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A review by theknightswhosaybook
Briar's Book by Tamora Pierce
5.0
So, a quick applause for me finally reading this whole series? Thanks I'm proud too.
Anyway as you can see from the rating, I think this book was my favorite of the series (although that may just come from the sappiness of that ending. I definitely got emotional over them looking back of their year together of becoming mages and a family. But the whole book was very good!)
First of all, Briar's love and admiration for Rosethorn, come on. It's the cutest thing, he has so much respect for her and underneath all her prickliness she loves him too and no offense but I'm crying about it.
There was less of all the kids together since Briar was the very clear focus of the book (I know each kid has their own book, but not all of them have so tight a focus on that one kid as this one does), which was a shame, but we still got some good high quality Circle Time at the end so I was satisfied.
Also, the development of Crane from "that grumpy mean old man we don't like" to "the same grumpy mean old man but we sort of like him now" was truly great. It was reminiscent of what Tamora Pierce did with Yarrun in [b:Daja's Book|58894|Daja's Book (Circle of Magic, #3)|Tamora Pierce|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328860149s/58894.jpg|1171248], which was taking what might be a very cliché minor enemy character in any other book and making him a little more sympathetic and understandable. Also I'm all about the way Crane was forced to acknowledge how smart Tris is because that's my girl!!
But back to Briar I guess because it's his book? Says so in the title? I love how even though so much plot has passed between this book and the beginning, Tamora Pierce wasn't afraid of tacking all of Briar's development throughout the series in this one book. We see how his childhood on the streets affected him and how he has been struggling with whether he is Briar or Roach this entire time. Tris is still My Girl but Briar's great too.
Soooooo... I guess now I go figure out the spin off series?
(My reviews of Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, and Daja's Book.)
Anyway as you can see from the rating, I think this book was my favorite of the series (although that may just come from the sappiness of that ending. I definitely got emotional over them looking back of their year together of becoming mages and a family. But the whole book was very good!)
First of all, Briar's love and admiration for Rosethorn, come on. It's the cutest thing, he has so much respect for her and underneath all her prickliness she loves him too and no offense but I'm crying about it.
There was less of all the kids together since Briar was the very clear focus of the book (I know each kid has their own book, but not all of them have so tight a focus on that one kid as this one does), which was a shame, but we still got some good high quality Circle Time at the end so I was satisfied.
Also, the development of Crane from "that grumpy mean old man we don't like" to "the same grumpy mean old man but we sort of like him now" was truly great. It was reminiscent of what Tamora Pierce did with Yarrun in [b:Daja's Book|58894|Daja's Book (Circle of Magic, #3)|Tamora Pierce|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328860149s/58894.jpg|1171248], which was taking what might be a very cliché minor enemy character in any other book and making him a little more sympathetic and understandable. Also I'm all about the way Crane was forced to acknowledge how smart Tris is because that's my girl!!
But back to Briar I guess because it's his book? Says so in the title? I love how even though so much plot has passed between this book and the beginning, Tamora Pierce wasn't afraid of tacking all of Briar's development throughout the series in this one book. We see how his childhood on the streets affected him and how he has been struggling with whether he is Briar or Roach this entire time. Tris is still My Girl but Briar's great too.
Soooooo... I guess now I go figure out the spin off series?
(My reviews of Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, and Daja's Book.)