the last time i read all of these i was nine. NINE!!!

[elapses]

If you have ever indulged yourself with Tamora Pierce/the Song of the Lioness books, THIS IS A POLL FOR YOU:

Poll this is not a judge-free zone sorry

Comments

[elapses]

Oh man I was going to hold back my answer ~for the integrity of the poll~ but it makes me so happy that you (both of you!) felt that way. BECAUSE I DID TOO, but my friends (Tamora Pierce really big in ~my circle~ in fourth grade) always made me feel like I was a crazy person who was just being contrary because someone had spoiled me for the ending when I was still in the middle of book 2. AND I ALWAYS KIND OF WONDERED IF THAT WAS TRUE, and if, as an adult, I would feel differently, but no, I am rereading them and I feel exactly specifically the same way about it that I did at 9. (Which is to say: they should have totally broken up in the desert but then ended up together at the end.)

[elapses]

HOW WERE THE IMMORTALS?? I'm a little afraid to go back to those because for some reason I refused to finish the fourth one?? And somehow that ended in my friend trying to force-read it to me and me ripping her book (ah, elementary school). But I also don't remember anything about them except that I really loved book 3?? So I don't know if I want to try them or not.

But yes!! Alanna and Jon have this like... idk really specific kind of best-friend intimacy that I looooooove, I can't articulate it. ALSO I'M NOT GOING TO LIE, sometimes I find George a lil creepy?? I mean I love their friendship SO MUCH in book 1 and there's like, a way a romance between them could have been written that I would have been into but it's.. not the way it was written.

[goodripples]

I answered George but I loved her with Jon, too! I actually started rereading this series at the start of the year because I got super nostalgic about it at the end of last year for some reason, BUT OOPS, I never finished. I should get on that.

[elapses]

How far into rereading did you get? Istg I have read books 1-2 like a HUNDRED GAZILLION times but book 3 like, maybe 3 or 4, and I don't think I've even reread book 4 once. I'm close to the end of 3 now and it's super weird how I don't remember any of this when I remembered the first books so well, 10+ years since I'd last touched them.

[goodripples]

I just reread the first two. I think I started to reread the third, but then school let out or something and I just got distracted from it. Ugh I should really pick it up again.

[elapses]

I mean I'd say the first two are the best two but I don't even really remember the last two enough to say that?!?! YOU REALLY SHOULD THO, I'm... mostly enjoying my reread!

[elapses]

YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT AND NOT TELL ME THE WHOLE STORY!!!!

[elapses]

That does sound creepy!! I feel like it's a lot easier to get involved in that kind of drama when you're younger, I had a really dramatic exit from ST: Voyager fandom when I was like, 11, but if I wrote it out now the whole thing would sound SO. STUPID.

[empressearwig]

OKAY, SO, I feel the need to clarify my answer. I went with No One, because in the grand scheme of things I didn't care who she ended up with though I preferred Jon. WHAT I HAD A BIG HONKING OBJECTION TO is the radical personality transplant that Jon has to undergo in order to get him and Alanna to end. Like, if she wanted to write George/Alanna, fine! Great. I'm happy for her. DON'T DESTROY OTHER CHARACTERS TO DO IT.

(I reread all of these like two years ago and felt this way more than ever, so I am pretty sure those feelings are going to stick.)

[kindness_says]

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes omg

[elapses]

I seem to be less bitter than you alexandra in the END b/c I don't mind them when they are side characters in the other booksI am willing to bet this is because YOUR friends agreed with you

[kindness_says]

You are very cranky indeed. We enjoy it. We also want to clarify that we are the only two who liked them, I think... I think all my other friends were pro-George. >>

[torigates]

The other dude's name was Liam!

[kindness_says]

[elapses]

AH OKAY THANK YOU! Man, sometimes it's weird how regular the names are in Tamora Pierce.