. 'Lady Knight,' the fourth installment in the Protector of the Small quartet, follows Keladry of Mindelan, now eighteen and fresh out of her training for knighthood, through her first adventure as a knight of the realm of Tortall. I was pleased that the final book did not forget the supporting characters we fell in love with in the earlier books (Neal in particular) and kept them as an important part of the story. The story chronicles the bulk of Tortall's war with Scanra, the nation bordering it to the north. Kel and her friends are assigned to a position that mainly involves keeping civilian refugees as safe as possible from harm, especially at the hands of the montrous killing machines manufactured by a virtually unknown mage for the army of Scanra. Though the book was fantastic, I did not put five stars on my review because I felt ther was something missing. Perhaps I felt that in the final book, Kel should have a somewhat defined love interest. And even though Pierce hinted slightly at Sergeant Domitan, it didn't seen to be enough for me. But all in all, 'Lady Knight' is a fine conclusion to the brilliant quartet, filled with humor, emotion, and of course, lots of adventure. I believe at the end of the story, many will join me in waiting hopefully for another tale of Tortall, so we can fall in love with new characters, and have a great time with the old ones as well.
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Summary: A great book....until the end!
Review: I thought this book was a perfect finish to the series...except for the very last chapter. (there are SPOILERS ahead, so don't read on if you don't want to know what happens at the end) So, Kel enters the very chamber that she's dreaded...the chamber where the giant metal monsters are made. So, I'm thinking, "At last!! The climax of the book!" So, the mage turns himself invisible, but luckily Kel has her griffin feather band and she kills him. Just like that!! There was no suspenseful fight or even much suspenseful dialogue. I know being a mage, fighting's probably not his forte, but still... Other than that letdown, the book was a great one. I know some people don't like Kel, but I really admire how hard she works and how she values other people who have good values, be they commoners or nobles. I also liked how she didn't follow the trends of Alanna and Daine and get a guy in the end. I guess that's life...it made her charachter all the more realisitic. Although, I am sort of hoping she and Dom will get together in other books that take place in Tortall. *crosses fingers* Happy reading!
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Summary: The best Quartet
Review: fine, the ending got to me a little. I was dissapointed cause i wanted more ending. But it was my favorite quartet of TP and i loved it! I was also dissapointed Neal was betrothed to Yukimi. He and Kel are so better off together. But Dom's okay i guess. he is neal's cousin, after all. I was left gloomy after reading all four books cuz i wanted more and felt like i was losing my friends when i didn't hav any more to read about kel. So i hope in trickster's choice, the book about alianne, alanna's daughter, which sounds like alien and is sort of a stupid name, they hav kel and neal in there. they're my favorite characters in the quartet! this book has great action when kel, finally a knight, gets sort of a task from the chamber of the ordeal and is left to command a refugee camp. SHe teaches the civilians to fight and when she leaves to visit sir wyldon, she finds out the camp has been attacked! Although wyldon commanded otherwise, she left the squads on her own to take back her refugees who were kidnapped to be fed to evil metal killing machines a mage named Blayce was making. Her friends join, wanting to help her rather than save their shield as what they were doing was basically treason. So they head onto Scanra where war takes place to get back the children, that was what they spent eight years training for! Grate!!!! wonderful book, i luuuuuvved it!!!
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Summary: Wierd
Review: I don't get it why Kel dosen't have an inch of magic when Alanna and Daine have it. Daine is a Wilmage. Alanna is in the hand of the Goddess and has the healing gift.
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Summary: Perfect, except for . . .
Review: I first met Tamora Pierce while visiting my daughter's family in another state. I wanted something to read and my granddaughter loaned me the first book in The Circle of Magic. When I got home I bought the whole set. When Ms. Pierce showed up in by book club with her adventures in Tortall I promptly purchased them. They were equally captivating. I am a Christian and there were a couple of things that bothered me. I can accept the pagan view of multiple gods as a story hook with no problem. I have no trouble with, and in fact relish, the fantasy aspects of "gifts" and magical abilities. It was some of the things that our culture accepts as okay in real life that the Bible calls a sin that I was sorry to see in these books. Teenage girls don't need to jump in bed, or desire to jump in bed, with their current love to make the story better, even if it is "off screen." The unnatural attraction between same gender people also isn't necessary to the story line. Lastly, some young readers have tender hearts and could be disturbed by the mental image of the slaughter of children and babies to further the evil plans of the evil mage. Can you even imagine what it would be like if an entire village had all of their children stolen from them and killed? Reality has really bad things happen all the time. Couldn't fantasy be more fantastic?
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