Mastiff
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Our view
“Mastiff” closes Tamora Pierce’s “Provost’s Dog” trilogy with an engrossing and darker hunt. Like the earlier volumes, it is the diary of Beka Cooper, a young guardswoman of Tortall, kept in her own private code. Some readers find it a satisfying ending; others miss the friends from the first volume and dislike a turn that seems to bend a character to the plot. Long-time readers will find Pierce’s strong characters and well-planted plot threads intact.
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About the book
Mastiff is the third novel in Tamora Pierce's Provost's Dog trilogy, released in 2011 by Penguin Random House. It follows a young Provost guard-woman in a fantasy kingdom called Tortall. The novel, as with all the Beka Cooper books, is written in first person diary form. The actual diary is said to be written in a mixture of Dog code and Beka's personal code.
Reading order · Provost's Dog
Full order & progress →- TerrierStart here
8.18.1 / 10 - Bloodhound
8.18.1 / 10 - MastiffThis book
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 86 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 86 | 100% |
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