Song of the Lioness: Alanna: The First Adventure

Reader reviewed by Ruby


I really enjoyed this book! I read it quite some time ago though so I kinda foreget some of it, but all I remeber was I did a book report on Alanna and my teacher liked the story line! I reccomened this to anyone (well girls) who like adventure, and love magic!

Reader reviewed by Hiba

This is an awesome book. Being only a girl, the charateristices Alanna posesses and the way she proves herself to the knights and her comrades is delightful and admirable. This ia a book you will not want to keep down till the end. Be sure to read the other three nooks after this noe. They are the greatest ever!!!!

Reader reviewed by Natalie

I first came across Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness
Book 1) when I was fourteen. I saw it again at the library the last
time I was there and, since Id forgotten a lot of the book, decided to
pick it up.

How could I have forgotten the brilliance of Tamora
Pierce? I read this series years ago, and still enjoyed it immensely
today. Granted, the book is a little elementary for my age (19), but I
still loved it. It provided a very quick, satisfying read.

As a
young girl, Alanna is destined to be sent off to study magic and learn
to be a noblewoman. But this stubborn, vivacious girl has other ideas:
she wants to be a knight! Her twin brother, Thom, wants to be a
sorcerer, so Alanna cuts her hair and the two switch places. Alanna
trains as a page at the palace, making new friends (including Prince
Jonathan, the heir to the throne), and increasing her control of the
Gift, the magical powers she was born with. As Alanna continues her
studies and adventures, she begins to realize that her Gift is much
more powerful than she originally thought it to be. The Gift, along
with her newly acquired skills and friends, helps her along her way to
prove herself as a worthy warrior, despite the (mostly unknown) fact
that she is a girl.

I was surprised by how much I still enjoyed
this book, even though its age range is for middle to high school
readers. Author Tamora Pierce has a magical (yes I know thats a
cliche) way with words, and is able to create a beautiful fantasy world
full of intriguing ideas that still appeals to me today. For those of
you who enjoy fantasy and are looking for a quick (I read it in two
hours) but enjoyable read, I would recommend checking this book out.
Im off to go reserve the sequels and check out other books by Tamora
Pierce. I know that she does write books for older audiences as well,
so Ill see what I find!

Reader reviewed by Babydex17

OMG! This book was cool. It's all about her page years, when she first decided to embrace her power and become a knight. I always wondered how no one noticed she wasn't a guy. It was obvious. She started out weak and stuff, but then she got better and she showed those guys that even though she was small, she could still kick butt. Tamora Pierce became one of my fave authors for this one book alone, because I knew if I like this I would like her other books, even though it was only the ones about Tortall.

Reader reviewed by starberry

Meet Alana of Trebond,whose dream is to become a the lady knight of the century. She is going to the king's court to become one. Did I mention that the story takes place in the early middle ages where women are not allowed to become knights? Well back to the point, Alana disgiuses as her twiiiiin brother Alan.
In the palace she makes friends with prince Jonathan and enemies with his over charming unlce, Duke Roger.