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| name= Terrier |
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| universe= Tortall |
| universe= Tortall |
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| protagonist= [[Rebakah Cooper]] |
| protagonist= [[Rebakah Cooper]] |
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| antagonist= The [[Shadow Snake]], [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]] |
| antagonist= The [[Shadow Snake]], [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]] |
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| − | | setting= [[Corus]] in 246 [[HE]] |
+ | | setting= '''[[Tortall]]''' ([[Corus]] in 246 [[Human Era|HE]]) |
| cover_artist= Jonathan Barkat |
| cover_artist= Jonathan Barkat |
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+ | | publisher=Random House |
| − | | release_date= Oct. 24, 2006 |
+ | | release_date= Oct. 24, 2006 {{comment|hardcover and audio book}}<br />Oct. 23, 2007 {{comment|paperback}} |
| + | | pages= 592 {{comment|hardcover}}<br />608 {{comment|paperback}} |
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| series= [[Provost's Dog]] |
| series= [[Provost's Dog]] |
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| followed_by= [[Bloodhound]] |
| followed_by= [[Bloodhound]] |
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| − | '''''Terrier''''' is book one in the |
+ | '''''Terrier''''' is book one in the ''Rebekah Cooper'' trilogy by [[Tamora Pierce]]. It centers around protagonist Rebakah Cooper, ancestor of [[Eleni Cooper]] and [[George Cooper]]. Her story takes place about 200 years before ''[[Alanna: The First Adventure]]''. The book is about Beka's first weeks as a puppy, or trainee, in the [[Provost's Guard]]. |
==Synopsis== |
==Synopsis== |
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| − | Beka Cooper is placed with Senior Dogs [[Matthias Tunstall]] and [[Clara Goodwin]], two dogs famous for their work in the [[Lower City]]. Soon, they begin investigating the murder of three-year-old [[Rolond Lofts]], son of Beka's friend [[Tansy Lofts]] and great-grandson of |
+ | [[File:Tpt1_Danish.jpg|thumb|left|136px|Danish cover for the first part of ''Terrier'']]Beka Cooper is placed with Senior Dogs [[Matthias Tunstall]] and [[Clara Goodwin]], two dogs famous for their work in the [[Lower City]]. Soon, they begin investigating the murder of three-year-old [[Rolond Lofts]], son of Beka's friend [[Tansy Lofts]] and great-grandson of Ammon "Crookshank" Lofts, a rich criminal. This leads them to the realization that many children have been kidnapped and held for ransom in the last three years. If the child's parents pay the ransom, usually a valuable item in the parents' possession (such as a lily necklace, a ruby pendant, fire opals, curses, etc...), their child is returned to them. If not, the child is killed, and they have a new week to pay. |
| − | Supposedly, the villain behind these kidnappings is the |
+ | Supposedly, the villain behind these kidnappings is the Shadow Snake, a being from a legend used to scare young children into behaving. Beka, however, does not believe this and sets out to learn what's really happening. |
| − | Meanwhile, things are unstable in the court of the [[Rogue]], a league of criminals. [[Kayfer Deerborn]], the current king of the Rogue, is old and frail, and young hopefuls flock into town. Notably, one such hopeful, [[Rosto the Piper]], and his two female friends, become friends with |
+ | Meanwhile, things are unstable in the court of the [[Rogue]], a league of criminals. [[Kayfer Deerborn]], the current king of the Rogue, is old and frail, and young hopefuls flock into town. Notably, one such hopeful, [[Rosto the Piper]], and his two female friends, become friends with Beka. |
| − | Soon, Beka realizes that the |
+ | Soon, Beka realizes that the Shadow Snake, or whomever is posing as the snake, is not the only crook working on a large scale lately. She suspects Crookshank of hiring workers to dig up rare fire opals from him - and killing the workers afterwards. However, there is little proof for either mystery and Beka, as a puppy, cannot go after them as she would like. Still, she continues to hunt for clues. |
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| − | The Prologue itself is divided into three journal entries. |
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| − | The first entry is taken from [[Eleni Cooper]]'s journal of March 18, 406 [[HE]]. She has just fetched her son [[George Cooper|George]] from the local guard station because he has been caught stealing. As Eleni wants her son to become a respectable citizen she tells him of their famous ancestress, [[Rebakah Cooper]], who was a guardswoman and strict about abiding to the law, in the hope that George will take her as an example. |
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| − | It follows an entry from [[Ilony Cooper]]'s journal of November 13, 240 [[HE]]. Ilony is the mother of [[Rebakah Cooper]] and worried for her daughter because Beka claims that the [[pigeons]] talk to her. Ilony takes Rebakah to [[Fern Cooper]], Beka's grandmother, who tells them that Beka isn't mad but has a strange kind of magic which allows her to hear the dead spirits who ride on the pigeons. The spirits hold on to the pigeons when they are not ready to pass on and Fern tells Rebakah that they may have information which can be useful to her. Fern adds that Beka can not only hear dead spirits but also the voices caught on breezes which the [[dust spinners]] collect. Finally Fern invites Rebakah to come to her regularly so Fern can teach her how to use her magic. |
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| − | The last journal entry was written by [[Matthias Tunstall]] on November 13 of 244 [[HE]]. [[Gershom of Haryse|Lord Gershom]] invited Tunstall, a guardsman in the [[Provost's Guard]], and his partner [[Clara Goodwin]] to dinner at Naxen's Fancy, a fine eating house, because they arrested Bloody Jock, a murderer, rapist and thief. They as Lord Gershom how he managed to arrest the [[Bold Brass gang]] in 238 HE. The gang had been committing burglary for about a year before they were finally imprisoned. Lord Gershom tells them that neither of the rumours which they had heard was true. In fact it was a eight-year-old girl, [[Rebakah Cooper]], who told him where to find the Bold Brass gang. Afterwards Lord Gershom took the Coopers in to live at his household as thanks and because Beka's mother, [[Ilony Cooper]], was deadly ill. |
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| − | ===April 1, 246=== |
