Book #91 of 2018:
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #4)
A solid but kind of unremarkable Tortall adventure. The Protector of the Small series is generally marketed as a quartet, but it honestly feels more like a cohesive trilogy followed by this somewhat vestigial afterthought. I’m not trying to be too negative here, because there isn’t anything particularly bad about this novel, and it even offers the sort of dramatic stakes that I’ve often found wanting in its predecessors. But the major plot arcs and themes of this series come to a natural conclusion at the end of the third book, and it never quite feels as though this final volume is motivated by anything new to say about its main character or any lingering narrative concerns. At this point in author Tamora Pierce’s larger ongoing Tortall series, I need more than just paint-by-numbers sword and sorcery.
This book: ★★★☆☆
Overall series: ★★★☆☆
Book ranking: 3 > 2 > 1 > 4
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