the Dalaverse

Just finished this summer's dose of Tamora Pierce. Alanna and Daine were the same -- they will always be the same, and that is why I love them. On this reread, I officially accepted Kel fully into the Pierce sisterhood (having read the fourth one, er, three times now? I think? and the others going backwards in succeeding dosages). I don't know what it is, but there's something...something extra I never noticed before, some extra value to her story and her adventures. The easiest way to put it is this: if I had a daughter, I think I'd want her to read Kel's story most of all.

This is the first time I've reread Trickster's Queen, and just like before -- plot, baby, plot. More plot than you can shake a stick at. Coming right off of my newfound Kel adoration, I found Aly grating for the first few chapters of TC, but then I got sucked into her schemes and the Copper Isles again and all was forgiven. Taybur Sibigat still made me cry like a baby (they killed his king! ::whimpers::) After DMC the Kyprioth=Jack Sparrow connection is even more cemented. And Dove remains one of Pierce's best-drawn characters. She makes me want to take Elizabeth away from all of the men, send her back to England, and make her a suffragette. This urge will work itself into the Beckettfic, I suspect.

So yeah. Tamora Pierce is love, and when is the Provost's Dog series coming out? ::checks the Internets:: October 24! Heck yes! My timing with the other books isn't too bad. Oooh. First-person narration and dead people. I'm there.