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| − | [[Rebakah Cooper]] begins writing her journal and gives some general information about herself. This is her first day of duty and she is highly enthusiastic that she will be successful at her work. |
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| − | When Beka arrives at the guard station and meets her fellow trainees of whom only [[Ersken Westover]], [[Verene]] and [[Hilyard]] are named it is revealed that Beka is the only one of them who is glad that she was assigned to the [[Lower City]]. While the first Puppy, [[Ersken Westover|Ersken]], is assigned to his training Dogs, a woman enters and asks about the murder of little [[Rolond Lofts]]. [[Kebibi Ahuda|Ahuda]] tells her that they don't know who strangled the boy, yet, but that his great-grandfather, [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]] had made enough enemies in his lifetime. The investigation of the boys death was given to [[Nyler Jewel]] and [[Osgyth Yoav]], one of the best Dog pairs in the Lower City. However, they wouldn't search very hard for the murderer as Yoav, too, holds a grudge against Crookshank, as her sister committed suicide on behalf of him. After the woman left the assignment of the Trainees to their training Dogs continues. Beka is the last one who gets to know who her partners are. To her surprise she is going to work with [[Clara Goodwin]] and [[Matthias Tunstall]], two of the best Dogs in the [[Lower City]]. Her new partners are just as surprised and take this news quite differently. While Goodwin is furious and doesn't want a Puppy at all, Tunstall takes it calmly and is content with having a trainee. |
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| − | As [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] doesn't succeed in refusing to take [[Rebakah Cooper|Beka]] as their Puppy, they leave together for their first night on duty. Before they get far, however, [[The Cat#Pounce|Pounce]] introduces himself to Beka's new partners. Although irritated at the beginning, Goodwin can't help it but being just as intrigued and charmed by Beka's pet as Tunstall. Thus they continue on their way to [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]]. They pass the [[Nightmarket]], where they meet [[Deirdry Noll]]. Mistress Noll mentions her acquaintance to Rebakah and Goodwin and Tunstall ask if she saw anything related to the murder of the little [[Rolond Lofts]], but the old baker says that she didn't see or hear of anything related to it. She claims she would tell the Dogs, if anything came to her about it. |
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| − | After having some pastries given to them for three [[Rebakah Cooper|Beka]] and her training Dogs are on their way again to visit [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]]. While [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] and [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] talk to Crookshank, Beka goes to see her friend [[Tansy Lofts]], who lives in the same house and is half mad with grief for her dead son, [[Rolond Lofts|Rolond]]. The pregnant woman only begins to eat and see reason again after Beka dumps a pitcher with water on her. Shortly before Beka has to leave again, Tansy tells her of a rock that her husband, [[Herun Lofts]], gave her the day before her son was taken. She says that the stone brought bad luck with it, even though Herun claims that the stone will make them rich. Because Tansy doesn't want it anymore, she gives the stone to Beka. After this Beka and her training Dogs are on their way again. |
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| − | They break a brawl on the [[Nightmarket]] up and decide they earned their supper afterwards, thus continue on to the [[Mantel and Pullet]]. After having some trouble while getting the ale for her training partners and meeting a man who is new to [[Corus]], [[Rebakah Cooper|Beka]] tells [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] and [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] about her discussion with [[Tansy Lofts|Tansy]] and shows them the stone. Even the experienced Dogs don't know what sort of stone it is. |
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| − | Beka begins this day with writing what happened after she and her partners had something to eat the previous night. She is embarrased because she gave chase to a cutpurse, all eager to catch him and prove how good she already is at her work, but misses his lookout, who tripps her. Thus she falls in a pile of fish garbage, which causes quite a few jokes on her behalf the following days and her her self-esteem to sink. |
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| − | [[Rebakah Cooper|Rebakah]] begins her next day with feeding the [[pigeons]] in [[Glassman Square]] to hear if their ghosts have something new for her. Her pigeons don't have any major information that day, only a little bit about a boy being kidnapped and held together with two other children before being killed. Beka also pays a short visit to her grandmother, [[Fern Cooper]], that afternoon. |
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| − | Before Beka and her partners can go on collecting the [[Happy Bag]] from the [[Court of the Rogue]], they go to see the mage on duty, [[Fulk]]. They present him the stone Beka got from [[Tansy Lofts]] the night before but Fulk tells them that it is worthless. He wants to keep it for further testing but [[The Cat#Pounce|Pounce]] jumps on Fulk, making the mage drop the stone. It slides through a whole in the floor and is seemingly lost. [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] and [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] are quite surprised when they are on their way to the Court of the Rogue and Pounce appears with the lost stone. |
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| − | They continue to the [[Court of the Rogue]] where they have a short encounter with [[Deirdry Noll]], who is there with her son to persuade [[Kayfer Deerborn]] to give up some of the good flour he has bought as she didn't get any. While waiting for the [[Rogue]] to talk to them [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] has a conversation with the chief of [[Prettybone District]] and [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] and [[Rebakah Cooper|Beka]] meet [[Rosto the Piper]] and his two girlfriends [[Aniki Forfrysning]] and [[Koramin Ingensra]]. They are new in [[Corus]] and claim that they just want to be entertained although Goodwin thinks that they may want to challenge the Rogue. Their conversation is interrupted however when [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]] arrives and accuses Deerborn of being the [[Shadow Snake]]. Although Deerborn rejects these charges Crookshank tries to stab the Rogue. Rosto steps in and saves Deerborn's live, which gives Rosto a good start at the Court of the Rogue. While Goodwin and Tunstall collect the Happy Bag from the Rogue Rosto and his two friends begin a conversation with Beka. |
