1.3 Review: The Song of the Lioness
Enthusiastic Review: Tamora Pierce’s The Lioness Quartet series. I'm starting my reviews today with an author whom I have followed for over 10 years. Because writing, especially good writing, stays with you. Before I begin, I should start with a caveat: I read these novels when I was sixteen originally and when I look back on them now, I find that what made me like them then still very much hold up as an adult. However, as well you might expect, I have the rose-tinted glasses of youthful adventure over these novels. Many folk who are now YA readers probably weren’t born before the age of ADSL internet and PDF downloads from Amazon. I was. In my day, I journeyed to bookstores and libraries for my meals of novel-oodles. We were hungry to find books on shelves; genres were restricted and rare and popular novels as a poor student with no income could take weeks to be available for check-out at the local library. Yes, these were dark times indeed for hungry r...