Anybody read her work? I read mostly the Tortal universe, that goes like so:
Song of the Lioness quartet, first book- Alanna, the First Adventure: About a girl (Alanna) who switches with her twin brother (Thom, pronounced TOM) so she can become a knight and he came become a great sorcer. First Adventure deals with her page years. Even thought the first book is small, you must read it for anything else she has written in Tortal to make sense.
The rest of the books in Song are- In the Hand of the Goddess (her squire years) Woman who Rides Like a Man (just gotten her shield) and Lioness Rampant, (still going on adventures)
Immortals quartet, first book- Wild Magic: About another girl (Daine) that is orphaned. She joins with a traveling horse trader and ends up at the palace. Along the way she encounters unearthly creatures called immortals and some friends (Several characters from Song show up in this quartet. Reason you have to read it first). When she gets to the palace she discovers she has a branch of magic called wild magic, more so then any other human. She must master her magic to be able to save the kingdom.
Rest of the books- Wolf Speaker (she joins up with a wolf pack from her old home because something's wrong in their new one), Emperor Mage (goes to a neighbouring country and finds out a bunch of stuff. This series ties into itself a lot, so I can't say more then that) and In the Realm of the Gods (She gets pulled there by.... gods [not saying more then that] and learns a bunch More stuff)
Protector of the Small quartet, first book- First Test. About Keldrie of Minderlan (Kel) who is the first girl to take advantage of the proclemation that lets girls be knights. She is put on one year's probation to make sure she cat do things. Again, characters from the first two quartets show up.
Other books- Page (her page years) Squire (she gets chosen by one of the best knights in the realm, one of Alanna's friends) and Lady Knight (her first year or so as one. She's chosen to head a refuge camp during war)
Daughter of the Lioness, also called the Trickster Books, first book- Trickster's Choice. I haven't read past chapter 3 of this book, but basically it follows Aly, Alanna's daughter, as she gets sold into slavery in a war-torn island nation. She has inherited the strength of magic from Alanna, and the Sight (another branch of magic) from her father. She has to put her master spy skills to the test.
Other book- Trickster's Queen. Her continuing adventures on the island.
Proverst's Dog trilogy, first book- Terrier. About Beka (Rebekah) Cooper, who was the ansestor of one of the characters in Song. The Proverst guard is a police force for Tortal, and Beka has just been accepted. This follows her time as a puppy (what trainees are called) and it covers under two months of her life. This book is told in first person journal style, and you can read it if you haven't read Immortals, Protector of the Small or Tricksters since it is set 200 years before Song. But you should read Alanna the First Adventure just to see the irony.
Other books- Bloodhound (out spring 2009) and Elkhound (spring 2010, I think)
All of her quartets have romance in them at one point or another, lovers are mentioned, gayness is mentioned later on (Protector) and violence and corruption are large parts of all her books, some more then others. Even though I know somebody who read them before she was 10, I wouldn't recomend these to anybody under 13.
Although I don't like Jon in Woman Who Rides Like a Man.
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