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| − | After they have passed the Happy Bag on, Beka and her partners are on their way again. They are called to a family with a drunk and violent mother, the Ashmillers. [[Orva Ashmiller]] hits Goodwin, which breaks her jaw, and flees. Beka sets after her and subsequently catches her after chasing Orva through the whole of the [[Cesspool]]. Beka arrests her and brings her back to Jane Street kennel, where Goodwin is treated by a healer. |
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| − | Goodwin, Tunstall and Beka have something to eat at the [[Mantel and Pullet]] and speculate about Crookshank, the Shadow Snake and the Rogue. Finally they continue their patrol of the Cesspool and when they are finished Beka's legs hurt terribly. |
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| − | Beka begins her day with visiting the [[dust spinners]] of the Lower City. They don't have anything specific for her but Hasfush was really disturbed because he had the noises of seven to nine murders, all at once, in himself. Beka visits two other spinners who have collected breezes which had caught noises of the murder. |
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| − | She is interrupted by Tunstall who arrives and tells her that they are to go to see a mage who can tell them about the stones. The mage turns out to be [[Jungen Berryman]]. He works for the Gem Merchant's Guild and has experience with gemstones. He tells them that the stones are very rare and valuable [[fire opal|fire opals]]. There is even an auction of fire opals to be held in July although normally only a handful of these stones enter a market every year. |
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| − | Shortly after duty for the Evening Watch begins fire is set to the house of [[Ammon Lofts|Crookshank]]. While Beka helps getting the people out Goodwin searches Crookshank's rooms. [[The Cat|Pounce]] opens a hidden compartment to reveal notes written by the [[Shadow Snake]] and adressed to Crookshank. In these notes the Snake demands fire opals. As Crookshank didn't pay up his great-grandson [[Rolond Lofts|Rolond]] was taken and killed, when Crookshank still refused to pay. The notes also reveal that the Snake isn't done with Crookshank, yet. |
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| − | Outside [[Tansy Lofts|Tansy]] tells Beka that her son wasn't the only victim of the Shadow Snake. She points a dozen more families in the crowd out who were targeted by the Snake. When she hears Beka can't believe that the Dogs didn't do anything about it but Tunstall and Goodwin explain to her that there aren't enough of them to do their everyday work, let alone search for missing children. Often the parents sell the children to the slave traders themselves or kill them. Beka swears to herself that she will put a stop to it and catch the Shadow Snake. |
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| − | This is the first day on which Beka hears the spirits of the dead diggers. It is also the day on which [[Rosto the Piper]], [[Aniki Forfrysning]] and [[Koramin Ingensra]] move into Beka's lodging house. She gets immediately friendly with Kora and Aniki but doesn't quite know what she should make of Rosto's living in the same house with her. [[Verene]], [[Phelan Rapp|Phelan]] and [[Erksen Westover|Ersken]] also arrive, wanting to make sure that Beka doesn't spend her whole day alone. Together the seven have their first breakfast together on Beka's floor. When Beka and Ersken go to get some more food she enlists his help in getting information about the Shadow Snake. |
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| − | Beka and her partners have a mostly quiet night on their watch. They raid an illegal slave auction, Beka being able to capture one of the leaders, who wanted to escape through the side entrance where Beka was stationed. However they get into trouble near the end of Evening Watch, when a brawl in the [[Barrel's Bottom]] breaks out and Goodwin and Tunstall try to get order into things. They are outnumbered seven to one. Thus it is lucky that [[Sabine of Macayhill]], a lady knight, is present and sides with them. When the Dogs from Night Watch arrive - the watch has changed by then - the four of them quickly leave, letting the Night Watch do the rest. While Beka goes to her lodgings Tunstall and Goodwin decide they will grab something to eat together with Lady Sabine. |
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| − | This day isn't quite eventful. Beka and her friends have breakfast in her room, where [[Verene]] shares the newest gossip. One of which is the news of a dead Dog, who had been on the other side of the law. There is a new pigeon, too, [[Mumper]], who carries one of the dead digger's ghosts, although he doesn't have any new information. This nights duty is also uneventful. For the most part only small-time criminals. |
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| − | It's Court Day. This means that Beka doesn't have duty that day. Instead she spends the whole day in the [[Magistrate's Court]], mostly witnessing the testimonies of other Dogs on their captures throughout the week. However, she has to report on one case herself. It is the rule that the Dog who was there for the whole process of capturing a criminal makes the report. In the case of [[Orva Ashmiller]] that would be Beka. She is very intimidated by speaking in front of all the people present and the reputation of the Magistrate, [[Tullus of King's Reach|Sir Tullus]], of not having much patience, doesn't help, either. In the end [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] has to get up and do the beginning of the report, although this, too, would be Beka's job. She manages her part with much stammering and is very glad when she can be seated again. |
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| − | ===April 7, 246=== |
