Samantha

I really love Tamora Pierce's work and this book is the first of this quartet to slow down with the action. Way down. For Alanna's first year as a knight it feels like she didn't have much in the way of adventures, besides meeting the tribe and becoming their hero. The rest of the book she flopped her way through a love triangle. Not exactly the adventuring I was expecting.

This book is a quick, fun read, featuring a young troublemaker who gets a get-out-of-jail-free card from the British intelligence agency. He meets a cast of funny characters who aren't afraid to humble him and ground him by kicking his ass on a daily basis.

Would definitely suggest to anyone who wants a good chuckle and enjoys reading about kids being kids.

I liked the idea behind this book but personally felt that the main character wasn't very relatable and didn't have much reason to do the things that she did.
The ending was also disappointing to me, none of the book was shocking and the main villain also seemed inhumanly good at knowing exactly what the main character was going to do before she did it, but the book gave no reasoning for this.
Great ideas, average writing/execution.

I've read this book so many times and its still one of my absolute favorites.

very emotional read for me.