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A review by stefhyena
Young Warriors: Stories of Strength by Tamora Pierce
adventurous
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Some of the stories in this collection glowed more than others, but overall this was depressingly conservative, and in one story even reactionary. Maybe I would have liked them back in 2006. Tamora Pierce herself writes one of the better stories and attaches it to her Tortall stories, responding to a query she apparently gets from fans a lot. Margaret Mahy was another of the good ones.
If you feel like a low demand, low commitment read this is interesting enough, but I felt that some of the portrayal of cultures not the authors' while probably well intentioned were exoticising (including the one that I think was meant to be Aboriginal) and I had to remind myself that in 2005 some authors were trying their best with this sort of thing and possibly helped spark the conversations that have taken us further.
Not only having European based fantasy was good though.
If you feel like a low demand, low commitment read this is interesting enough, but I felt that some of the portrayal of cultures not the authors' while probably well intentioned were exoticising (including the one that I think was meant to be Aboriginal) and I had to remind myself that in 2005 some authors were trying their best with this sort of thing and possibly helped spark the conversations that have taken us further.
Not only having European based fantasy was good though.