maxamaris 's review for:

Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce

5.0

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This really is the template. Wish I had read this as a youth, but I would have been made all the more obnoxious. I’ve read she wrote this to be adult fantasy but only succeeded selling it for kids and, while I’m happy this made it into the hands of so many future trans men, but it IS certainly one adult fantasy book, not a 4-book young adult/middle grade series.