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 …
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Book #69 of 2018: Squire by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #3) I’ve noted before that this quartet of books within Tamora Pierce’s larger Tortall series seems to be the author’s take on the classic boarding school literary genre, like Harry Potter without any looming Voldemort-style threat. Indeed, the plot is the major shortcoming …
Book #50 of 2018: Page by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #2) I like this book better than the first one, and it definitely has a more engaging climax, but I’m still finding this particular Tortall quartet to be a rather aimless bildungsroman. As likeable as the heroine is, there’s simply not much plot …
Book #15 of 2018: First Test by Tamora Pierce (Protector of the Small #1) This is the start of a new quartet within author Tamora Pierce’s larger Tortall series, and it benefits from the worldbuilding that the earlier books have established without doing much to further things here. Set a decade or so after Pierce’s …
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