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Summary: Addicting!
Review: Okay, who says marijuana is addicting? Well, this book is more addicting than that. When I had to put it down, for the whole day my head was thinking about what was going to happen. When I finished, I wondered what was going to happen in the next. It's great!Alanna doesnt want to be a lady, and her brother doesn't want to be a knight. So they switch places, and Alanna, newly name Alan fits in. Despite her visions of a Black City, she has fun, until she actually goes to it!!
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Summary: THIS BOOK RULES!
Review: I have read this book 15 times over, I loved it so much. This book introduces people to a world of magice and battle times like no other. It gives great description of the setting and characters. The series focuses on Alanna, the girl who must become a knight. She and Her brother trade positions so he can be a scorcerer and she a knight. Since no king would accept a female knight, Alanna pretends to be a boy. She has little knowledge of how hard it will be to go through woman hood as a man, so she is at a disadvantage. I hope you are able to get your hands on this wonderful book!
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Summary: The best book ever Besides others in it's series
Review: The best series I have ever read besides Harry Potter
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Summary: The Best Series Ever
Review: I loved this series! These are the best books I have ever read. I enjoyed reading these books so much that I finished them in about 24 hours! The books starts out when Alanna and her brother Thom switch places. Thom goes to the City of the Gods to become a mage and Alanna goes to the palace disguised as a boy to begin training as a knight of the realm. Alanna has trouble fitting in at first, but then she finds her place. She also becomes friends with the heir to the throne, Prince Jonathon (it turns out in the next book that they become more than just friends) I was so into the books, I imagined everything that took place! I would recomend these books to everyone and anyone. If you like this book I would suggest reading the Immortals series or the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.
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Summary: Terrific !!!
Review: The first book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet is great! The book starts off a bit slowly but if you read to about page 70 you will not want to put the book down. If you like the Harry Potter books than these are the books for you. Tamora Pierce has you hooked just as well as J.K. Rowling, though this book may appeal more to girls. Also if you are looking for a good magical fantasy you will love these books. They have all sorts of puzzling events, Magical happenings, and much more. This book is the coolest read!
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Summary: Such a GREAT book!
Review: This book was the first Tamora Peirce book I ever read. It is a great read and has EVERYTHING in it. Heaps of adventure! If you like this book or would like to play a Role Playing Game about the Lioness Quartet go to (web site name) It is a really good club and we need new people! From Kel
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Summary: An awsome and surprising read!
Review: O.K., usually I'm totally not the science fiction type! My sister was always trying to get me to read this book 'cause Tamora Pierce is her absolute favourite! I never would 'cause I was convinced I wouldn't like it! Finally one day I was really bored, so I started reading it, after I read like one page I couldn't put it down! and since then I've read all the books she's ever written, and LOVED them!!!!!!!!!!! I very highly recomend this book!!!!
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Summary: A Wonderful Book!!!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! Tamora Pierce is an excellent scene-setter, making vivid discriptions of the places that the hero, Alanna, goes to. Alanna is smuggled into the castle, helped by her friends, George, Coram, and Prince Jonathon. She has a hard time hiding her identity, because she is physically weaker than the others. She learns to fight and forge swords, and things are going great, when the prince's life is thrown into jeopordy. Can she she save the prince, free of discovery, before it's all to late? Set in the middle ages in Old Tortall, Alanna: the first adventure is a great read for all ages!
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Summary: Absolutely the BEST series of All Time!!!!!!
Review: Alanna is the all-time greatest heroine for girls. I read the series when I was 10 in the summer between 4th and 5th grade in 1991. I am an avid reader who (even now a college student) thinks of this series as the best I have ever read (although L.J. Smith, Mercedes Lackey, Terry Brooks, Ann MacCaffery, Patricia C. Wrede, Patricia McKillip, Phyllis Ann Karr, Tad Williams, and Mary Gentle, etc are very good but I still prefer this series as the top-probably because it was the first fantasy I ever read and got me to be a Sci-Fi/fantasy addict). The only regret is that now the new reprints do not have the lifelike pictures of the heroine I so adore. I find the new illustrations to look more cartoonish and makes the books seem unintelligent to me when I compare them to the set series I own. Maybe when it is reprinted again the better looking pictures will be used--since it is impossible to find all original covers under $80 (this is only one whole set I have discovered on an auction site-the first and fourth book are not even listed with originals).
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I really enjoy almost all fantasy books, and this was no exception. There was enough adventure to keep the book moving, and each character dealt with personal conflicts in addition to the wars and other problems plaguing their country of Tortall. The main problem with this book is that, as I said before, I'v read many fantasy books, and this was a VERY typical fantasy story. The brave character, fights the "bad guy" falls in love, etc. All is good at the end. Many of its characters, such as Alanna, were typical characters for a fantasy novel - brave, pretty, magical, blessed by the gods, etc. Still, she was a "fun" character, one who many people would enjoy reading about. While some of the characters seemed one-dimensional, there were some that enhanced the quality of the story. George Cooper, king of the rogues, was one of the best characters in the book. As for the other characters, they do develop through the rest of the series, just slowly. Overall, I would say that if you have read many fantasy novels, don't read this. There isn't really anything very new or original. However, if you are from 11-15, and this is one of your first fantasy books, it is a very good introduction to the world of imagination.
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