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why do you linger here when there is no hope? there is still h o p e.
I do not believe this darkness will endure.
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Protector of the Small is one the Best Series Ever Written, and Everyone Should Read It
Books Read in 2026: 13
Books Started in 2025: 4
Most Recently Read: Protector of the Small (quartet) by Tamora Pierce
Genres: Fantasy, YA
CW: This review talks in broad, non-explicit terms about sexual violence, as it's an issue/theme tackled by the series.
I don't recall what, exactly, sparked me to reread the Protector of the Small quartet, other than maybe a lack of Neal in my life. (Please, if you are reading this, send me your favorite Neal fics.) I do remember telling a friend I wanted to reread them, only to realize that I'm pretty sure PotS is the only Tamora Pierce series of which I own none of the books. The next day, she texted me, "don't go out and buy any books. Your birthday present will be in next week." (In case you're wondering, my birthday is in September.) Because she knows me. And knew what I was about to do. Only, I couldn't wait a week. So I checked the entire quartet out of the library was halfway through Squire before she was able to give me the new books. And I couldn't bear to open the new set and start in the middle of Squire. It would be like neglecting First Test and Page. So I determined I would finish the library books first. And then I could read the whole series again.
Kel is one of my top two Tortall heroines (Beka is my other). I relate to her a lot, though I only dream of having her level of determination and follow-through. (Also, Kel x No One is my favorite Tortall ship.) And while I think Beka may barely edge Kel out as my number one protagonist, I think Kel's books edge out Beka's for my favorite series. I could probably write 1001 essays on these books (and when I finish my next read through, I'll probably write another), but today, I'm going to tell you why it's my favorite Tortall series. And, no, I'm not sorry for how long or who detailed this is. (But I do apologize for any factual mistakes I make in reference to these books, even though I recently finished them, the events may have run together a bit.)
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Excerpt: For a while he said nothing, but she knew he was still there, still watching her. “Why do any of this?” he wanted to know. “It isn’t at all needful. Did someone tell you that you had no chance to marry?”
Kel’s hand jerked, smearing charcoal over her notes. She made a face and rubbed it out. Joren went on, “It’s not true. You’d be a pretty thing, in the right clothes and after you’d lost some weight. After you stopped working so your arms are like a blacksmith’s. You’d make a fine wife for one of those big fellows - Cleon, for instance. He seems fond of you. How about Lord Raoul? He can afford a wife. You could settle down and raise young giants.” He smiled as Kel looked at him, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes.
When she was five and her mother had saved the Yamanis’ most sacred artifacts from pirates, the emperor made her family part of his inner circle. Suddenly Kel’s family was sought by all kinds of people. Children who had laughed at Kel and called her a hulking barbarian now fought for the honor of sitting with her. They gave her presents and invited her to their homes. Kel heard two of them say privately that their parents had ordered them to befriend the emperor’s pets so the emperor might favortheir families. The smiles of those children, and their parents, never reached their eyes, either.
“It’s so good of you to concern yourself with my marriage prospects,” Kel replied evenly. “Has it occurred to you I don’t want to marry?” Neal, she thought suddenly and horribly. If Neal asked me…
He never will, replied her coldly practical self. He falls in love with beauties.
“Nonsense,” Joren was saying comfortably. “All women care about marriage. Even the Lioness scraped up a husband, though she had to dig through the middens of Corus to do it.”
Surely the King’s Champion had married only because she had wanted to. “If you say so,” Kel replied. She went back to her mapping. - Page
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG 2009, dir. John Musker, Ron Clements
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I think sotl is like the most iconic tortall quartet and protector of the small is definitely the most thoughtfully well written. but the immortals are the most indulgent by a mile. like this was the quartet written for the twelve year old who still lives inside tamora pierce with the handle animaluvr54 and a massive crush on her middle school english teacher. as a huge fan of the 2015 sci fi classic jupiter ascending im obviously v on board with this
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG 2009, dir. John Musker, Ron Clements