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earlymorningechoesI think this was total reread number 2, reread number 3 for some of the books (possibly only first reread of Shatterglass?). And they are just as comforting and home and feel like they live in my soul as they were the first time around.
I came to Tamora Pierce books as an adult, somehow - I was that kid who had a different book on her desk every day in school (other kids commented on it) and I volunteered in the school library in high school, but I still...never read any of her books. I think I started with the Protector of the Small quartet sometime in college, and read some of the other Tortall books - I liked them well enough and was glad I had read them, for the most part, but they didn't Stick With Me the way some books do.
And then I read the Emelan books, and I was hooked. I loved the kids so much, and loved how much the adults cared about them, and how even though there's the typical "kids doing wildly mature things because it's kids' fiction" stuff, the adults aren't incompetent - they're incredible too, and the kids just don't fit into everyone's preconceived notions of the world, and their grown-ups lean into that!!
For some reason I got through Cold Fire and stopped (possibly because that's an intense book, and the fact that Daja has more of a personal relationship with Ben makes it so much more intense). I don't know how long it took me to pick up the series again (long enough to have forgotten that I owned the ebooks of the original four books and go check them out from the library, lol, and I believe that series of checkouts was right at the beginning of lockdown in 2020), and the books just...took root in my heart.
I love Lark and Rosethorn even more than I did the first time around, and I love these children dearly, and The Will of the Empress is definitely one of my favorite books. I want to read and write fic, I want to hug my books, I want the map of Emelan up on my wall.
Lives in my soul.
I came to Tamora Pierce books as an adult, somehow - I was that kid who had a different book on her desk every day in school (other kids commented on it) and I volunteered in the school library in high school, but I still...never read any of her books. I think I started with the Protector of the Small quartet sometime in college, and read some of the other Tortall books - I liked them well enough and was glad I had read them, for the most part, but they didn't Stick With Me the way some books do.
And then I read the Emelan books, and I was hooked. I loved the kids so much, and loved how much the adults cared about them, and how even though there's the typical "kids doing wildly mature things because it's kids' fiction" stuff, the adults aren't incompetent - they're incredible too, and the kids just don't fit into everyone's preconceived notions of the world, and their grown-ups lean into that!!
For some reason I got through Cold Fire and stopped (possibly because that's an intense book, and the fact that Daja has more of a personal relationship with Ben makes it so much more intense). I don't know how long it took me to pick up the series again (long enough to have forgotten that I owned the ebooks of the original four books and go check them out from the library, lol, and I believe that series of checkouts was right at the beginning of lockdown in 2020), and the books just...took root in my heart.
I love Lark and Rosethorn even more than I did the first time around, and I love these children dearly, and The Will of the Empress is definitely one of my favorite books. I want to read and write fic, I want to hug my books, I want the map of Emelan up on my wall.
Lives in my soul.
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