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 On some levels Lioness Rampant always made me sad whenever I read it. Not only because it was the final book in this wonderful series, but because Alanna doesn't end up with Jonathan like I had been hoping for when I was younger. Now that I'm older, I really like Alanna's character development in this book. She does accept her magic as a part of her. She does realize that there are things that she cannot control. She accepts that Jonathan and her will never be anything more than friends - and her his Champion. And that even though she likes adventuring, at some point in her life she wants to settle down. She just has to figure out with who.