The opening of the book, Mastiff by Tamora Pierce, had me very confused: I was like, "When did I skip a book?". It's set four years after the first one at the funeral of Beka's fiance. On the night of his funeral, she gets a midnight visitor and is whisked away to the Summer Palace to meet the king and queen of Tortall. The prince was kidnapped! Only Beka, Tunstall, Lady Sabine, and a mage named Farmer are trusted enough by Lord Greshom to track the kidnappers down and bring the boy back down, but they have a traitor in their midst. Is it Farmer, who Beka has an instant connection with? Sabine who she had admired for four years? Or Tunstall, her partner and friend who has been a father and brother to her?
5 out of 5!!!! It has some slow parts in the middle, but the action always picks up when I thought, "When is something going to happen?" It was a great end to a great trilogy, but I can't help think "Is this the last book?" There were hints of more to come, so I would be very disappointed if she doesn't revisit this era and character.
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