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A review by stressedspidergirl
Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records by Tamora Pierce
3.0
I was legitimately disappointed with this series the first time I read it. I was so excited in the first two books, and then by book 3 I felt like I'd been thrown all these curve balls that made no sense. I didn't understand Farmer, I didn't see the romance (I still don't, rereading it), and I always wonder what happened between the first and second books of the series, with Beka's fiance etc.
To be honest, after such a great start, and then even with all the questions left unanswered for me, I really liked the second book, too. So I wish I knew what went on in the third, or why it wasn't a quartet, or why Tunstall went darkside, etc, because none of it fits in for me the way it should.
I love Beka, I love that the cat statue on George's family shrine had purple eyes, and all the small details about the Cooper family, and I really felt connected to the story, the characters, and everything else, and then... felt like I got left behind. I keep looking for hints the romance is building, trying to find it and it just doesn't make it for me.
Not looking to argue, but out of all of the books by Pierce that I've read, these ones leave me the emptiest. And I often times wonder what became of Aly after the Raka took their home back.
So for me, it's a good read in terms of getting to the end, the politics, and intrigue and dogwork, but I feel like we lost a lot of who and what Beka was and that there should have been more. (Don't we always though?) Either way I have a lot of mixed feelings about these and I do feel let down every time I finish when I do a Tortall re-read.
To be honest, after such a great start, and then even with all the questions left unanswered for me, I really liked the second book, too. So I wish I knew what went on in the third, or why it wasn't a quartet, or why Tunstall went darkside, etc, because none of it fits in for me the way it should.
I love Beka, I love that the cat statue on George's family shrine had purple eyes, and all the small details about the Cooper family, and I really felt connected to the story, the characters, and everything else, and then... felt like I got left behind. I keep looking for hints the romance is building, trying to find it and it just doesn't make it for me.
Not looking to argue, but out of all of the books by Pierce that I've read, these ones leave me the emptiest. And I often times wonder what became of Aly after the Raka took their home back.
So for me, it's a good read in terms of getting to the end, the politics, and intrigue and dogwork, but I feel like we lost a lot of who and what Beka was and that there should have been more. (Don't we always though?) Either way I have a lot of mixed feelings about these and I do feel let down every time I finish when I do a Tortall re-read.