I remember the Song of the Lioness series like the back of my hand, I remember getting the first book and immediately being in love with the world Tamora Pierce created. I remember when my step father brought home the next two books to the series and finally the very last book sometime later. This series made me fall in love with reading to much it inspired me to write, in hopes I could one day replicate this feeling I have in someone else.

It is by no means a perfect book, but it is to me and that little girl reading these books while her mom did her hair :)

If you like concepts like Mulan where a girl dresses up to join the military, then you would love this series. Alanna is strong, independent and yet still finds people she trusts and confides in; it never once feels like Alanna VS the world, because no matter what Alanna has people who she cares about deeply and care about her just the same. She has strong morals, and always sticks to them.