This is probably the third time I've reread Terrier (I've never reread any of the other books in the series) and I still think it holds up.

The main negative for this is always going to be the diary aspect. I don't know why Pierce suddenly decided to write an entire book in diary format after years of third person, but it's so fake. It definitely requires a suspension of disbelief. No one writes thousands and thousands of words describing their day in perfect detail down to full conversations of dialogue.

But at the same time, I wouldn't want to read a whole book that actually sounds like someone's diary. Apart from the introductions in each entry and a few days where she's too tired to write, it doesn't sound at all natural. It's a little annoying and I mostly prefer to pretend it's just regular first person narration. But I can see how this might be a deal breaker for some people.

I really like the day in the life aspect of this book. There are of course two major cases that Beka is investigating, but a lot of this book is just covering everything she did each day. I really enjoy books like that because they give interesting insights into what the normal world looks like, not just when there's a lot of heightened drama.

I also thought it was fun on reread to see all the foreshadowing. I didn't figure out the twist much before Beka did when I read the book initially, so it was cool to catch all the little tidbits from the beginning.

Overall, I still think this is a pretty great book. I wouldn't recommend it as an introduction to the Tortall universe, but I think once you've read a couple of others, it's worth a read. It's fun to read a police procedural set in a fantasy world. I'm very interested to see how my reread of the rest of the trilogy goes because I distinctly remember not like Bloodhound or Mastiff much at all.