Mastiff: The Legend of Beka Cooper #3
by:
Tamora Pierce (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009BL0X7E
Publish date: October 25th 2011
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
Series: Beka Cooper (#3)
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...
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