This book was an okay book compared to the other Redwall books. It felt a bit rushed, and it didn't stick with one character for long. The characters weren't very developed and the main character was barely a main character. The best character was probably a hare that was introduced at the middle of the book, and is a bit crazy. This book was not the best, but was still an okay book.

Same old, same old, but it kept me reading even so. I don't know if it's the nostalgia, the journeyman writing (even if the story beats are profoundly formulaic. When I told my husband I had just encountered a hare with PTSD, he asked if they would visit Salamandastron next to learn his tragic backstory. Right on the nose.), or just that the otter stories are my favorite, but I got through it with pleasure, and I'm on to EULALIA!

This series of books continues to be a bug a boo for me. They are predictable, they are boring, the character development is flat, and each book remains a testament to the ongoing financial grab for a writer committed to a series. What I mean to say is the author's persistence in writing a series that long should have been shuttered, proves that the author's financial needs outweigh the world's literary once, therefore you have a book that is right, and supremely boring. I really could read 3 to 5 pages without falling asleep cause knew what would be said what would happen, and what the final ending would be. This is the slowest of all the books thus far and certainly one of the worst written.

This book was highly enjoyable. It had a different plot from the other books (always nice) and the Long Patrol, so it was bound to be so.

I first read the Redwall books years ago and I still enjoy them when I recently re-read them. I love the world building and the creativity with which these animals were anthropomorphized. The level of description is really well done and very detailed. So adventurous and so very entertaining.

One of my favorite Redwall books.

This was a good, if unnecessary, “girl power” installment of Redwall. Tiria doesn’t do much fighting, but what she does is pretty impressive. She’s also one of the only main non-badger heroes to take out the main villain herself, albeit anticlimactically (but very poetically just).

I call the “girl power” of this book unnecessary because it really is. Jacques has had both female warriors and female protagonists in Redwall before, and has done them more memorably and better than this rendition. The whole book just felt off because of the “you’re a girl and can’t do anything well” vibe, which has never been brought up in Redwall before and has never been assumed of any of the females in previous Redwall books.

I totally think that Brantalis was the best part of this book. I just love the way he talks. Also, I loved Zillo the Bard and pretty much all of the parts with the rogue otters on Green Isle, although it struck me a bit strange that they had never gone to Holt Summerdale before this. Ah, plot conveniences.

I also enjoyed the lore aspect of this book regarding the High Rhulain and the story that Quelt and the others find in Redwall. Jacques always has lore in some form or another in these books, but this one really struck me since the plot was really built around it.

I didn’t much like Skipper berating Tiria over feeling bad about killing someone. Yes, she stopped that creature from causing any more harm to other creatures, but that doesn’t mean she should enjoy it or whatever Skipper was implying. Personally, I think Tiria’s shock just humanizes her (creaturizes her?) and makes her more likeable than the bland, generic Skipper.

Oh, and since I can’t read a book without pairing off all the characters…I totally ship Tiria/Leatho.

Another fun book from Brian Jacques. 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. It's a wonderful escape into a familiar world - definitely a comfort read for me.

Another rip roaring tale of adventure from Brian Jacques and the denizens of Mossflower Country, is the heart of this book. Tiria, a young otter maid, is destined to become the Queen High Rhulian of the Green Isle. This requires her to free the Green Isle from the horrible cats that had invaded and placed many of the otters into slavery. She leave her home at Redwall Abbey with Pandion the hawk and a rather odd acting veteran of the Long Patrol to go to Green Isle. A stop is made at the mountain home of the badgers and hares where she is given armor fit for a warrior queen and also the help of 30 veterans of the Long Patrol. Off they go for this adventure that provide moments of victory and also some sadness with the demise of fellow warriors and friend.

As usual, there is much eating of really delicious sounding food, and the Dibbuns(what is a Dibbuns-read a Redwall Book) with their mischief and fun. All the various dialects that the author adds to the book is astounding. You do not have to be a child to enjoy these books--just a child at heart and I hope that I never lose the ability to be that!

I had to read the first book twice because I swore I missed something important. I didn't. This book is way too much filler. Anything that happens at Redwall is largely superfluous to the plot. The villains are all completely incompetent and outside of being slave-owners don't pose any threat to anyone. The titular heroine has no impact on the main plot outside of being a morale booster.

This wasn't completely terribly, but it was unmemorable at best and not a Redwall book that does any facet of storytelling better than other books did before it.

I have read this series from the first book, Martin the Warrior, years ago. Like so many series, there are repeated storylines of young "good" animal (in this case an ottermaid) finding her destiny (this time as the high queen of Green Isle, to save enslaved otters there), and vanquishing an "evil" animal (usually a carnivore, in this case a wildcat. But This author's skill at telling the tale is so good that its worth reading, even when you know exactly what is going to happen (some puzzle is usually included, as the key to the epic destiny to be seized). My only upset with this series is that every single cat is always evil, and though there are warlords/high chiefs who are enslaving other animals with aplomb for years, invariably its the fault of their own evil offspring that makes their reign crumble from within more so than them getting physically or mentally outmanuvered by the "good" animals. But this is an excellent series for preteens, ones I'd recommend with no reservation.

High Queen Rhulain is my favorite out of all of the Redwall series. It has such a good plot.
In a foresty place, a young otter and her friends live in Redwall Abbey. The young otter helps two visitors and discovers somethings about herself and the Abbey. She and her father and friend go out to find someone to help her cross the sea. Which is where she needs to go to . She gets someone to take her, but what’s in store for her is quite a lot.
The characters in the book are great. Even though some die. And it is very sad to see what is happening to some of the creatures. It is good because of the language in my opinion. I love to see how the otters talk to each other and the moles, even though it’s hard to understand them a little. They make the story fun. I like how there are songs every few pages. It adds liveliness to what’s going on. The songs are a little weird and I try to sing them in my head, but that doesn’t really work out. I enjoy reading about what the animals are going to eat, it always sounds so good. If it was fit for humans to eat that is. It just adds detail to something simple as eating your dinner.
tThe cats in the book are really cool to me. Even though they are not all to good. I love cats. They are just the best. But in Redwall, they are portrayed as bad guys. Which kinds makes since. Cats are jerks. They really are. And in the books, the cats are jerks. So what I'm getting at is, the author ties the animals to the real world a little bit. Which I think is super cool.
I highly recommend any of the Redwall books to anyone. That are just that good.