To start off my review I'm going to go over the plot of the first book Terrier. Beka is just staring her first year as a "Dog"- a member of the Provost guard- as puppy with trainers Goodwin and Tunstall, the best Dogs in the Cesspool- the very unsavory district of Corus- the capital- where Beka choose to go after being raised in the Provost's house. It follows her through her ups and downs as she gets used to the new life and soon she is dragged into a mystery of children going missing and dying by a some using the name of a legend- 'Shadow Snake'- and her best friend, wife of the son of the dirtiest criminal in the city Crookshanks, child is killed over some strange stones. Beka uses her strange magic over dust-spinners and hearing the ghosts of the dead on the backs of pigeons to connect the two cases together.
Bloodhound takes place little more than a year later when she's full-fledged dog and doesn't have a partner of her own, keeping getting place back with her trainers Goodwin and Tunstall. Counterfeits keep finding their way into good city gold and a revolt in the Cesspool takes place when the price of day-old bread rises. Tunstall is injured while breaking it up and is waylaid at home. Along the way she adopts an abused scent hound named Achoo. Goodwin and Beka are sent to Port Caynn under the cover of "Provost Pet" and "Crooked Dog" to track the false coins undercover. They get pulled into the city's Rogue Court and get the Rogue's, Pearl Skinner, eye on them. Add in some romance and it makes an interesting fast read.
Five out five because it overdid many of her other preceding series which I loved and am looking forward to finishing Mastiff, the third book in the series.
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