They learn to organize households and marry well. In her time, ladies simply do NOT become knights. The Song of the Lioness quartet is the story of a girl who decides to rebel against tradition and follow her heart to become a knight. That explanation lies in the Beka Cooper books as well. Pierce also never explains the origins of Alanna’s cat, Faithful, in the actual Alanna books. We learn a lot more about the office of The Rogue in the Beka Cooper trilogy, something that isn’t explained very well in the Alanna quartet, even though one of Alanna’s main romantic interests is George Cooper (yes, a descendant of Beka!), the Rogue. It also pays to keep in mind that though the Alanna books were written first, the Beka Cooper trilogy is based two hundred years earlier. It’s interesting to see how Pierce has fleshed out some of the concepts she touched on in the Alanna saga, and it’s fun to see where some of the things from the Beka Cooper trilogy originated.
That complaint aside, the Alanna books are really the foundation that the rest of Tortall was built upon. They’re much more fleshed out in her recent books. This is in stark contrast to her latest work, where every character that has a significant role to play has a history of their own, and thoughts and feelings of their own. Characters pop up, have a significant interaction with Alanna, and are gone again, with no indication they exist outside of their usefulness to the main character. The characters are mostly one-dimensional few of the side characters seem to have plots going or events happening to them when they’re not with Alanna. My first thought upon completing Alanna: the First Adventure was “I’m very glad she’s gotten better at writing!” The story itself is still interesting and worth reading, but the style is a little difficult to read when I KNOW how well she writes now. It’s obvious, going from the latest trilogy to her first writing, how much her writing has matured since the 80s.
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