Redwall
By Brian Jacques
Hi! Do you have any pets in your house that try to protect you whenever a stranger walks by? Well, although Matthias isn’t a pet, he’s a mouse who really wants to protect Redwall, the animal healing center. But Father Abbot wants him to remain peaceful. He believes that no one should harm any living thing.
Redwall is a peaceful place where all animals go to be healed. However, Cluny the Scourge sees their territory as the perfect place for Cluny’s castle. Cluny is a rat who is feared by animals far and wide. Most think that he is just a myth, a legend to get little kids to eat their broccoli. But he is real! And what can a healing center like Redwall Abbey do against Cluny and his horde?
Though this was a great book, there is something I would have changed about it. It was a little hard to get into it at first. I felt like the language was a little too complicated. It was so twisted up sometimes that it became a little hard to understand what the author was saying. However, when it got to the action scenes, things got a little clearer.
My favorite part of the book Redwall is all of the action scenes when Cluny and Redwall fight. I also loved when Cluny was creating all of his devious schemes. But what I loved even more was when Redwall tried to come up with plans to try to stop Cluny and his horde. I can’t tell you whether they work or not, because I don’t want to give too much away.
As I was reading this book, the descriptive language and the action, even the animals, reminded me of a book called Watership Down. It’s also a book with animals, except it’s about rabbits that are going on an adventure to find a new home. If you’ve read that book and enjoyed it, I think that you would like this one too, and vice versa.
Will Cluny and his horde take Redwall? Or will the villainous rat be stopped by a brave and noble warrior? As I always say, read the book to find out!
A few helpful things I like to say about the books I read:
“Run and Get Mom” (how I describe the scariness factor – zero being not scary at all and five being majorly scary): 3
“Yucky-Lovey Stuff” (how I describe the romance factor – zero having no yucky-lovey parts in it and five having major yucky-lovey parts): 2
I give this book 4 wands.
This book was amazing! I would have given it 5 wands if it hadn’t been a little hard to get into at the beginning. However, once I got to the action scenes, I couldn’t put the book down! If you liked Watership Down, I think you’ll love this book, too!
