I get the problems, but I liked it. Beka Cooper, the ancestress of George Cooper of later books, deals with the problems of love that wasn't, losing a partner, finding love, being betrayed and rescuing a prince. She's a great character and I liked how it was done. Yes I would have liked to know h...
12/8/13 ** re-re-read6/1/13 ** Re-read8/18/12 ** One of the things that I most enjoy about Pierce is the way she tackles issues in our own world within the context of her fantasy world. In Beka Cooper: Mastiff, the third book in Beka's trilogy, Pierce addresses the issue of slavery, particularly ch...
I liked this one less than the first two in the trilogy. It was long–I thought unnecessarily–and I was annoyed by the one-dimensional portrayal of traditionally feminine women. But more than that, the emotional beats didn’t quite work. I should have cared a lot more about what was happening to Beka ...
I think this book could stand alone, but I'd still recommend reading at least the two books that come before in the trilogy, Terrier and Bloodhound, if not the Alanna novels to which this is a prequel. This is a mix of genres that meld well together. It's high fantasy, set in an imaginary magical-...
The interesting thing about the Beka Cooper trilogy is that even though it is a fantasy, it doesn’t necessarily feel like a fantasy. There are so many real-life connections in this trilogy that even a someone who isn’t a fan of fantasy will get lost in the story. In fact, it’s been called a police p...
With this last book, Pierce closes out the story of Beka Cooper. Never a fan of epistolary novels, I found I enjoyed these books despite the journalling conceit. Still, jumping into Beka's life with so much lost time between stories is no where near as satisfying of a reading experience for me. F...
The king's only son is kidnapped, and Beka Cooper and her partner Tunstall are charged with finding him. From the first, it's clear that this was an inside job, and as the case continues, more and more obstacles are thrown in the Dogs' way. They must battle through swamps, ambushes, and controllin...
Ok, a note to people who’ve read the whole series but, like me, didn’t remember everything that happened in Bloodhound because it’s been so long since it came out - Holbourn is not a character you should know! The beginning of this book started out at a funeral and I spent a good deal of the first 2...
This book took me a little over six months to read... but to be fair that's mainly because I had just had a baby who was (and is) happily demanding of my time. I'm now, however, finding more time to read and I plowed through the last few chapters.Epic. I find Beka a really wonderful heroine, I lov...
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