Outside of a Dog: Pierce, Tamora: (117) Mastiff

Beth

Beth wrote on January 23, 2012 at 11:40 PM:

I liked it a bit more than you because I thought it had a theme -- the loss of trust. Beka and her fiance, Beka and her friends, the king and the nobles, each involved the testing and breaking of trust that should have been absolute. And I liked her dealing with mourning about losing her love, not losing the guy, which was awkward when he died anyway.

Oh, and also, slavery is bad. In case anyone was wondering.

But yeah, it was about a pound of book in a five pound sack. I didn't bother handing it on to my 13 year old.

Kate

Kate wrote on January 24, 2012 at 1:28 AM:

Beth, all you say is entirely accurate, and yet.

wrote on January 24, 2012 at 8:16 AM:

I feel like there was quite a lot of walking and not enough character development. I also thought it was sad that it moved away from an urban environment to a rural one, as I really enjoyed Beka's connection to the city in the previous two books.

Kate

Kate wrote on January 24, 2012 at 7:37 PM:

Anon, good point about the rural (and also if you put anything at all in the "name" field next time, it will help keep your comment from going into spam).

Beth

Beth wrote on January 30, 2012 at 11:43 PM:

Oh, one thing I appreciated was the specific note that Pounce was the same cat that shows up in the Alanna stories. I remember complaining about all the purple-eyed super special cats, so at least there's only one immortal one. Um, is this a spoiler? I can't see that it makes any difference.

I should probably have just told my kid to read the last few pages, with the flash-forward to George.

Kate

Kate wrote on January 31, 2012 at 3:36 AM:

It never occurred to me that it might be a different cat!