A review by declaired
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

5.0

This is not the book that got me into reading, but it is the book I picked up from my grandmother's house at age 9, left there by some other cousin, and read 3 times in a trip, and enkindled a great deal of my ongoing personal aesthetic.

2017
"One slip an' he warns ye. Two, an' he takes an ear—fer his collection. Three mistakes…He takes t'other ear an' all that's attached. George likes things done right."