I was about twenty when this book came out, and that was too old. I think I managed half a dozen pages. I recently (after reading and liking some of Pierce's other books) tried a different Alanna book and bounced off that, too.
I tried the second one to be sure that my first bounce wasn't entirely due to the fact that I was hugely disappointed that the book wasn't something new by Meredith Ann Pierce. It had appeared on the bookstore shelves right next to Dark Angel and Gathering of Gargoyles, and I'd already been waiting a couple of years for the third book in that series. For years, I was cranky about seeing new Tamora Pierce books, one after another, while there weren't any Meredith Ann Pierce books showing up.
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Date: 2009-04-18 11:24 am (UTC)I tried the second one to be sure that my first bounce wasn't entirely due to the fact that I was hugely disappointed that the book wasn't something new by Meredith Ann Pierce. It had appeared on the bookstore shelves right next to Dark Angel and Gathering of Gargoyles, and I'd already been waiting a couple of years for the third book in that series. For years, I was cranky about seeing new Tamora Pierce books, one after another, while there weren't any Meredith Ann Pierce books showing up.