So, um, fun fact, I’ve never actually read the rest of this series. Just the first one. (Why did I have a Tortall bias? Why did I avoid the Emelan books for so long? Why am I so odd? The world may never know.) Anyway, because COVID is a thing that makes libraries hard to access and money/shelf-space is a thing that makes just buying everything I remotely want to read a bad idea, I’ve been going through what I already own for some new stuff. And since my husband rereads Tamora Pierce and really likes the Emelan books, I decided it was time for a (re)read.
Anyway, there’s something extremely delightful about reading a book by an author you know well about characters you are already invested in. Easy reading isn’t precisely the right language, but it’s not far off either. Comfort brain food maybe?