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Summary: This series started out so well
Review: The first two series was so good. I especially liked the second, where things got more romantic, and I really enjoyed Tamora Pierce's humorous edge. However, in this book, she totally changed the personality of Jonathan to make him arrogant and pigheaded (on purpose) so Alanna would go to George. I also dislike how Alanna's character evolved in this series, notably in this book and the fourth book. She goes back on almost all her previous beliefs that made her so original. Now she just seems to have a lack of morals and sleeps with George and later, the Dragon. Also, her personality, which was so charming before, makes her seem so annoying now. I find this book a very disappointing sequel to In the Hand of the Goddess, which is an excellent read.
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Summary: good read
Review: Although I didn't like this book quite as much as the previous one, it was still good. In this books, Alanna ends up becoming the first female shaman of one of the desert tribes after she kills their original shaman in self defense. Prince Jonathan comes to the tribe because there's a way to make all the desert tribes follow him when it's his time to rule. Although I still love reading about Alanna and she's still the strong, take-charage character I enjoyed from the beginning, I felt she became too much of a sorceress in this book. It was an interesting side of Alanna, and I enjoyed the book's plot, but I missed the Alanna from previous books, who used magic only when she really had to.
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Summary: The Dragon Lady
Review: What a shame. The author created a story with so much potential and just threw it into the trash. It was a great idea, to make a woman knight, but the heroine that started out so strong and likable turned into a person with low morals that jumps from one man's bed to another. What sort of heroine is that?
This series started out so well. The first book was great, and kept you at the edge of your seat. But in the second book, she started to sleep with men, and in this one it only got worse. I'm sorry that it did.
The story, apart from the dissapointing romance, was quite good. I enjoyed reading about the Bazuir ( yes, I know I didn't spell it right ) .
I'm sorry to say that because of the HEROINES bed-hopping that I can only rate this book 2 stars out of 5.
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Summary: Not my favorite.
Review: I love the Tamora Pierce books. I think Pierce is an awesome writer but compared to some of her other stuff this book is a flop. I thought it was boring from cover to cover. She spent most of the time in the desert, thinking how to sort out her problems. It had alot of character growth and you won't understand the fourth (my favorite) withought reading it. It lacked the action and the feeling that makes you want to keep on reading that the other Alanna books had. In conclusion, still good, but way not as good as Tamora's others.
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Summary: Not as strong as the first two
Review: I found "The Woman Who Rides Like a Man" to be a weaker story than in the previous books. I loved the first two, but thought that this was wasn't as interesting. Don't get me wrong--I love it just as much as the others. I still would recommend this quartet to anyone, and found many parts of this book to be exciting. I loved how she brought back many old characters, as well as introducing new ones. The Bahzir culture is also very interesting to learn about. It takes a couple reads before you fully appreciate this book. I recommend you give it a chance, regardless of the tiny 'flaws'.
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Summary: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Review: This is a fantabulous book, 3rd of the Song of the Lioness series. I found that this was though not as good as the rest, a still excellent book. Alanna goes into the desert and lives with the Bazhir. She has to earn her way into society and ends up training three young gifted ones. This book contains some of the old characters, Coram, Jon, George but also introduces Claw-a rival to the King of Thieves(george). I liked this book because I felt it was great that Alanna didn't stand nonsense from anyone, not even Prince Jon. This was a great book, highly recommended!
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Summary: Alanna . The first adventure: By Tamora Perice
Review: I absoulty LOVE Tamora Perice's work! I was turned onto her books a my summer camp, and I haven't been able to stop reading them since! I can't wait until Lady Knight comes out!!!!!! I have read the whole Alanna series, the whole Daine/Wild Magic series, and all of the published books in the Protector of the small series, every one of them 7-10 times each! i Love them! And i love how Mrs. Perice promotes 'girl power' it's very interesting. And i especially like how all of the Main character's find love, like Alanna & Jon, then Alanna and George, then Alanna and Liam, then Alanna and George AGAIN! lol. and then there's Daine and Numair. but i especially love how Kel, and Cleon get together. I think that all of Tamora Perice's work in absoutly amazing!
~Alee H. B.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book was great. It was rich and detailed. The story flows really well. A great book in a great series.
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Summary: Good book, but I've got some problems...
Review: The first book of this series is the only one I've truly truly enjoyed ot be honest so far-the second was a bit shocking. But the third-well, lemme start at the beginning.Alanna spends much of her times fighting a recessive string of battles-they seem to lap over one another and it gets little unending after awhile. In a shortening: It gets BORING folks. I enjoyed the Bazhir-they reminded me of India and the Middle East combined. But I did get a little tired of the continual spew of Alanna beng so worried that Koureem and Kara didn't take off thier viels-it's their culture. And Alanna has no respect for that. I found this a little rude of her.
Alanna, also changed in a totally un-likable way. So she sleeps with Jon and says she loves him but doesn't want to marry him? First of all, I DO NOT under any circumstances belive in sex before marriage. (refer to the Ten Commandments if you have a problem with what I am saying)And then she acts like a baby (I think) when she finds out that he's going with Josaine now. Of she doesn't want to marry him, why does she care?
I personally like George. He's not so scoffing and rude to Alanna- (even though she deserves it sometimes) and he loves her even though she is going with Jon for so long-but I think he deserves someone better than Alanna.
I find Alanna to be a bit immoral-she's a good fighter. She's relatively nice. She is a good teacher. She's good at magic...but she is a bit of a spoiled brat too. She's not a role model, or someone I'd look up to. I'm not really liking these books that much-I like The Immortals better.
The book was okay overall, but like all of the Pierce books I've read, they always have major flaws. If you're looking for a great book, read Pierce, but after you read the masters. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman and Brian Jacques. Then you'll see why these books aren't so great. They seem to act as a lesson more than a teacher-if you get my meaning. They just advise you on how NOT to go about telling a good story...
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Summary: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Review: This is a very well written book, which explains in depth Alanna's first year as a knight of Tortall. It is best if read after the first two books in the quartet. In this book, you discover more of Alanna and George than you do in the first two books, where she hids her [gender] from all but a few. A good book, that you will not be able to put down and a must read for any Tamora Pierce fan.
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