So I’ve decided to do a quick little review on this. I’m going to be really up-front about this, because I LOVE this book. In fact, I love this series, and I’ve loved it ever since I was a kid. Even to this day I can’t even re-read one book without finishing the whole series in one go (and trust me, I’ve read it about ten times). In my eyes, it can do no wrong, because it is a book about a girl who can talk to animals.
362 pages | Simon Pulse | 1992
I know, right? What.
I remember the first time I read this book: I closed the cover, turned to my dog and spent all day talking to her. No dice, but to this day, if I had a genie in a lamp, I’d straight-up ask for the ability to talk to animals. Or the ability to speak all “languages”, but that’s my college mind speaking.
Wild Magic (The Immortals, Book 1)
Get ready for animals, healing, telepathic animal-speak, and a full-on war wedged into the space of about 350 mass-market paperback pages and 12-size font. It is everything you want, everything you need, and nothing more. No fluff–just a solid read.
This is a great book for young readers, with a solid grip on morals and friendship and loyalty and love. And somehow the series actually manages to get better further along the series, going deeper into questions like, “How can anything be truly evil?” and the dilemmas of snap-judgments. Daine has a solid handle on who she is and what her morals are, and she makes for a good role model for younger readers (though parents, you might want to take a quick look through the 3rd and 4th books to determine if the romantic content, though tame, will be appropriate for your child). She makes mistakes, but always on her own terms, and shuns bad influences like its the new cool 🙂
Honestly, this review if just to get an old book out there more. I have the set (as well as almost every other Tamora Pierce book), and I really don’t think I can continue on with this review without spazzing out. I’d like to do a more indepth review some time, but there are just some things you just can’t pinpoint. It’s just the feeling you get when you read. So, because I don’t trust myself to give an unbiased review on something from my childhood…I can only insist that you go to your local library and give this book a try. I’m sure you’ll love it.
Until then, peace out!
Five paws up for:
+Talking to animals. Understanding animals innately. Having animals be attracted to you instantly.
+A girl who is logical and sensible and all kinds of cool, awesome, and smart
+Magic!
+Tamora Pierce (who I unabashedly adore)
+I seriously want a signed copy
The Paper Foxes Rates
The Paper Foxes 
Great choice! Loved this series as well, although personally “The Lioness Quartet” is my favorite Tamora Pierce series. Still, Daine’s adventures would be a close second.
I LOVE the Alanna series as well! Mine would be the opposite: Alanna comes second in my book. I own both sets, re-read them often, and like both characters equally well,but the Immortals Quartet holds a really special place my heart. It goes right up there with Harry Potter as one of the first books that really got me into reading as a kid. And I’m definitely not surprised by your comment; I always push others to read the Lioness books and the Immortals books together because the chances are that if you like one, you’ll like the other!