{"id":1411,"date":"2012-11-26T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2012-11-25T16:38:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T00:38:50","slug":"mark-predicts-lioness-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/mark-predicts-lioness-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;Lioness Rampant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OH MY GOD, I can&#8217;t believe it. I&#8217;m nearing the end of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Song of the Lioness<\/em>. I mean, I\u00c2\u00a0<em>do<\/em> have a quarter million more of Tamora Pierce&#8217;s books to cover, but it&#8217;s still bittersweet that my journey with Alanna is coming to an end. Well, let&#8217;s go over my past predictions, and then I&#8217;ll make a fool of myself again!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My predictions for\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Woman Who Rides Like a Man<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alanna will fight a dragon. COME ON, WHY NOT? There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a\u00c2\u00a0<em>talking cat<\/em>, so why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there be dragons in this fictional world?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>DAMN IT.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Well, I tried. 0\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will meet a new tribe\/race\/society of people we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve not seen before.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I&#8217;m not going to count this one, despite that we met multiple Bazhir tribes. What I meant by this was a group\u00c2\u00a0<em>other<\/em> than the Bazhir. Wait, do the hillsmen count? Okay, I&#8217;ll give myself a half point out of pity. 0.5\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Coram will die at some point during the journey. Look, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just trying to protect myself\u00c2\u00a0<em>in advance<\/em>. There is nothing wrong with this.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Thankfully, everything was wrong with this. PHEW. 0.5\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alanna will get separated from her horse for at least one chapter.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>What. 0.5\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>She will fight someone by chapter three.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Hahaha, TRY CHAPTER ONE. 0.5\/5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Her adventure will involve saving a man! OMG subvert that damsel in distress trope. DO IT.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Not only that, but saving\u00c2\u00a0<em>another woman<\/em>. Hell yes! 1.5\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>She won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see anyone aside from Coram or Faithful who was in the first two books in this third book.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Bah. But this is good! Seeing George, his mother, Jonathan, and Myles was ALL AWESOME. 1.5\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153adventure\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she seeks out will take up the whole of the third book.\u00c2\u00a0VICTORY. 2.5\/8<\/li>\n<li>She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make a new friend!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>SHE MADE MANY NEW FRIENDS. 3.5\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>She will meet one of George\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thieves.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>OH SHIT, I WAS RIGHT. 4.5\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Butts?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Oh well. A boy can hope!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>4.5\/11<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>The last book gave me VIRTUALLY NOTHING TO GO ON, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really grasping for straws here.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Hey, I was right! 5\/12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alanna will have another conversation with the Mother.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Okay, Mark, put your computer away. 5\/13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At the end of the book, she will go back to Court.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>WELP. No, she went to Corus for a brief spell, but that&#8217;s it. 5\/14.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that was just abysmal. WILL I FARE BETTER FOR THE LAST BOOK OF THE QUARTET?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, at some point, Alanna WILL return to COURT. Not just Corus, but to Court.<\/li>\n<li>We will get 100% confirmation that Thom raised Roger from the dead.<\/li>\n<li>Roger will die.<\/li>\n<li>Thom will die.<\/li>\n<li>Alanna will reconcile with Jonathan.<\/li>\n<li>BUT ALANNA WILL END UP WITH GEORGE COOPER INSTEAD. A man can hope, CAN&#8217;T I JUST HAVE SOME HOPE?<\/li>\n<li>The King will die at some point, too, and Jonathan will take the throne.<\/li>\n<li>Butts?<\/li>\n<li>Wasps?<\/li>\n<li>Dragons?<\/li>\n<li>Alanna will seek out adventure with Coram in the beginning of the book, but it will lead her back to Corus.<\/li>\n<li>One of the original friends she had when she was training to be a knight will also die.<\/li>\n<li>Alanna will inherit her old home.<\/li>\n<li>This book will end with a take on the Happily Ever After trope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, I know for a fact I&#8217;m unprepared for this book. It&#8217;s kind of exciting! Plus, it&#8217;ll be neat to see how the following series work within the Tortall universe.<\/p>\n<p>See y&#8217;all on Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Links Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You can follow me on\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for any updates and live commentary on upcoming reviews I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing.<br \/>\n&#8211; You should read this\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/hello-mark-does-stuff-community-lets-discuss-things\/\"><strong>very important post<\/strong><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0about supporting Mark Does Stuff!<br \/>\n-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/product\/mark-reads--video\" target=\"_blank\">Video commissions are just $25! 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I&#8217;m nearing the end of\u00c2\u00a0Song of the Lioness. I mean, I\u00c2\u00a0do have a quarter million more of Tamora Pierce&#8217;s books to cover, but it&#8217;s still bittersweet that my journey with Alanna is coming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/mark-predicts-lioness-rampant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,265,278],"tags":[273,250],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lioness-rampant","category-song-of-the-lioness","category-tortall-2","tag-mark-reads-song-of-the-lioness","tag-tamora-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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