Terrier

Terrier by Tamora Pierce
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Nominally this is a young adult book and I gave it a shot as an audiobook, based on praise for the author various places. I'd probably have enjoyed this more in print. I'm not always sure what "young adult" means with genre fiction of the mind-candy variety. Sure, the protagonist was a 16 year old and there wasn't explicit sex. But there was certainly some gruesome violence in this story of a young guardswoman serving her apprenticeship in the slums, and dealing with poverty, domestic abuse, broken homes, child killers and some miners in bad need of union representation.

Liked it but didn't love it; certainly I get why people recommended Pierce.