this is the tale of a spunky little girl who wants to be a knight. her parents and brother are wizards/sorcerors/magicians (i can’t remember what they’re called specifically) and all she wants to do is swordplay and riding horses. not that anyone is pressuring her to do magic instead. in fact, no one seems to pressure her to do anything she doesn’t want to do. for being a book about knights and sieges and jousting, there’s not really much dire danger in this book–which is kind of refreshing for this genre. well read, too.