#87 in Young adult
Terrier
- 581
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Terrier” works as a fantasy police procedural: the investigation at its centre is well handled and tense when it needs to be. Tamora Pierce tells it in Beka Cooper’s own voice and surrounds her with characters some readers warm to, a cat among them. It opens the “Provost’s Dog” trilogy, two centuries before the main Tortall novels. A reader meeting Pierce for the first time as an adult may find it pleasant and no more.
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About the book
Terrier is a young adult fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the first book in the Provost's Dog trilogy and the fifteenth book set in the Tortall Universe. It tells the story of Rebakah "Beka" Cooper, the ancestor of George Cooper from Song of the Lioness and Alianne from Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen. It is set 200 years prior to the bulk of the Tortall novels.
Reading order · Provost's Dog
Full order & progress →- TerrierThis book
8.18.1 / 10 - Bloodhound
8.18.1 / 10 - Mastiff
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 160 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 11 | 7% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 21 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 128 | 80% |
Frequently asked
What age is Terrier for?
Terrier sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 581 pages — longer than 56% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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