Tamora Pierce is an author who has written tons of books set in a fantasy realm known as Tortall. Terrier is the latest of them, featuring a better character and more interesting storyline. The setting is a few hundred years previous to any of the other books, tying in with the history of a character mentioned in an earlier book unrelated to Terrier. In Terrier, Beka Cooper is a trainee for the Provost’s Guard, the law enforcement organization in Tortall. The book deals with the finding of a mass murderer who strikes several times during the book…and is hiding in plain site. It takes awhile to figure out who the “Shadow Snake” is, but you can figure it out if you think right.

Terrier is one of Tamora Pierce’s best books (not to mention one of the longest). Some of her earlier ones were kind of…bleh. One thing I don’t like about Terrier is it’s lack of magic. What’s a fantasy book without tons of magic? Some of Pierce’s books are loaded with magic, though personally I still think Terrier is better (it still can’t compete with Harry Potter though ).

Read Minerva66 of BookAdvice.net’s take.

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