Mortification Scale: 4 Tomato Faces
- 1 TF for children's book
- 2nd TF for fantasy novel
- 3rd for embarrassing cover
- 4th for embarrassing back cover
- Return to the world of Tortall
- Interesting speculation on what early police work involved (seems authentic from what I've read in the past about the Bow Street Runners)
- Good read
Tamora Pierce returns to the world of Tortall a couple hundred years before the events from the Lioness Quartet, The Immortals Quartet, The Protector of the Small Quartet, and the Trickster Duology. Here, we meet Beka Cooper, George Cooper's great-great-grandmother, as she joins the Provost's Guards as an apprentice policewoman. She is just starting her year's training as a "puppy" with a pair of "dogs" in the slums of the Lower City.
Over the course of the story, Beka helps to solve two mysterious crimes with the help of some friendly thieves, a few dozen ghosts (who happen to ride around on pigeons), and her cat (who is either a constellation or a god). The story took a little longer to get into than some of Ms. Pierce's last books, but was over 500 pages long, allowing plenty of time to become engrossed. Beka is another great heroine/role model and I'm so sad that the next installation of Beka's story will not be available until April of 2009. :(
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