{"id":1491,"date":"2012-12-25T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2012-12-25T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T19:00:28","slug":"tallying-my-lioness-rampant-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/12\/tallying-my-lioness-rampant-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallying my &#8216;Lioness Rampant&#8217; predictions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to put up a post for this\u00c2\u00a0<em>specifically<\/em> on Christmas as a lovely gift to y&#8217;all, so we can all laugh at me\u00c2\u00a0<em>and<\/em> talk about\u00c2\u00a0<em>Song of the Lioness<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0another day. I&#8217;m marveling at these predictions because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever been so prepared for something\u00c2\u00a0<em>whilst<\/em> still being totally unprepared. LET&#8217;S DO THIS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Oh god, I WAS REALLY GOOD THIS TIME AROUND.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, at some point, Alanna WILL return to COURT. Not just Corus, but to Court.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>YES. 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>We will get 100% confirmation that Thom raised Roger from the dead. <span style=\"color: #000000\"><b>YES. GDI THOM. 2\/2<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Roger will die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>FINALLY. 3\/3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Thom will die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>NO, I TAKE THIS BACK. 4\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alanna will reconcile with Jonathan.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>HOLY SHIT A PERFECT SCORE SO FAR. 5\/5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>BUT ALANNA WILL END UP WITH GEORGE COOPER INSTEAD. A man can hope, CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T I JUST HAVE SOME HOPE?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>my hope was VICTORIOUS HOLY SHIT 6\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The King will die at some point, too, and Jonathan will take the throne.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>am i a seer WHY HAVE MY POWERS NEVER WORKED BEFORE THIS 7\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Butts?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>At one point, George sat on a horse so there was inherently a butt being a butt that I care about. 8\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Wasps?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I should stop predicting things about wasps. 8\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Dragons?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>This wasn&#8217;t a joke! Oh god. 8\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alanna will seek out adventure with Coram in the beginning of the book, but it will lead her back to Corus.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I WAS RIGHT OMG. 9\/11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>One of the original friends she had when she was training to be a knight will also die.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>NOOOOOO, I TAKE THIS BACK, TOO. 10\/12<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alanna will inherit her old home.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>WAIT. Did this happen? Technically, since Thom died, right? I DON&#8217;T KNOW. 10\/13 just in case.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This book will end with a take on the Happily Ever After trope.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>KIND OF SINCE THERE IS NO END TO THIS STORY. F Y&#8217;ALL I&#8217;M COUNTING THIS. 11\/14<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have never scored so well\u00c2\u00a0<em>ever<\/em>. EVER! Holy shit, that&#8217;s amazing. However, I&#8217;m now 5 chapters into\u00c2\u00a0<em>Wild Magic\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>(I have to write posts in advance more than usual because I&#8217;m traveling after Christmas and won&#8217;t have access to\u00c2\u00a0<em>anything<\/em>), so I can safely predict that I will never, ever be this prolific in my accuracy for that quartet. Good\u00c2\u00a0<em>god<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank y&#8217;all. The Tamora Pierce fandom is easily the\u00c2\u00a0<em>nicest<\/em> fandom to ever show up to my site, and you have given me a renewed love for what I do. I&#8217;m so glad we get to hang out for eternity as well. We resume reading\u00c2\u00a0<em>Wild Magic<\/em> tomorrow, and can I spoil you all and just say I AM LOVING IT SO MUCH.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have a wonderful holiday season, and I&#8217;m eager to keep discussing this world with each of you. &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to put up a post for this\u00c2\u00a0specifically on Christmas as a lovely gift to y&#8217;all, so we can all laugh at me\u00c2\u00a0and talk about\u00c2\u00a0Song of the Lioness\u00c2\u00a0another day. I&#8217;m marveling at these predictions because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/12\/tallying-my-lioness-rampant-predictions\/\">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":[273,93,250],"class_list":["post-1491","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-predictions","tag-tamora-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","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=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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