2016 Challenges: Tamora Pierce Challenge hosted by Read Write Love 28!!

Hiya guys!

Aside from running around and being absolutely unbearably excited today because tonigth after work I'm going to the midnight release of THE FORCE AWAKENS and nothing could make this Star Wars massive geek happier, I'm continuing with my challenges for 2016 posts!

I discovered my love for the Tamora Pierce this year, because till October I had seen many people spreading their love for them but it was Gillian's post about the Tortall books that made me grab the Alanna Quartet for my Kindle and absolutely devour them! Then I re-read Alanna, The First Adventure for The Midnight Garden Classic & YA Readalong and when I was going to continue re-reading the other 3 books, Nori from Read Write Love 28 told me to wait!

As it happens she was plotting to host a very awesome challenge for 2016, the Tamora Pierce Challenge! HERE is Nori's post with the link to sign up for the challenge!

For the challenge my plan is to re-read the rest of the Alanna Quartet and then read all the rest of the Tortal universe books that I haven't read yet! I don't plan to re-read The Immortals Quartet for now, but who knows, it might change later in the year!

As for the rest of the challenges I've made a handy GoodReads list/shelf!

Have you read any Tamora Pierce books before? Do you want to join the challenge??

Friday Reads: Alanna, the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce for #tmgreadalong!!

Hello there guys!!

Happy Black Friday!! I hope you'll be safe & sound if you brave the crazy hoards of sale hunters. I plan to do some online shopping if at all, because finances are tight, no matter how tempting the sales are!

For this week's Friday Reads I'm featuring once again the corresponding book for this month's The Midnight Garden Readalong! I'm discovering and reading so many lovely YA & MG classics with this challenge and this time it was by fate and luck one of my rare re-reads, even made more rare since I had read the book for the first time only the previous month! ;)

 Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I'm finally getting to read these classics and I can totally understand why they are so beloved by some of my bloggy friends! I love Alanna and her fierceness!!

Re-reading this one for the Midnight Garden Readalong was quite a lot of fun, and once I finished it, I was ready to continue reading the whole series again.

Surprisingly enough my love for this book actually grew with the re-read. I still acknowledge that it's a bit of a raw book, not as perfectly polished or as flawlessly paced, and some odd transitions happen here and there. But I simply loved it again.

Alanna is both bold and strong and angry at the world for imposing her a role that she doesn't want to play, and resents and hates being a girl with all her might. That is one of those things that gave me pause on my first read, but this time... well, this time I know Alanna's journey and growth and I know how things change and progress, so I can understand her anger with her youth and ambition much better.

I must confess to have had bouts of the same "wanting to prove that I'm as good as any boy" at things myself or be pissed at my period for making me want to curl down with a blanket, so it was never hard to put myself in her place.

I loved how she worked very hard and tried very hard at mastering things that didn't came naturally to her and was always worried about the consequences of her actions, and very soon learnt that victories aren't as clear cut as you think they'll be, and you don't always feel like you'd think you would.

I loved the secondary characters, Raoul, Gary and specially Jon and George. I really liked seeing the noble boys learning about more than just their Code and their battles and broading their horizons!

One of the things that haven't change from the first read to this one is how odd it feels for Alanna's reaction to Roger of Comté, and how lil it is explained or explored other than to say how much she dislikes and then hates him on sight... It comes so out of the blue at first, and not even as a reaction from Alanna's magic to his feels like a satisfactory explanation...

All in all, I simply am a newly made fan of the series, and I'm itching to re-read the rest of the series again, and read more of the Tortall series! Hopefully soon!

Well deserved 3.5 to 4 stars to my introduction to Tortall!!



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