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| − | It is Tuesday, Beka's day off. She decides to visit her brothers and sisters at Provost's House. On her arrival she is heartily welcomed by [[Jakorn]], one of her first teachers and also one of [[Gershom of Haryse|Lord Gershom's]] personal guards, and [[Myaral Fane]], her adoptive aunt and the cook at Provost's House. The welcome she receives by her sisters isn't as heartily. They are with [[Teodorie of Haryse|Lady Teodorie's]] other maids and although they make no jokes on Beka's expense like their companions, they don't stand up to her, either. They don't even really welcome her and also refuse to hug Beka. The conversation with Lady Teodorie doesn't go well, either. The Lady tells Beka how she brought shame to all of them with her poor performance in the [[Magistrate's Court]] the preceding day. It is clear that Lady Teodorie still disapproves of Beka's being a Dog; as it is clear that she has still hope that Beka may change her mind, in which case she would be all too ready at helping Beka as good as she can. |
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| − | After she is dismissed from the lady's presence Beka decides to go feeding the [[pigeons]]. They have news for her, or at least some further information on the dead diggers, of whom Beka already knew. She learns that there were nine diggers, all of whom are present as ghosts in orchard, where she feeds the pigeons. They can't give her any real information about where they were killed or by whom. Some time after the pigeons are gone Lord Gershom comes and talks to Beka about the previous week. In this she realises that it has really only been her first week and that she did fairly well for it, even if she didn't do everything right from the first moment on. He also tells her to take three more items from the gear room, as she didn't take enough the last time. |
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| − | Her meeting with her brothers goes better than meeting her sisters. [[Nilo Cooper|Nilo]] is really enthusiastic about Beka and [[Willes Cooper|Will]] is also glad to see his oldest sister, once he returns from the [[Royal Palace|palace]], where he was doing his work as a messager. They have a good time until [[Diona Cooper|Diona]] and [[Lorine Cooper|Lorine]] arrive. An argument starts when Diona tries to slap Nilo and Beka prevents her from doing it. Beka leaves after the head hostler told them off for making such noise in the stables. |
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| − | On her way home Beka meets [[Mother Cantwell]], a beggar. She catches her at stealing and they strike a bargain. Beka won't arrest Mother Cantwell, who will in return keep her ears open for news of the [[Shadow Snake]] or more diggers being hired. Before Beka goes to her lodgings she passes by [[Deirdry Noll|Mistress Noll's]] shop on [[Daymarket]] to get some food for their next breakfast. There she doesn't only meet [[Gemma Noll]], Mistress Noll's youngest daughter, but also [[Yates Noll]]. He gets violent against Beka and only leaves after [[Sabine of Macayhill|Lady Sabine]] also arrives. After an advice to Gemma to go to the temple of the [[Great Mother Goddess]] for help as she shows several bruises, most probably from her brother, Beka and Lady Sabine part, Beka bound for her lodgings. |
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| − | This morning at breakfast Beka tells all of her friends about the Shadow Snake and the vanished diggers. All of them promise to keep their eyes and ears open, surprising Beka by their willingness to help. |
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| − | Later that day, when she is on duty with Goodwin and Tunstall, they are on [[Nightmarket]]. There they visit the booth of Mistress Noll, who apologizes in the name of her son for the incident the preceding evening. All are surprised when Beka's friend [[Tansy Lofts|Tansy]] arrives. She still wears mourning for her dead son and seems to be on the brink of tears. She is accompanied by a maid, whose name is [[Vrinday Kayu]] and who seems to be rather a mage than a maid. [[Inky]], the [[pigeons|pigeon]] who has been carrying the ghost of [[Rolond Lofts|Rolond]], comes. Rolond wants to talk to his mother so badly that he takes control over the pigeon. Tansy is startled by the bird and even more so, when she suddenly hears her dead son's voice because she is touching Beka. She tells Rolond that he is dead and must move on, which he eventually does, finally finding his peace with the [[Black God]]. Afterwards Vrinday Kayu accompanies Tansy home and Beka and her partners are on their way again through the Nightmarket. |
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| − | Over supper they decide to pay [[Dawull]], the [[Rogue]]'s chief of [[Waterfront District]], a visit as they suspect him of being bribed by [[Crookshank]]. On their way to Dawull they encounter [[Sabine of Macayhill|Lady Sabine]] and two of her fellow [[Knight of Tortall|knights]], who decide to go with them to Dawull. The confrontation with the Rogue's chief doesn't bring them any new information and of course Dawull denies having anything to do with Crookshank. [[Aniki Forfrysning|Aniki]], who works for Dawull, sits with them for some time and gets friendly with Lady Sabine. After their watch [[Matthias Tunstall|Tunstall]] returns and it is later revealed that he even danced with Lady Sabine, while [[Clara Goodwin|Goodwin]] still disapproves of their initiating affair. |
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| − | In the morning [[Koramin Ingensra|Kora]] tells [[Rebakah Cooper|Beka]] about a woman she met while doing the laundry whose neighbour's child had been taken by the [[Shadow Snake]]. Both young women visit the woman. She tells them that the Snake demanded a lily pendant for the child but doesn't have any other really helpful information. After returning to her lodging house Beka remembers how [[Gershom of Haryse|Lord Gershom]] handles complicated cases which is by doing maps. Thus Beka herself makes a map which shows where the victims of the Snake were took and where they were found. |
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| − | On their watch that evening didn't happen much. They collected the [[Happy Bag]] from the Rogue and had their regular duty afterwards. |
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| − | Beka doesn't write much in her journal on these days as she has a cold. Thus she only writes the most important things like new victims of the Shadow Snake, which she mostly gets from Aniki and Kora. |
