** spoiler alert ** 
 I was so looking forward to Reading this book, but unfortunately I was disappointed by it. It's been a while since I read the first two books in the series and I decided to go ahead and just read the third on its own. I remember really enjoying Terrier but I don't remember too much about Bloodhound other than a general outline. So I'm not sure if it's the time since I've read them or this actually was a different writing style but it seemed like Mastiff was very much a tell, not show, kind of book. 
 The first two-thirds of the book were quite a slog for me to get through and it seemed like paragraph upon paragraph of the mundane activities of a Hunt. I really wanted the action to pick up or at least have some side vignettes going on or something. Something to make me actually care about the characters, instead of "she smelled this then went over and smelled this", or at least that's how it seemed to me. 
 The last third of the book nearly redeemed it. The action definitely kicked up a notch and I liked the suspense when there was suspicion of a threat from within. 
 I think I'm also remembering more of the characters from Terrier and I was a little disappointed that there wasn't as much of them, mostly Beka's neighbours and people from the Court of the Rogue. 
 I guess I'll hide my review for this one bit. I liked Farmer well enough but I didn't quite feel there was much between him and Beka, and I think I kind of wanted her to end up with Rosto.