Alanna: The First Adventure is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce. Originally published in 1983, …
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5 stars
I am really enjoying this whole series (I'm on book 4). I only wish I'd read it as a young teen, when it could have helped me get over some of my negative feelings about growing up female.
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only …
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3 stars
I'm still reading this one, months after starting it and more months after getting it as part of a Humble Bundle. It's been slow going, but I'm not sure if it's the story, the writing, or me not being in the mood for a YA book. I don't know if I'll keep going with the series. Should I? I'm reading it on a Kindle; is it better as an audiobook?
"Rachel Morgan's come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She's …
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5 stars
It's always very satisfying when a series has an end that ties up all of the threads. Now that I know this series does that, I'm a lot more likely to recommend it to friends.
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with …
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2 stars
I was profoundly irritated by Rothfuss' treatment of women in book one. Enough so that I refused to pay for book two, though curiosity and some people's assurances did lead me to check it out from the library.
Book two is simultaneously a bit better and WAY worse. The badass fighter/teacher who is also a loving grandmother? Neat! The healer who talks about hard choices? Neat. But they don't really make up for pretty much every other woman being a sex object, in need of saving, or both.
Kvothe is still funny. The storytelling isn't nearly as tight and neat, but aside from a long, pointless, irritating dalliance in Fae, it does move along. I still wonder how we get from the end of this book to the beginning of the first, in only one more installment.
I am frustrated with myself for having any investment in this sexist Mary …
I was profoundly irritated by Rothfuss' treatment of women in book one. Enough so that I refused to pay for book two, though curiosity and some people's assurances did lead me to check it out from the library.
Book two is simultaneously a bit better and WAY worse. The badass fighter/teacher who is also a loving grandmother? Neat! The healer who talks about hard choices? Neat. But they don't really make up for pretty much every other woman being a sex object, in need of saving, or both.
Kvothe is still funny. The storytelling isn't nearly as tight and neat, but aside from a long, pointless, irritating dalliance in Fae, it does move along. I still wonder how we get from the end of this book to the beginning of the first, in only one more installment.
I am frustrated with myself for having any investment in this sexist Mary Sue character and his story, given how little space Rothfuss' world has for people like me.
It's not that this is a bad book; it's just really, really not my thing. It's very over the top arty in its language choices, and the ingenue is, kind of literally, a manic pixie dream girl.