I saw this at the Booksmith yesterday, and I had to have it. The Song of the Lioness quartet was one of my favorite series as a kid-- I remember reading the books at summer camp, and passing the first one around, and all of us marveling over the fact that the book talked about PERIODS. I remember loving the romance love triangle story, and being thrilled with a lot of the plot and action.

Well... it's been well over ten years since I read any of these books. And I've got to say, while fun, it doesn't really match my memory-- in my memory important scenes were much longer, and there was more sex talk, and a bigger deal when she was finally revealed as a woman. I guess when I was a kid, I just imagined more, stopping to see things in my head, and dream about how I would have felt in the same place? I also identified with Alanna a lot when I was a kid, because for some stupid reason, I wanted to be a knight. And I knew women couldn't be knights, even when they DID exist. But... well, I loved the books then, and while it doesn't quite hold up, it is something that I will definitely put on my future children's bookshelves.