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| − | It's Beka's free day again. However she decides against going to Provost's House. Instead she visits her grandmother, [[Fern Cooper]], who advises Beka to tell her Dogs about the maps she made to keep track of the Shadow Snake victims, and some of the Shadow Snake victims afterwards with Aniki and Kora. Two of the potential victims are revealed to having sold their children to slavers and just using the Shadow Snake as an excuse. |
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| − | When they muster for duty that day Beka follows her grandmother's advice and tells Tunstall and Goodwin about the maps. They give her some additional advice and tell her to make copies of her map for them and to keep those copies up-to-date. Afterwards Goodwin also wants to see Beka's [[dust spinners]]. Beka takes them to [[Hasfush]]. He had nothing new about the Snake or the dead diggers, but Beka got news of another murder from him. Goodwin and Tunstall called for two additional pairs of Dogs, including one of the scent-hounds, [[Achoo]], whose handler is [[Phelan Rapp|Phelan]]. Together they find the killer and learn that he killed the young dancer [[Esseny the Lily]]. They arrest him even though he has sought refuge at the [[Court of the Rogue]], which is normally not done as the Rogue's court is off-limits for Dogs. [[Kayfer Deerborn|Kayfer]] doesn't step in, however, and just hands the murderer over, although it would be his responsibility to protect him. |
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| − | Beka has some difficulties with making the maps for Goodwin and Tunstall and is concentrating on that. Thus her journal entries are much shorter than normally. On Sunday a woman comes to the [[Jane Street kennel|kennel]] confessing to having drowned her child because her new lover wouldn't move in with her then there was a child. It is found out that she told the truth but was magicked into confessing with the aid of truth- and compellingspells. Beka strongly suspects her friend [[Koramin Ingensra|Kora]] of being the mage behind it because she saw the woman some days previously sitting with Kora at a fountain and doing their laundry. When she returns home Kora near about confesses magicking the woman. |
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| − | On Monday is again Court Day. Fortunately for Beka she doesn't have to report on any cases that day because her Senior Dogs were with her at all arrests and thus do the talking that day. However, Beka's friend [[Tansy Lofts]] comes to talk to her again and gives her another [[fire opal]], which she herself got from her husband [[Herun Lofts|Herun]]. Beka gives the opal to Tunstall so he may take care of it. |
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| − | The following day Beka gets four new names of Shadow Snake victims from her grandmother. |
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| − | That day two more [[pigeons]] appeared at Beka's window. They carry the ghosts of two brothers who were killed the night before when they tried to kill [[Rosto the Piper]]. Beka also learns that Rosto's gang leader, [[Ulsa]], hired the brothers and thus deceived Rosto. After disputing with herself whether she should tell Rosto Beka decides in favor of him and shares her news with him. Later that day, when she and her Dogs are making a break at the [[Mantel and Pullet]], they learn further news about the matter. Apparently Ulsa claims to have nothing to do with it and even promoted Rosto to a better position in an effort to keep him on her good side. |
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| − | Beka is frustrated because she doesn't have any more news about the Shadow Snake or the dead diggers. She doesn't want to write any more in her journal until she has more news. However, she has to write some news down on Wednesday. She saw [[Ersken Westover|Ersken]] and [[Koramin Ingensra|Kora]] the day before and noticed that both were a couple. She asked Kora about [[Rosto the Piper|Rosto]], whose lover Kora was previously, but Kora told her that Rosto knows and doesn't disagree. |
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| − | It's the night of [[Beltane]], thus more Dogs are on duty than regularly. Beka and her Dogs save two nobles from being robbed by four members of the [[Court of the Rogue]]. Beka has to chase one of them and they end up fighting. Eventually Goodwin and Tunstall arrive, arresting him properly. Afterwards they visit Mistress Noll, where they get something to eat and Tunstall has a small argument with [[Gunnar Espeksra]]. They continue their walk. |
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| − | When they finally return to the kennel after a long night, nothing is as it should. They learn that [[Verene]] and one of her Senior Dogs, [[Rollo]], were killed that night. |
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==Narrative technique== |
==Narrative technique== |
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| + | [[File:Tpt2_Danish.jpg|thumb|136px|Danish cover for the second part of ''Terrier'']] |
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| − | ===Diary form=== |
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| ⚫ | |||
| − | + | ''Terrier'' is an epistolary novel and chronicles events through Beka's diary and journals, which leads to a first-person narrator. It also allows for some special formatting like ink splatters or cat paws on pages. There aren't any real chapters. Instead the book is divided in diary entries for the day in question. The language, too, is more colloquial because of the diary form as Beka herself grew up in the Lower City of Corus and now works and lives in it, she also uses some of the terminology. This doesn't only include the usage of certain words, but also short, simple phrases as well as punctuation. |
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===Terminology=== |
===Terminology=== |
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| + | ''Terrier'' and the other books of the ''Rebekah Cooper'' trilogy follow a special terminology due to the setting in a lower social environment than Pierce's other books. |
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| − | See also: ''Provost's Dog Trilogy'' [[Provost's Dog#Terminology|terminology]] |
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| + | Some of the slang words are: |
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*'''birdies''' - informants |
*'''birdies''' - informants |
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*'''cages''' - jail |
*'''cages''' - jail |
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*'''cove''' - man |
