small town challenge! pick one of the towns that makes up stoke-on-trent: burslem, tunstall, hanley, stoke-upon-trent (stoke), fenton, or longton. 🏴
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The biggest heartbreaking irony about Tunstall's betrayal in Mastiff is that...if he hadn't done it, if he'd just...stayed true to the end and rescued the Prince with Beka, Sabine, & Farmer...he would have gotten exactly what he wanted! The King would have given him a title! He would have gotten what he thought he needed to be "worthy" of Sabine! (Let alone the fact that she didn't want or need him to have a fancy title to be "worthy" of him. She loved HIM for HIM. Sigh...).
It's perfect tragic irony and I hate it but...but it's not bad writing and it didn't come out of nowhere (both criticisms I've seen from fans in the past), either, the signs are there in Terrier & Bloodhound. I think I've only read Mastiff twice or maybe three times, as opposed to the countless times I've read Terrier & Bloodhound, but I think I understand it all better now at 31, than I did as a teenager reading it for the first time (when it came out lol). Doesn't make it hurt any less, of course...sometimes it makes it hurt worse.
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Bookplate in LVA copy of: Quesnay de Beaurepaire, Chevalier (Alexandre Marie), 1755-1820. Mémoire, statuts et prospectus, concernant l'Académie des Sciences et Beaux-arts des États-Unis de l'Amérique, établie a Richemond, capitale de la Virginie. Paris : De l'imprimerie de Cailleau, imprimeur de l'Académie de Richemond, 1788
So, overall, I really liked and enjoyed Provost’s Dog.
BUT I have some major issues with Mastiff. Below is my rant about The Thing.
Please don’t read this if you haven’t finished Mastiff! Too many spoilers!
We need an AU where The Thing happened differently. It seemed forced the way it’s written! Now, three books in, we’re going to mention Tunstall has major insecurities and is willing to go against everything he ever stood for at a whim? For Sabine, who would murder him for doing that? And he honestly kept on that path when Achoo almost died and Pounce is in trouble? Long enough to MURDER A CHILD? He’s friends with the Provost before Terrier even really starts! He won’t take a flower from a public garden!
And when they’re escaping he says they’re on the loosing side? They have the strangest, strongest patchwork mage on their side! So many things just don’t fit. And I don’t think he just went crazy. Pierce did a good job setting up the clues, but character-wise and narrative-wise, it doesn’t fit quite right.
In my AU, he agrees to do The Thing in the heat of the moment but then spends the rest of the book regretting it and trying to make it stop and living this complicated life of double-double crossing. He does something heroic that shows he’s still him, and NEVER MURDERS A CHILD. He ends up surviving (though barely).
Sabine hates him and breaks up with him, but she is his biggest advocate for a punishment other than execution or prison. So, he ends up getting put on house arrest. Tunstall would complain a lot at first, saying he prefers being dead to being trapped. But then his house is the most wonderful, colorful array of plants. Over time, Farmer probably helps him create mini-climates in different rooms so he can grow the coolest, craziest indoor plants. He can have some cool desert plants! And hill plants! Beka’s pigeons love hanging out in Tunstall’s gardens.
Sabine probably goes on some long, crazy quest for a few years. She and Tunstall never stop loving each other, and when she can bring herself to talk to him again, she does so. Maybe they reunite, maybe not, maybe just for a night here and there. I don’t see her ever fully forgiving him, but I don’t think she could stop loving him either. Maybe Toby is a descendant of Tunstall and Sabine’s illegitimate child! But that would be sad about how Toby got to be so neglected and abused.
Between his Dog friends and his Rogue friends, Tunstall stays pretty well informed. Goodwin eventually, gradually gives him some non-confidential paperwork jobs to keep his mind occupied. He starts a log of the Gentle Mother’s crazy ungentle deeds, and a log of awesome women with varying degrees of gentleness (Myles somehow ends up with these logs 200 years later, of course). He helps Beka and Farmer out on their cases whenever they let something mention them in front of him. He breaks house arrest once or twice because he hears Beka or her latest scent hound in trouble nearby. He manages to sneak back in and everyone blames Rosto or Farmer for whatever amazingly helpful thing just happened. Beka doesn’t tell on him, but she yells at him at his house later.
Tunstall doesn’t fully get over his regret, but he is satisfied with his small life with his plants and his friends, in spite of his restlessness. He doesn’t die feeling broken inside, and he doesn’t have to fly on a pigeon’s back, because he’s told Beka and Goodwin and Sabine how important they are to him. If he does, it’s because he chooses to thank Beka for helping him meet her god with a clear conscience.