{"id":373,"date":"2014-12-08T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=373"},"modified":"2015-08-09T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:20:48","slug":"jen-reads-alanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2014\/12\/08\/jen-reads-alanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, 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href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13831.Alanna\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1388206270m\/13831.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13831.Alanna\">Alanna: The First Adventure<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8596.Tamora_Pierce\">Tamora Pierce<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1114509494\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick review for a quick read. If I had read ALANNA when I was at the age of the characters I would have loved it, with its girl-in-boy&#8217;s-clothing switch and hints of magic. Being far out of that age range now, I can see the pacing issues and the &#8220;mary sue&#8221;-ness of Alanna. But it&#8217;s a fun beginning-quest novel, and Pierce doesn&#8217;t shy away from verisimilitude for her characters. But this is clearly written for younger readers, which is fine&#8211;I&#8217;ll be sure to find a copy of this for my daughter whenever I have one, because it&#8217;s a good teaching book. I&#8217;m glad I got the chance to read it, and I&#8217;ll try to find other books in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Read for free on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseit.com\/alanna-book\/read\/link\" rel=\"nofollow\">pulseit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/76111-jennifer\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Jen reads ALANNA, just a few decades too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Jen reads: Alanna: The First Adventure http:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-61","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,38,52,65],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-fantasy","tag-magic","tag-pulseit","tag-ya"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-61","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":648,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}