Tortall and Other Lands - Tamora Pierce

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Title: Tortall and Other Lands
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy, short stories
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 392
Date read: August, 2011

A collection of ten short stories featuring both old and new characters from the Tortall universe.

I'm usually not a great fan of short stories, but I figured I couldn't go all wrong with Tamora Pierce, and fortunately I was right :) I really enjoyed all these tales from the Tortall universe, although found it somewhat telling that I definitely enjoyed those with characters I knew better than those with characters I didn't - the one exception being Lost which I think may just have been my favourite... guess I'm still just a math-geek at heart ;-)

I didn't care as much for the stories set in present day though. Somehow it just seemed misplaced somehow. Especially the last story, Testing, which - though good - I really couldn't see how fit into the theme set by the rest of the short stories.

But all in all I really enjoyed the stories, and am now in the mood for more Tamora Pierce.

Comments

[jaydestarlight.livejournal.com]

Tamora Pierce just so happens to be one of my favorite authors, and Tortall has a special place in my heart because I began with Tortall. So I'm glad that the book was good, although I hesitate to want to read it because (more often than not) short story books confuse me a little bit.

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to feel the same way, which is why I usually stay away from short story collections. But I had to see if this one measured up to my usual expectations of Tamora Pierce, and fortunately I wasn't disappointed.

If you do decide to read it, you might want to start off with "Nawaf" or "A Dragon's Tale" rather than reading the stories in order, as those two are the two stories most closely connected to characters in the books (Aly and Diane respectively).

[breathingbooks.livejournal.com]

Sometime you and I should read through a pierce quartet and post our reactions simultaneously. I think it would be interesting/amusing to see how rarely we agreed on any why's. ;)

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

Heh, that could be fun!