Protector of the Small: Lady Knight

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Summary: Lady Knight Is one of the best book I have ever read.
Review: Don't think I'm giving this one star because I hate fantasy or Tamora Pierce. (i love fantasy, which is why I spent around 20 dollars buying it) I loved Squire, and read it many times, and was eager to read this book just like a amazon shopper, but after the first few chapters and the story stops moving I began to have my doubts. First of all I thought Tamora pierce thought towards the end oh no this isn't going any where I need kel to do something the readers will love: I'll have her try to save all the "small/poor" people in a dangerous land, but I'll just have them all hanged, and when kel fights the bad guy, who I forgot to develop, her friends will be there for her. O i guess i forgot to have Kel get together with someone and that was what I was best at, oh well I'll let the readers know she might get together with Dom.

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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: Beautiful!
Review: I am a veteran of the Tortall series and this superb edition is one of the finest yet. This book flows smoothly through the pages in perfect harmony and the use of magic and sword is marvelous. The story goes with the beginning starting as a small intro to the main character, Keladry, who is recently having nightmares. After a scene with the Chamber of Ordeal she and a group of others are summoned to a fort where Keladry is assigned to look after refugees. The story goes on with her having to leave and going to report to her Lord Wyldon, but while away the enemy lead a devestating attack against her post and takes the refugees as prisoners. Keladry is furious and gives two men the slip to search for her people, two groups head after her and help along the way. In the end Keladry succeeds in her task and heads home.

I would, however suggest that the reader reads the Lioness quartet first and then the Immortals before reading Protecter of of the Small series. It is an outstanding series and a very good book.

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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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Summary: A bit of a let-down
Review: I have to say, this quartet doesn't at all match up with the rest of Tamora Pierce's. This is my least favourite book of hers so far. The usual *spark* just isn't there...basically the whole book is about Kel's days as a knight and her leadership over Haven, the fort that she has been assigned to run. When disaster strikes, she goes to the rescue. She and Cleon split up, and she never does get together with anyone else...I was rooting for Dom, lol. Anyways, if you've read the other 3 Protector of the Small books, you should read this one just to finish it off, but don't expect anything great.

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Summary: needs a betta ending!
Review: I loved this book but the romance level of zero upset me. I never thought that Kel loved Cleon. He was just the first guy 2 show interest in her. Cleons was too silly about love 2 actually b in love i think. Dom seems just right. Watever Kel lacks he makes up 4, and visa-versa. He is like Neal, but there are some differences in them that makes me able 2 c Dom and Kel together but not Kel and Neal, hes perfect as her frend. Another book should b written bout kel and dom. it wood b bad 2 hear about them in the back round because i want 2 c how they act alone 2getha and stuff. If those kind of scenes wer put in the next tortallan books i gess iot wood b kk but no as good. if ur readin this mrs. pierce please write anotha story about Keladry! any1 can email me @ chinchillacraze2

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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: Lady Knight
Review: The fourth and last book of Kel's series, Lady Knight, details Kel's early days as a knight and commander of Haven. In this book, Kel is once again forced to prove herself-not against conservatives this time, but against the Scanrans.

Kel has been assigned as the commander of a refugee camp called Haven during the Scanran War. Besides the troubles of keeping the camp safe and under control, Kel keeps getting visions from the Chamber of Ordeal, visions of the horrible necromancer behind the killing machines that constantly besiege Tortall. She is torn between her duty to Haven and her knowledge that she MUST find the necromancer-she could hold the only card that will turn the war around, but she is stuck at her post. What will she decide? And, once she does, will she be able to carry it through without getting herself and her friends killed?

This is possibly the most suspenseful of the entire series. Frightening but also amazing, this book is a must-have. Fans of both Kel and Pierce will be delighted to see the direction Kel's life takes in this final book of the Protector of the Small Quartet.