*'''cove''' - man |
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| + | *'''doxie''' - female prostitute |
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| + | *'''filcher''' - small-time criminal |
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| + | *'''foist''' - master pickpocket |
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| + | *'''gillyflower''' - carnation |
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*'''gixie''' - girl |
*'''gixie''' - girl |
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| + | *'''hedgewitch''' - worker of small magics with little formal eduation |
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*'''hobble''' - tie up or arrest |
*'''hobble''' - tie up or arrest |
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| + | *'''hotblood wine''' - wine spiked with amphetamine-like substance |
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*'''kennel''' - law enforcement station |
*'''kennel''' - law enforcement station |
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| + | *'''minnow''' - very small-time criminal |
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*'''mot''' - woman |
*'''mot''' - woman |
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| + | *'''mumper''' - beggar |
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| + | *'''nob, noll''' - head |
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*'''puppy''' - guardsman or -woman in training |
*'''puppy''' - guardsman or -woman in training |
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| + | *'''puttock''' - low-level female prostitute |
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*'''rat''' - criminal |
*'''rat''' - criminal |
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| + | *'''river dodgers''' - hard men and women working on and around the river (boats, shipping, trade and smuggling) |
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| + | *'''rushers''' - thugs |
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| + | *'''spintry''' - male prostitute |
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| + | *'''twilsey''' - refreshing drink made of raspberry or cider vinegar and water |
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==Publication details== |
==Publication details== |
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| + | [[File:Terrier_rev.jpg|thumb|136px|Revised cover to fit the ''Bloodhound'' artwork]] |
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===Series=== |
===Series=== |
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| − | '''''Terrier''''' is book one in the |
+ | '''''Terrier''''' is book one in the ''Rebekah Cooper'' trilogy and was published in hardcover on October 23, 2006<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375814686 ''Terrier'' Hardcover] on Random House</ref>. The publication of the trade paperback edition followed a year later, on October 23, 2007<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375838163 ''Terrier'' Trade Paperback] on Random House</ref>. Book two, ''Bloodhound'', had a tentative release date of Spring 2008 but was actually released on April 14, 2009. Book three, [[Mastiff]], had an original release date for 2010 but has been pushed back to Fall of 2011. |
| − | . The publication of the trade paperback edition followed a year later, on October 23, 2007<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375838163 ''Terrier'' Trade Paperback] on Random House</ref>. Book two, [[Bloodhound]], had a tentative release date of Spring 2008 but was actually released on April 14, 2009. Book three, [[Mastiff]], has a release date of 2010. |
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===Other editions=== |
===Other editions=== |
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Except from being published as hardcover and paperback books by Random House, the book has also been made into and audiobook by Listening Library. The reader is Susan Denaker and the audiobook is about 15 hours long. It was published simultaneously to the hardcover edition and is available on CDs as well as for download. |
Except from being published as hardcover and paperback books by Random House, the book has also been made into and audiobook by Listening Library. The reader is Susan Denaker and the audiobook is about 15 hours long. It was published simultaneously to the hardcover edition and is available on CDs as well as for download. |
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| + | |||
| + | There also exists a Danish translation by Bjarne Skovlund, published with Tellerup, in which the novel has been split in two parts called ''"Duernes hvisken"'' (Whisper of the Doves) and ''"Duernes råb" ''(Cry of the Doves). The Danish cover art was designed by Stefan Rosenbech. |
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==Characters== |
==Characters== |
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| + | For a full list of characters see [[:Category:Characters in Terrier|Characters in ''Terrier'']]. |
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===Major characters=== |
===Major characters=== |
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| + | *'''[[Rebakah Cooper|Rebakah "Beka" Cooper]]''': Beka is a trainee guard, partnered with Goodwin and Tunstall. Due to her inherited ability to understand the ghosts riding on [[pigeons]] and the voices caught in the breezes called [[dust spinner]]s, she refers to those unusual informants. |
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| − | *[[Rebakah Cooper]] |
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| + | *'''[[Matthias Tunstall]]''': He is Goodwin's dog partner and one of Beka's training partners. Tusntall is more easy-going than Goodwin and Beka compares him several times to an owl. |
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| − | *[[Matthias Tunstall]] |
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| + | *'''[[Clara Goodwin]]''': She is Tunstall's dog partner and one of Beka's training partners. At first Goodwin is against having a Puppy, because she thinks a trainee would slow them down. |
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| − | *[[Clara Goodwin]] |
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| + | *'''[[The Cat|Pounce]]''': Pounce is Beka's advisor, a constellation come to life in the body of a black cat with purple eyes. He is also known as [[Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau|Alanna's]] traveling companion Faithful in ''[[The Song of the Lioness]]''-quartet. |
