Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, Book Four)

by Tamora Pierce

Series: Song of the Lioness (4), Tortall (4)

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Title	Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, Book Four)
Author	Tamora Pierce
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Tags	fantasy, tortall, song of the lioness
Collections	Read but unowned, Borrowed from Catherine
Your review	Finally, I've come to the end of the first quartet of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books. Thrillingly, this book opens with Alanna switching from being in a love triangle to a love parallelogram. It was tedious enough to see her waffling between two lovers, so why not throw in a third? Fortunately, in the Land of Magic, you can have consequence-free casual sex. Like The Woman Who Rides Like a Man before it, this is a somewhat disjointed book, and each half is of varying quality. The first half, featuring Alanna on a quest for a Magic Maguffin, is actually fairly good. The second half, however, gets bogged down in the return of the world's most underwhelming and unsurprising villain, Duke Roger. Oh, and Alanna's brother dies, but it's got all the emotional impact of a character death in Torchwood since he's only been in three other scenes in the whole series. At the very least, though, Alanna finally chooses a boyfriend and stops whining about how much attention she gets from the opposite sex. Even if the person she chooses is Creepy George, King of the Thieves, I'll take what I can get.
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Publication	Random House Books for Young Readers (1990), Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date	1997
ISBN	0679801138 / 9780679801139
LC classification 1	PZ7.P61464 Li
Dewey 1	[Fic] 19
Subjects	Alanna (Fictitious character : Pierce) Alanna (Fictitious character : Pierce) › Ficti Alanna (Fictitious character : Pierce) › Fiction Alanna (Fictitious character : Pierce) › Juvenile fiction Fantasy Fantasy fiction Knights and knighthood › Fiction Knights and knighthood › Juvenile fiction Young adult fiction
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Date finished	2008-10-01
Summary 1	Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, Book Four) by Tamora Pierce (1997)
Comments	borrowed from Catherine
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Number of copies	1
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