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More details about us. Passwod Reset New account. Log in. Find A book. Beka is consumed with guilt for barely mourning her recently deceased betrothed, a five-year Lower City Day Watch Dog named Holborn, whom we never meet. That night, she is roused and sent off to the king and queen's Summer Palace with her partner, Matthias Tunstall, her scent hound, Achoo, and her immortal cat Pounce.
They discover that raiders had come to the palace with inside help and stolen the young Prince Gareth. Beka, Tunstall, and Achoo follow the scent of the prince after a Blue Harbor Kennel Mage named Farmer Cape discovers that most of the raiders had been purposefully drowned by mages and only a small group escaped. Advertising Download Read Online. Instead, these wobbles feel like the strains of authorial fiat. Beka could and should have caught that moment: the blindness and disasters that followed would then have been tragedy, instead of unintended farce.
Then too, the epilogues feel a bit like a purple neon finger pointing at the Alanna quartet. This is an intelligent book, though the characters don't always live up to the story. The detective magics are interesting and employed to good effect. As with all the series, there's real textural detail to the setting, and Beka herself has a fascinating view of Tortall.
Now I realize that I have to rate this book as compared to all the other books out there. James on their best day. I bought it back in October on its release date; I had waited for so long because I loved Terrier and Bloodhound and I was psyched to read Mastiff. I am an avid reader and have read everything of Tamora Pierce's that I can get my hands on.
Some of my books are about to split from having read them so many times. This book makes me angry, angry enough to write a review of it because I think people should read Terrier and Bloodhound and then imagine Beka and her friends' future for themselves. I was disappointed when I discovered that Beka's latest escapade would not take place in Corus like Terrier. I enjoyed the fact that Bloodhound was in Port Caynn because that gave the readers a chance to see how Beka works without Pounce and without her safety net.
I was hoping that Mastiff would truly come full circle and have a large portion of the action in Corus so we could catch up with old friends like Ersken, Rosto, Kora, Aniki and so we could see how Goodwin is doing in her new job. Much of the storyline felt like an updated, slightly changed, version of Kel's Lady Knight. With all the other Tortallan books we have enough dealings with the nobility and royalty.
I enjoyed the fact that Beka's books were set in the "muck and ice" and dealt primarily with the commoners with the exception of Lord Gershom, Sir Tullus, Lady Teodorie and Lady Sabine and her friends. Bringing back a king and queen felt redundant. Prince Baird bore more than a slight resemblance to Prince Bronau of Trickster's Choice, being a lady's man, power hungry and willing to kidnap the heir.
Another problem, for me, was that the tone of the book didn't feel like Ms. I had read about her having surgery or something of that nature and I began to wonder if perhaps she hired a ghostwriter in order to make the deadline.
Beka's voice didn't sound like Beka's voice and she was not the same kind girl we had met. Her tone towards the nobility was really snotty and Pounce's observations, while usually wickedly funny, also seemed nasty.
Tunstall and Lady Sabine didn't sound like the people we had met in the previous novels either and I don't know how else to say it but their speech patterns were different. I found it strange that Beka was willing to call Lady Sabine "Sabine". She's always been so respectful, especially around the nobility and in a few weeks she gives that up? And Tunstall was incredibly rude to Farmer, which struck me as odd because I have never known him to be so disrespectful to anyone, especially a fellow Dog.
That also made me predispositioned to dislike Farmer because I trusted Tunstall's judgment. The heavy-handed method used to decry slavery was too much but Melting Stones also was quite heavy-handed in its portrayal of protecting the environment.
These two books seem to be so issue driven that character development and the plot are sacrificed. I think that the Trickster series, which dealt with race relations, was a much better example of how to address an important issue without hammering it home.
Another great instance of a particular issue being dealt with is how the Circle series handled Daja being a lesbian, by not making an issue of it at all. But back to Mastiff, Ms. Pierce has always made a point of using made up swear words with minor exceptions like "bitch" which makes sense in this particular world.
Beka and Goodwin are dogs and are females and female dogs are bitches so it's a fitting insult to use against them. However, in Mastiff, there are regular 4 letter swear words that took me out of the setting and brought me back to modern day and that felt off. Purchase and download 3D models, stream and print with your own 3D printer, or buy 3D-printed product - we will 3D print and ship it to your home.
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