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| − | *[[The Cat|Pounce]] |
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===Other characters=== |
===Other characters=== |
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| + | *'''[[Kebibi Ahuda]]''': [[Watch Sergeant]] on [[Provost's Guard|Evening Watch]] in [[Jane Street kennel]]; conducts combat training for Puppies. |
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| + | *'''[[Gershom of Haryse]]''': [[Lord Provost]], took Beka and her family in after she had helped him to capture the [[Bold Brass gang]]. |
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| − | *[[Rosto the Piper]] |
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| − | *[[Aniki Forfrysning]] |
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| + | *'''[[Tansy Lofts]]''': Tansy is Beka's friend from childhood. She married Crookshank's son [[Herun Lofts]] and had a son with him, [[Rolond Lofts]]. Rolond was taken by the Shadow Snake when Tansy was pregnant with her second child. |
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| − | *[[Koramin Ingensra]] |
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| + | *'''[[Rosto the Piper]]''': Rosto came along with Aniki and Kora new to Corus from [[Scanra]]. All three move in at Beka's lodging house. He is a thug and employed to one of the [[Rogue]]'s chiefs. |
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| − | *The [[Shadow Snake]] |
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| + | *'''[[Aniki Forfrysning]]''': She came with Rosto and Kora to Corus and now makes her living as guard to one of the Rogue's chiefs. |
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| − | *[[Deirdry Noll]] |
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| + | *'''[[Koramin Ingensra]]''': Kora came with Rosto and Aniki to Corus. She is a mage. |
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| + | *'''[[Shadow Snake]]''': The Shadow Snake is a creature of ledgends, now appearantly come to live and steal children of the Lower City. |
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| + | *'''[[Deirdry Noll]]''': Mistress Noll is a baker. She has stalls both in the [[Nightmarket]] and in the [[Daymarket]]. Her son [[Yates Noll|Yates]] and her daughter Gemma help her there. |
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| + | ==Reception== |
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| + | *[http://wayrba.org.au/2009/10/31/2009-winners/ 2009 West Australian Young Readers' Book Award] - "Best Book for Older Readers" |
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| + | *Six weeks on The New York Times Children's Chapter Books bestseller list - #2 on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/bestseller/1112bestchildren.html 11/12/06], #4 on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/books/bestseller/1119bestchildren.html 11/19/06], #4 on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/books/bestseller/1126bestchildren.html 11/26/06], #10 on 12/03/06<ref name="etc">[http://www.tamora-pierce.com/etc.html Tamora Pierce's Website]</ref>, #5 on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/books/bestseller/1210bestchildren.html 12/10/06], #9 on [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/bestseller/1217bestchildren.html 12/17/06] |
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| + | *Publishers Weekly Children’s Fiction bestseller list, December, 2006<ref name="etc" /> |
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| + | *A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association, 2007<ref name="etc" /> |
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==Notes and references== |
==Notes and references== |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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+ | *[http://www.tamora-pierce.com/excerpts/terrier.html Excerpt of ''Terrier''] |
| + | *[http://www.tamora-pierce.com/about_beka.html Excerpt from the audiobook (might need to scroll down a bit)] |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si4FL-xd-Kw&feature=related Excerpt of ''Terrier'' read by Tamora Pierce] |
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si4FL-xd-Kw&feature=related Excerpt of ''Terrier'' read by Tamora Pierce] |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrsaRLUIGw&feature=channel_page Continuation to the link above] |
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrsaRLUIGw&feature=channel_page Continuation to the link above] |
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==See also== |
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Revision as of 16:45, 19 August 2018
Terrier is book one in the Rebekah Cooper trilogy by Tamora Pierce. It centers around protagonist Rebakah Cooper, ancestor of Eleni Cooper and George Cooper. Her story takes place about 200 years before Alanna: The First Adventure. The book is about Beka's first weeks as a puppy, or trainee, in the Provost's Guard.
Synopsis
Danish cover for the first part of Terrier
Beka Cooper is placed with Senior Dogs Matthias Tunstall and Clara Goodwin, two dogs famous for their work in the Lower City. Soon, they begin investigating the murder of three-year-old Rolond Lofts, son of Beka's friend Tansy Lofts and great-grandson of Ammon "Crookshank" Lofts, a rich criminal. This leads them to the realization that many children have been kidnapped and held for ransom in the last three years. If the child's parents pay the ransom, usually a valuable item in the parents' possession (such as a lily necklace, a ruby pendant, fire opals, curses, etc...), their child is returned to them. If not, the child is killed, and they have a new week to pay.
Supposedly, the villain behind these kidnappings is the Shadow Snake, a being from a legend used to scare young children into behaving. Beka, however, does not believe this and sets out to learn what's really happening.
Meanwhile, things are unstable in the court of the Rogue, a league of criminals. Kayfer Deerborn, the current king of the Rogue, is old and frail, and young hopefuls flock into town. Notably, one such hopeful, Rosto the Piper, and his two female friends, become friends with Beka.
Soon, Beka realizes that the Shadow Snake, or whomever is posing as the snake, is not the only crook working on a large scale lately. She suspects Crookshank of hiring workers to dig up rare fire opals from him - and killing the workers afterwards. However, there is little proof for either mystery and Beka, as a puppy, cannot go after them as she would like. Still, she continues to hunt for clues.
