In Collection
#170
Rating:
10
Read It:
Yes
(2006)
#170
Rating:
10
Read It:
Yes
(2006)
Archmage, Courts and courtiers - Fiction, Druids and Druidism - Fiction, Good and evil - Fiction, Knights and knighthood - Fiction
| Cover Artist | Newbold, Greg |
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Notes
SFBC Review:
Though it might not show all the time, I am a fully functional adult. But something about a really good book for teenagers you know, Diana Wynne Jones, Daniel Pinkwater, J.K. Rowling, that crowd sets me buzzing in a way books for "adults" don't. So when we started to get piles of member mail requesting this series, I had to check it out myself and I loved it.
Alanna of Trebond dreams of being a knight, and her twin Thom desperately wants to be a sorcerer. But their father insists that Thom be trained as a knight and Alanna enter a convent for a proper, ladylike, upbringing. So Alanna secretly swaps their letters of introduction, and with a little help from friendly family servants becomes "Alan," a page at the court of King Roald, while her brother sets off to the City of the Gods and intensive training in magic.
She quickly makes friends with the heir, Prince Jonathan, but also meets the King’s brother, the charismatic Duke Roger, who she is sure is up to no good. Over the years of her training, she learns to fight and ride, to command magic and to enforce the King’s justice. But before she can become a knight—she also must face ancient demons, the treacherous Duke Roger, warlike neighbors and, finally, her own secrets.
Andrew Wheeler, Editor
Includes Alanna: The First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man and Lioness Rampant. Jacket art by Greg Newbold. (Approx. 592 pp.) 1983-1988.
Though it might not show all the time, I am a fully functional adult. But something about a really good book for teenagers you know, Diana Wynne Jones, Daniel Pinkwater, J.K. Rowling, that crowd sets me buzzing in a way books for "adults" don't. So when we started to get piles of member mail requesting this series, I had to check it out myself and I loved it.
Alanna of Trebond dreams of being a knight, and her twin Thom desperately wants to be a sorcerer. But their father insists that Thom be trained as a knight and Alanna enter a convent for a proper, ladylike, upbringing. So Alanna secretly swaps their letters of introduction, and with a little help from friendly family servants becomes "Alan," a page at the court of King Roald, while her brother sets off to the City of the Gods and intensive training in magic.
She quickly makes friends with the heir, Prince Jonathan, but also meets the King’s brother, the charismatic Duke Roger, who she is sure is up to no good. Over the years of her training, she learns to fight and ride, to command magic and to enforce the King’s justice. But before she can become a knight—she also must face ancient demons, the treacherous Duke Roger, warlike neighbors and, finally, her own secrets.
Andrew Wheeler, Editor
Includes Alanna: The First Adventure, In the Hand of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man and Lioness Rampant. Jacket art by Greg Newbold. (Approx. 592 pp.) 1983-1988.