Has anyone read books by Tamora Pierce?

[willowtree]

Mona0622: yeah. i love them. I liked the first one better though... the second one was not as focused on the problem as the first one is. and personally, I'm a B/R fan. you'll understand that once you read the books.

[Mona0622]

I really like Tamara Pierce. I've read her first 3 quartets that take place in Tortall. I haven't gotten to the library yet to read the two new books. Are they good?

NoxLight - I agree. I also think that the Lioness quartet is her best one from Tortall (that I've read so far).

[Silverclaw]

Oh please tell us what you didn't like, this is a discussion thread. I'm curious now.

[Stormwind]

I wasn't as much a fan of Bloodhound as I was of Terrier, for most of the same reasons that you (Silverclaw and dorotheia) have already stated. Counterfeiting can be a serious crime if you think of the fact that ALL of their currency was coin and not paper backed in faith... but I see your point too... I didn't like some of the other things in it, but I'll keep my opinion on those to myself because it's just a personal bone...

I've been thinking of rereading those... maybe I'll listen to them again, I have the audio of some of them...

[willowtree]

I LOVE TAMORA PIERCE!!!!!!!!

I first found out about her when my family and I were camping in vermont and we went to a second-hand bookshop in montpelier, and I had to decide between a book i could get at any bookshop and a book I had never seen before and looked perfect for me. of coarse I chose the second one which resulted me in reading every book there is of hers except the circle books, I didn't really like them. my brother thinks I'm a geek.

I have to say, my fav books are the trickster books with aly-she rocks. the whole spy thing is pretty cool... even though i love knights too. the books just seemed more modern, and i liked that.

[Silverclaw]

I see what you mean about the emotion counting more than the crime. And it adds an interesting twist. It's easy to be righteous about murder, but counterfeiting is a bit more ethically ambiguous. Speaking of ethics, has anyone noticed the dogs are pretty much guilty of police brutality? Maybe it's just me, I always side with the villains. Sorry about how little sense this post makes.

[dorotheia]

[Silverclaw]

I was wondering what people thought of Bloodhound. I thought it was good, but Dale was annoying and Rosto, Anniki, and Kora weren't in it enough. And frankly, however dramatic they try to make it sound, counterfeiting really isn't a very interesting crime.

[NoxLight]

I read most of the Tortall books when I was in middle school, and went on a nostalgic rage recently and ended up reading them again and buying The Immortals series from Amazon.
To tell the truth, I ended up not liking The Immortals and Protector of the Small as much as I remember. The Lioness quartet still shined brightly as her best. I realized I didn't like Daine as a character, and didn't like the last two books of PotS.
Her characters are amazing though, especially the teammates. I'm thinking of Nealan and Numair here

[bookdove]

never read them but have heard good things i did buy one just have not had the time to read it.

[illiriam]

For all fans of Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound, the second book in the Beka Cooper series (quartet again?) was released today and is available on amazon.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Bloodhound-Legend-Beka-Cooper-Book/dp/0375814698/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239762489&sr=8-1"]Amazon.com: Bloodhound (The Legend of Beka Cooper, Book 2): Tamora Pierce: Books[/ame]
It is set in the Tortall universe, not the Circle of Magic one (I haven't read them... are they any good?) I enjoyed the first book, Terrier, so hopefully this one is just as good and shows us more of Beka's character and personality.
I would have posted this yesterday to alert everyone that it was being released today, but I thought is was being released tomorrow. I guess I wrote the date down wrong.
Happy reading!

[Silverclaw]

I'm not saying accomplishing stuff makes you a Mary Sue, that would make for very depressing stories. But if you accomplish EVERYTHING you try to do, without much difficulty, even though the odds are obviously against you , and you're still young and relatively untrained, with little help, then that's sort of cliched. And I disagree about the bragging, a Mary Sue is a character who is TOO perfect, so mostly likely they would be unrealistically humble. Bragging is a flaw, and makes characters more real. Sorry if I'm being obnoxious here, I'm just playing the Devil's Advocate. I can never resist a debate, it's just who I am.

[Stormwind]

Bookworm438: She's written Alanna: The First Adventure; In the Hand of the Goddess; The Woman Who Rides Like a Man; Lioness Rampant. This is the start of the Tortall Universe, there are several others...
http://www.tamora-pierce.com/ is her main website, maintained by her spouse I believe, that lists her stories.

Silverclaw - I'm not saying her temper is necessarily a fault, but it is something that doesn't make her really the definition of a MarySue... (I've been reading some real MarySue stories on FanFiction.net recently) If accomplishing everything you set out to do implies you're a MarySue, then any woman who accomplishes anything IS a MarySue... But the definition of a MarySue that I've been seeing on FanFiction.net says that a MarySue BOASTS about what they are good at in every conversation, and despises those who don't feel the same way they do...

I don't really see any of TP's main characters boasting about their skills (except possibly Alianne) but I haven't read them in a while, I've been reading other's SYWTBAW formost in the front...

[bookworm438]

I've never heard of her. What are some of the works she's written?

I'm a fairly fast reader. I can be fast or slow though. I've read the last HP book in a day. Most books are easy for me to understand too. I should read more challenging books like Shakespear etc. I just find them so boring though.

[Silverclaw]

I'm certainly not saying they're all Mary Sues. I love the books. I'm just saying all writers have flaws, and hers is the main characters are cliched. In fact, Mary Sue isn't a very good word to describe it, it's too negative. Sometimes it's fun to read stories about characters who are just essentialy GOOD, and succeed at everything. It's not realistic, but thats why it's fiction. It's true, thats very common for that particular genre. However, I have to beg to differ about temper being a fault. Or let me clarify, it's certainly a fault in a real person. (I should know, it's one of mine.) But it's not really a character flaw in a fictional character, just kind of a filler for deeper flaws. In fact, that's one of the most common cliches: the firey warrior who can't keep her temper. Unless, of course, it truly becomes a problem for them, and I don't just mean getting into fights. I still love Allana, I just don't think she's exactly a model for an original main character.