Narrative technique
Danish cover for the second part of Terrier
Format
Terrier is an epistolary novel and chronicles events through Beka's diary and journals, which leads to a first-person narrator. It also allows for some special formatting like ink splatters or cat paws on pages. There aren't any real chapters. Instead the book is divided in diary entries for the day in question. The language, too, is more colloquial because of the diary form as Beka herself grew up in the Lower City of Corus and now works and lives in it, she also uses some of the terminology. This doesn't only include the usage of certain words, but also short, simple phrases as well as punctuation.
Terminology
Terrier and the other books of the Rebekah Cooper trilogy follow a special terminology due to the setting in a lower social environment than Pierce's other books.
Some of the slang words are:
- birdies - informants
- cages - jail
- cove - man
- dog - guardsman or -woman who has gone through puppy training and achieved dog status
- doxie - female prostitute
- filcher - small-time criminal
- foist - master pickpocket
- gillyflower - carnation
- gixie - girl
- hedgewitch - worker of small magics with little formal eduation
- hobble - tie up or arrest
- hotblood wine - wine spiked with amphetamine-like substance
- kennel - law enforcement station
- minnow - very small-time criminal
- mot - woman
- mumper - beggar
- nob, noll - head
- puppy - guardsman or -woman in training
- puttock - low-level female prostitute
- rat - criminal
- river dodgers - hard men and women working on and around the river (boats, shipping, trade and smuggling)
- rushers - thugs
- spintry - male prostitute
- twilsey - refreshing drink made of raspberry or cider vinegar and water
Publication details
Revised cover to fit the Bloodhound artwork
Series
Terrier is book one in the Rebekah Cooper trilogy and was published in hardcover on October 23, 2006[1]. The publication of the trade paperback edition followed a year later, on October 23, 2007[2]. Book two, Bloodhound, had a tentative release date of Spring 2008 but was actually released on April 14, 2009. Book three, Mastiff, had an original release date for 2010 but has been pushed back to Fall of 2011.
Other editions
Except from being published as hardcover and paperback books by Random House, the book has also been made into and audiobook by Listening Library. The reader is Susan Denaker and the audiobook is about 15 hours long. It was published simultaneously to the hardcover edition and is available on CDs as well as for download.
There also exists a Danish translation by Bjarne Skovlund, published with Tellerup, in which the novel has been split in two parts called "Duernes hvisken" (Whisper of the Doves) and "Duernes råb" (Cry of the Doves). The Danish cover art was designed by Stefan Rosenbech.
Characters
For a full list of characters see Characters in Terrier.
Major characters
- Rebakah "Beka" Cooper: Beka is a trainee guard, partnered with Goodwin and Tunstall. Due to her inherited ability to understand the ghosts riding on pigeons and the voices caught in the breezes called dust spinners, she refers to those unusual informants.
- Matthias Tunstall: He is Goodwin's dog partner and one of Beka's training partners. Tusntall is more easy-going than Goodwin and Beka compares him several times to an owl.
- Clara Goodwin: She is Tunstall's dog partner and one of Beka's training partners. At first Goodwin is against having a Puppy, because she thinks a trainee would slow them down.
- Pounce: Pounce is Beka's advisor, a constellation come to life in the body of a black cat with purple eyes. He is also known as Alanna's traveling companion Faithful in The Song of the Lioness-quartet.
Other characters
- Kebibi Ahuda: Watch Sergeant on Evening Watch in Jane Street kennel; conducts combat training for Puppies.
- Gershom of Haryse: Lord Provost, took Beka and her family in after she had helped him to capture the Bold Brass gang.
- Ammon "Crookshank" Lofts: Landlord in the Lower City as well as a criminal.
- Tansy Lofts: Tansy is Beka's friend from childhood. She married Crookshank's son Herun Lofts and had a son with him, Rolond Lofts. Rolond was taken by the Shadow Snake when Tansy was pregnant with her second child.
- Rosto the Piper: Rosto came along with Aniki and Kora new to Corus from Scanra. All three move in at Beka's lodging house. He is a thug and employed to one of the Rogue's chiefs.
- Aniki Forfrysning: She came with Rosto and Kora to Corus and now makes her living as guard to one of the Rogue's chiefs.
- Koramin Ingensra: Kora came with Rosto and Aniki to Corus. She is a mage.
- Shadow Snake: The Shadow Snake is a creature of ledgends, now appearantly come to live and steal children of the Lower City.
- Deirdry Noll: Mistress Noll is a baker. She has stalls both in the Nightmarket and in the Daymarket. Her son Yates and her daughter Gemma help her there.
Reception
- 2009 West Australian Young Readers' Book Award - "Best Book for Older Readers"
- Six weeks on The New York Times Children's Chapter Books bestseller list - #2 on 11/12/06, #4 on 11/19/06, #4 on 11/26/06, #10 on 12/03/06[3], #5 on 12/10/06, #9 on 12/17/06
- Publishers Weekly Children’s Fiction bestseller list, December, 2006[3]
- A YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association, 2007[3]
Notes and references
- ↑ Terrier Hardcover on Random House
- ↑ Terrier Trade Paperback on Random House
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Tamora Pierce's Website
External links
- Excerpt of Terrier
- Excerpt from the audiobook (might need to scroll down a bit)
- Excerpt of Terrier read by Tamora Pierce
- Continuation to the link above
See also
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