SPOILER ALERT - For Alanna: The First Adventure
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Disguised as Alan, she goes to the royal palace at Corus while her twin brother Thom goes to the City of Gods. After convincing Maude, the healer at Trebond, Thom forges his father's handwriting and writes that "Alan" of Trebond is to train as a knight. Coram, her manservant for her years as a page, was at first reluctant, when he found out that Alanna, instead of Thom, was going with him, but agreed when Alanna threatened to put magic on him.

She first stumbled upon Ralon of Malven, making an enemy, but was rescued door the Prince...

Review door S. Katz

Tamora Pierce's Tortall and Other Lands Anthology of short stories is a really good read. Several good reads in fact. Now, usually, I don't like short, stories, but these I did because they had all of the elements of a novel which I usually like - well developed characters, interesting plot, meer than 10 pages - and were just shorter. For a lot of them, it felt like a beginning to a story, of a full story but shorter, which I suppose is exactly what a short story is supposed to be. Tamora Pierce does these stories fabulously. There are 11 short stories.

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