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Summary: Not as good as the first two
Review: The third book in The Song of the Lioness Quartet starts with Alanna joining a desert tribe know as the Bazhir. When the tribe is left without a magician Alanna must train a new one before she can move on. Alanna's personal life also heats up when Prince Jon asks her to marry him!I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first two. The Bazhir plot line, which took up most of the book, just didn't interest me. The book did become more enjoyable towards the end though. I'd recommend just skipping over this book but the last half is important to the rest of the series. Oh well, hardcore fans of this series will no doubt enjoy this otherwise, just suffer through it like I did.
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Summary: Not the Best Lioness Book, But VERY GOOD read!
Review: This book will enchant you and make you want to read more about Alanna. I will admit the plot is a little slow moving at times but I believe that this book was necessary so that Alanna could discover herself away from the palace. By far the most dramatic of the Lioness series, this book runs the gamut of emotions from remorseful to undecided to everything in between. Although the rest of the books are a little better , this book is still a captivating read, and is perfect for any fan of the Lioness or Tamora Pierce. I won't go into depth about the plot here, because plenty of the other reviews do that , including the one by Amazon. Overall, a GREAT read! Thumbs up!
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Summary: Not very good
Review: This book is really boring. I like every other book but not this one. I read it in 4 days pretty much to get over it and get on to lioness rampant. Alanna and Jons fight was horrible. i fell in love with her other books( i've read all the tortall books). So get through it quickly
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Summary: Attention all readers! Throw this book in the trashcan!
Review: This book is not worth the money paid for it. It praises low standards and tells you that is all right to be a...The Bazhir are neat, but they could do with enforcing morales. Whatever happened to the girl we knew in the first book?
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Summary: horrible
Review: I HATED THIS BOOK! Sorry, I just did. What happened to the sweet, strong, lovable character from the first book? Alanna is a total ... in this book. She sleeps with way to many men. Isn't that a bit excessive? I think there is a difference between "grrowing up" and sleeping with two different guys in the same month. Give me a break. If you are a all like me AVOID THIS BOOK IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. If not, well, okay, but...
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Summary: READ IT
Review: I have read a lot of reviews that say that Alanna turns into a [...] in this book.
NO WAY.
Alanna is growing up, folks. I should know. There is a time in everyone's life when they seem to become a lot more petty and selfish, but that is just to cover up the fact that they feel lost and alone.
Alanna is realizing that perhaps she and Jon aren't a match made in heaven. She sees that because she is not Jon's equal, she can't be his wife, because he needs an equal. She is confused when she learns this, and tries to find herself. She's also trying to come to terms with a part of herself that she has long denied--her magic.
I'll admit, she's selfish. Even Faithful says so. But hey--isn't everyone sometimes?
And by the way, the whole affair with George thing--it worked, in my opinion. He loves her, even when she's at her lowest. I think this could be the real reason Ms. Peirce made them have an affair. Jon turns his back on her when she's feeling terrible, but George is always there. He loves her, and treats her like an equal.
All in all, THE WOMAN WHO RIDES LIKE A MAN is a good book. Not as good as the other three, but you can't very well skip it. At least, not if you're a true Pierce fan.
One last note--George is exactly seven years older than her. Remember in the first book? He says he's seventeen, and she's ten.
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Summary: What to say.................
Review: This book was fairly good book, but there were some parts....One thing, it's a good thing Mrs.Cooper gave her that charm against pregnancy, otherwise she have a kid in this book. Like someone who wrote a review before me said 'I do not believe in sex before marriage. Not only does Ms. Pierce mention that Jon and Alanna 'Made love' but she then mentions that she and someone else do too. I would NOT suggest this book for anyone under 12. If you are under 12, then I suggest that you read the immortals series. They're more toned down. (exept maybe the 4th book, but it's not that bad.)
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Summary: A Good Series and Yet a Disapointing book
Review: In the begining of the book Alanna is attacked by hill men who plan on killing her and Coram and stealing all of their posesions. But then the tribe The Bloody Hawk chase away the hill men but then declare Alanna is truspassing on thier property and declare Alanna must fight a duel. Alanna does win the duel and is excepted into the tribe but is then faced with more problems. The tribe's Shaman is convinced Alanna is a demon and tries to kill her in a duel but in turn Alanna kills him. Now Alanna is the new shaman and the first girl shamon and if she ever wants to leave the Bloody Hawk tribe she must trane three new shamons two of which are girls. I realy loved the first and seccond book in the Alanna series but i very disapointed when I read this. I also found that there was a serius lack of action and a great deal of talking in this book. I also missed the characters Gary and Raul, i just thought they were so fun to read about. I realy thought Jon was the guy Alannashould marry. In the first two books he was a great companion and seemed to realy care for Alanna. But in this book he's just a jerk. He's rude, selfish, and a spoiled brat. The great thing about this series is that Alanna isn't afraid to be a tomboy and a warrior and do all the things guys can do but in this book she wants to be a type of girl that cars about how she looks and how she wears her hair every day and that realy disapointed me.
The one thing i realy like in this book however was the new landscape in which this book was placed. I thought it was realy interesting how the land scape instead of being a area with a lot of woods was a desert.
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Summary: *~Best So Far*~
Review: Although many people say that this is the worst book of the series, I highly disagree; In my opinion it was the best! I always liked George, and when Alanna picked him over Jon, I was thrilled!!! Alanna grew and developed in this book into the strong warrior she always wanted to be. Alanna also grew to love and cherish "the gift" she was so scared of in the other books. This is a must read book and I recommend it to anyone, and everyone!
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Summary: Not as good as the other two
Review: This series started out really strong, but I didn't think that there was the same kind of humour and spirit as the first two books. Alanna seemed to grow more bitter and less interesting. George and Jonathan only became stereotypes of their former characters. I loved the first two, but I would not recommend reading this. It spoils the series somewhat.
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