
A few people find out along the way, but, in the end, she becomes a knight. The story is about how she grew up pretending to be a boy while learning to be a knight. She traded places with her twin brother when they left to begin their training, as knights had to be men but mages could be either. Lioness Rampant, the last book in Pierce’s Th e Song of the Lioness series, is the story of a young girl, Alanna, who wanted to grow up and become a knight in the kingdom of Tortall instead of a mage. But regardless of what life I’m living, Tamora Pierce’s Lioness Rampant is always there. I feel like I’ve gotten the chance to live two lives. But since I have, my life has changed in many, many, wonderful ways. I was that positive that transitioning would never happen for me. I once told a dear friend in college that I would die a man. I started hormones around a year and a half ago, and, to be completely honest, I never thought that I would transition. Between being six and a half f oo t tall, and the trans pride flag sewed to the sleeve of my school lab-coat, it’s fairly obvious. This, if you see me, doesn’t really come as much of a surprise. Tortall is in terrible danger from all directions, with enemies great and small plotting to destroy everyone and everything Alanna loves.I’m a trans wom a n. She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for good-but only in the right hands.


Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needs…but Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when she is challenged with the impossible. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures are already legendary.

Edwards Award.Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next.

