What I'm reading

I haven't been to the library in a while (though thankfully I only have one book waiting to return so hopefully there won't be any fines) so I am reading from my bookshelf.

My current read is Wolf Speaker by Tamora Pierce. This is a young adult book, second in a quartet (thankfully I own the set).

I love Tamora Pierce and have read everything she's published. She writes fantasy (though I dislike this term), about a different place and time where there is magic, referred to as the gift and people live more 'rustically.' There are no guns or electricity, there is monarchy, lords and ladies, Gods and Goddesses who meddle in mortal lives.

Having said all that makes the book sound terribly medieval but it's not. Pierce writes with humour, warmth and reality. The series follows Daine who when we meet her seems to be just a normal girl, wishing she were something else. Daine learns she has magic with animals and finds a home after her first is destroyed. There is war and monsters but it's the human element, including the humanised animals, that make the story.