![]() ![]() ![]() I would have welcomed setting aside the magic and mission/adventure until the next book, and instead focus squarely on the bullying, training and the uniqueness of her gender in that situation, digging into those aspects of the plot, finding the depth in them. ![]() ![]() I just don’t think the resulting triumph is as emotionally rewarding for the reader as it might have been had we gotten a true sense of what an uphill climb it was to get there. Alanna, starting out as a page, quickly acquires a group of friends and an enemy, as well as a connection with an older thief in town, for me, there wasn’t a single personality in this group who stood out from the rest, the bad guy is a bad guy there’s nothing else to him, and the friends were friendly, but beyond that there wasn’t really a notable quality about any of them, even the thief who could have and probably should have had a fun edge to him, didn’t really.As for Alanna, she’s persistent and tough, admirable traits, though it seemed like too much of her training took place without readers being witness to it, we see her stand up for herself, but it’s the journey not the destination right? I just feel like you lose out a bit on a big cathartic moment when you mostly gloss over the effort it took for the character to reach that point, when you don’t see Alanna learning tactics and having to try and try again to get a grasp on them, when you’re mostly just told at the end of the day how tired she is rather than truly see her put through the paces. I liked the idea of this one, but there wasn’t quite the depth in emotion and character I would have preferred.More than anything, Alanna wants to be a knight, but as a girl, that isn’t an option, so she comes up with this idea to swap places with her twin brother, and disguised as a boy, she’ll take his place as a knight in training. ![]()
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