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Yet another fun story from this creative writer filled with quirky characters and friends who truly enjoy just living together. This story, just as any of the Redwall series is a great feel-good read and even good for reading to your children at bedtime.
Arrived in good time and in excellent condition. Nice addition to my collection. Thank you.
I grew to love his books when I was a young teenager, and I still buy and read them now, 15 or so years later. Another fun, wonderful book from Brian Jacques. It's a wonderful escape into a familiar world - definitely a comfort read for me.
I also think that the food far from annoying me makes my stomach grumble. I agree that Jacques continues his repetitiveness but he has to doesnt he. bottom line, Jacques has certainly not lost his touch and probably never will. Personally I strongly disagree with the last reviewer who said that said Jacques is getting worse as he goes on. I also just read Doomwyte and liked it a lot go JACQUES AND KEEP WRITING MORE. Who would read these books if they always had bad guys winning and the main characters dying.
Do not avoid buying this book just because of a couple scathing and nonsensical scribbles. I am a huge Jacques fan ad when I first read the series I read it in about six months. DONT LISTEN TO HIM. I even made some of his food judging by thier description.
If there is another Redwall novel, I dearly hope it is prudently done and isn't as exhausted as this one seems. It's that bad. I'm not saying this out of malevolence or even dislike--I truly love much of his work. You can read a synopsis and skip the book. "Mossflower", for example, is excellent. For the last four or five years, the Redwall novels have been episodic, and of increasingly poorer quality. The comments, however, that the book is formulaic are understatement.The entire outcome of this book is obvious from the first few chapters. a queen.
For the more avid Jacques readers, all of the specific terms and groups you've come to expect pop up, doing exactly what they always do: the Guosim shrews show up briefly, there's a badger lord we see for a bit, the Long Patrol are gluttonous and heroic, the Redwallers bumble good-naturedly, and the otters eat hotroot soup. The earlier stuff is the best.I think Jacques is under pressure to keep churning out Redwall books at a steady pace, when he should've ended them years ago--or at least taken a break. This is by far Brian Jacques' worst work. I almost didn't have the will to keep reading--the villains will die, the hero with a tragic past will sacrifice himself and be at peace, and the leader destined to be a queen becomes (surprise). Huzzah.I in no way mean to imply that Jacques hasn't written good books; he has.
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