Just finished
tammy212's The Realm of the Gods tonight. Its the fourth book in her "The Immortals" sub-series of her Kingdom of Tortall series. I first got clued into Mrs. Pierce waaaaay back last year when she made some less than polite comments on the writing skills of Mark Millar in regards to his writing on Marvel's Civil War. Which had a pretty big fan reaction, pro and con, since she had just been named as the writer on Marvel's White Tiger mini. And lo her journal became infused for a time with fanboys and fangrrls. Some congratulatory and some trollish. Since I think Millar is a giant, over-rated hack as a writer I was in the first camp...
But in perusing the commentaries and flame wars that sprang up, I found out that Pierce is a succesful writer of young adult books. And so I made a note to try and check her work out if I ran across it on one of my many trips to 1/2 Price Books or Bookmans. And I ended up starting with her two "Trickster" books. And then working my way backwards from their. From "Trickster" to "Lady Knight" and then "The Immortals" and as soon as I get the first two books in the set "Song of the Lioness". I have no idea how I managed to work it so I'd be going backwards thru her books. Normally I'll pick up one book in a series like this, enjoy it, and then start from the beginning...
Though my favorite book by her so far has been Beka Cooper: Terrier which is a prequel, set several hundred years before the rest of the series. What can I say, I like street-level cops & robbers stuff. Even when its centered around teen rookie cops...
But given that everything so far is very much centered around young, female protaginists it all just further proves one thing. That I really am a giant girl. And I'm ok with that...
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But in perusing the commentaries and flame wars that sprang up, I found out that Pierce is a succesful writer of young adult books. And so I made a note to try and check her work out if I ran across it on one of my many trips to 1/2 Price Books or Bookmans. And I ended up starting with her two "Trickster" books. And then working my way backwards from their. From "Trickster" to "Lady Knight" and then "The Immortals" and as soon as I get the first two books in the set "Song of the Lioness". I have no idea how I managed to work it so I'd be going backwards thru her books. Normally I'll pick up one book in a series like this, enjoy it, and then start from the beginning...
Though my favorite book by her so far has been Beka Cooper: Terrier which is a prequel, set several hundred years before the rest of the series. What can I say, I like street-level cops & robbers stuff. Even when its centered around teen rookie cops...
But given that everything so far is very much centered around young, female protaginists it all just further proves one thing. That I really am a giant girl. And I'm ok with that...