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A review by bookphile
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
3.0
With every passing year, this series does not age well.
The whole Yamani face still really stick out to me.
Also, Kel sort of publicly slut shames a woman for not choosing a suitor and causing a fight. Listen, if two men want to fight over a woman, that's on them. That woman is also later implied to be assaulted by the enemy soldiers. Which is ... not great.
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I don't know how many times I've re-read this series. It's by far my favorite out of all ones set in Tortall and it's the second that I read. The only things that irritated me were the over-explanation and wordiness. Although I don't know how much time passed between publication dates of the third book and the fourth book, I still don't think you should be reminding people about things that happened in the previous three books. I do understand the reasoning for it.
As I've said, this is my favorite series by Tamora Pierce. Kel is a great heroine, whose need for perfection is her biggest fault. But she's smart, brave, caring and extremely loyal to those she loves. I also love all of the supporting characters, Neal and Merric and Owen. Tobie was the new one and he's also great. The animals were kind of in the background here, but I guess it was because of the sweeping story line, so we didn't get to focus on the smaller details.
The whole Yamani face still really stick out to me.
Also, Kel sort of publicly slut shames a woman for not choosing a suitor and causing a fight. Listen, if two men want to fight over a woman, that's on them. That woman is also later implied to be assaulted by the enemy soldiers. Which is ... not great.
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I don't know how many times I've re-read this series. It's by far my favorite out of all ones set in Tortall and it's the second that I read. The only things that irritated me were the over-explanation and wordiness. Although I don't know how much time passed between publication dates of the third book and the fourth book, I still don't think you should be reminding people about things that happened in the previous three books. I do understand the reasoning for it.
As I've said, this is my favorite series by Tamora Pierce. Kel is a great heroine, whose need for perfection is her biggest fault. But she's smart, brave, caring and extremely loyal to those she loves. I also love all of the supporting characters, Neal and Merric and Owen. Tobie was the new one and he's also great. The animals were kind of in the background here, but I guess it was because of the sweeping story line, so we didn't get to focus on the smaller details.