Briar's Book

Usually authors don't portray a male character loving someone so much, he doesn't want to see them in pain. But Tamora Pierce did. And I think she got closer to the human truth of it all than others. In this book we finally get to see things mostly from Briar's experience, the only boy in a household of women. Loyal to the end, he prefers being with plants and eating the wonderful food provided by Gorse. After an earthquake, pirates, and wildfires Briar's loyalty and love only develop further as he comes to learn, that there is only so much you can do.

Brown