I would say really good. The author Brian Jacques is a real good storyteller. The story is about a mouse name Mariel who is thrown out to the sea by an evil sea rat king named Gabool the wild.When Mariel is washed up on a beach, and has no memory of herself or her past. Therefore she calls herself storm and carries around a knotted rope witch she calls Gullwacker when she finds herself in Redwall her memory comes back to her, and she made an oath that she will have revenge on Gabool for killing her father.You will have to read this book for yourself if you want to find out what happens Wot Wot!

n  n    Draw close, now, little woodlander.
Take this to sleep with you:
My tale of dusty, far-off times,
When warrior hearts were true.n  n

brb sobbing over the way this audiobook impacted Baby Olivia's story sense and the sheer amount of love I have for it now and always

This book had the ship carrying Joseph the Bellmaker get into trouble with a rouge pirate band. They tossed him overboard. His daughter, Mariel, gets washed ashore and vows revenge for her father and what happened. I enjoyed this series so much, and it got me through a long fall break of being grounded.

This was a reread in my great Redwall reread that I started a few years back. This was never one of my favorites growing up, but I like Mariel. She's spunky and one of the few female leads that we get to follow. I had a good time with the journey and as usual absolutely love the hares. I feel like the storyline with Gaboul and the bell was super odd, but what can you do?

5 stars. Have I been binging Redwall? Why, yes. Have I wandered all over the chronological and published order? Well, rather. Am I still infatuated? Entirely.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the most similar books in the series are 1, 2, & 3—which still aren’t super similar to be honest. The rest are very different. This book, however, still had the traditional Redwall under attack angle, which I enjoyed. Our other setting was Terramort, the isle where Gabool the terrible has made his headquarters with his searats.

Mariel was honestly not my favourite character, either here or in other books. She doesn’t do much but whack stuff. She’s not super funny or sweet, like most other characters, and instead is a very serious, very dutiful, and very warring mousemaid. I felt she didn’t have much personality. However, she had an interesting storyline, so I didn’t care too much about how little I was interested in her. The rabbits—I beg their pardons, the hares—were a hoot and a half, as usual, but still varied! Tarquin was all fool (quite fun of course); and Rosie was an interesting mixture of warrior and dizzy haremaid; but Col. Clary and Brig. Thyme were absolute heroes and I am still not over their story!!! Rawnblade I remember nothing about; clearly he had no striking character marks to make him stand out here or among the other badgers. Dandin was also not a very original character but I liked him, and Durry was super cute (idk, he’s a hedgehog, ok?). I loved all the Dibbuns and other Redwall characters, even if I did get them a bit mixed up. Mother Mellus was delightful and Pakatugg was the crazy redneck paranoid guy that struck me as really comedic somehow. Simeon was a dear old soul, and Oak Tom is strangely fascinating?? Finally, the main searats had enough personality to stand apart and were the usual hilariously blundering but still scary villains, and Gabool was wild and quite terrifying—I know I say it every time about every villain, but it’s true.

I really loved the sea-bound atmosphere of the book! It was quite an enjoyable romp on the high seas, in my opinion. Mariel, Dandin, Durry, and Co.’s journey was reminiscent of other books as well, but still different enough. The underground revolution was an unexpected but really fun stroke; and also that Redwall siege was more anxiety-inducing to me than usual somehow… and amazing…

Overall, it’s been a bit too long since I read the book and I’m a jumbled mess of all the other Redwall stories right now, so forgive my helter-skelter and perhaps slightly inaccurate review, and just know that this was a great book and a lovely addition to the series and I highly enjoyed it.

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This was given to me for my birthday when I was... 8? and it took me a while to get around to picking it up. But once I did I was genuinely sucked into the world of Redwall and spent a good part of the next four years reading Jacques's series (in a very higgledy-piggledy fashion because I was too impatient to wait for other library users and read them in order).

This installment features a cool butt-kicking heroine (packaged in the form of a tiny mouse) and an old-fashioned pseudo-medieval epic adventure plot. A satisfying and entertaining read for children.

3 stars, mainly because these are rereads, and the other two I've reread, I remembered quite a lot of. This one, I apprently only remembered one of the plotlines, and it wasn't Mariel's. (Mainly I remembered Redwall Abbey under siege and the hares.) The rest of it came back to me as I went, and I enjoyed it, but not a favourite in the series.

This book I will always keep dear to my heart. The day my mom bought this for me was the same day that a certain infamous Brian Jacques was having a book signing not too far away from my middle school. That's right, my copy is signed my the big man himself. I was in sixth grade at the time and I believe that while I was waiting in line, I took a spare piece of paper and created a mouse in a boat (awful quality, but 3D nonetheless). When I got up to the front of the line, he took one look at me and said that my name must be Erin Magonagle. I don't know for the life of me who Erin Magonagle really is, but I took it as a compliment and he signed the book I gave him my mouse-boat. I double he kept it but he looked so pleased to have gotten it at all that it made my day (or my year).
To focus on the book itself, Mariel was always a character that I loved. She was the unconventional Redwaller, the one that didn't quite fit in. I may or may not have carried around a bit of rope (my own Gullwhacker) for a few weeks after reading the book - I admit nothing.
This is an especially good book for kids who don't feel as though they fit in with the rest of the crowd. I was the odd one out for a long time, and this book was a great companion for that time.

I loved the Redwall books as a kid, and I’ve started reading them to my own kids now. This one was good! A little darker than what I remember, but it’s an excellent story filled with nefarious searats, a scheming Pirate-King, and an ancient prophesy. I’m looking forward to reading more Redwall books!

I know they're really childrens' books... but when the news is full of awful stories and that helpless feeling starts creeping in around the edges, I have never yet found a heartier comfort read than the Redwall series. I've recently unearthed some of my old collection and have been rationing it out cautiously: a page or two each night, remembering how carefully I used to make these last when space was limited and books were precious... and heavy.

Mariel of Redwall was actually the first Redwall book I ever read: a kind librarian at the public library allowed me to dip into the Adult section (I guess the size of these was too intimidating for the Childrens' section?), and this was an enormous hardback with an exciting cover, and the pages were dusty and stained and dog-eared and well-loved. It follows the same basic formula as all the Redwall books, really -- feisty mousemaid escapes evil pirates, journeys to Redwall, regains her memories, makes new friends, journeys back to the coast, finds her father, defeats the pirates -- but it's hopeful and soothing and lighthearted, and I loved it instantly. I can't even guess how many times I read and reread this and Outcast of Redwall, but probably easily the double-digits for each.

I was a little worried, cracking it open again after such a long time... But no -- it was like reuniting with old friends again; just a few pages and there I was again, tiny and anxious for school to end and knowing that a summer bright and brimming with adventure was just around the corner. A perfect time capsule in paper form: There is still magic in this world.

Three and a half stars would most definitely be a strong possibility for this work.
If ever a writer were to be called truly magnificent, I think that Brian Jacques would have to be the one. As he has done again and again over the years without missing a beat, he has once more crafted an astonishing masterpiece in Mariel of Redwall.
Suffused with endlessly exciting adventure, glowing romanticism and breathtakingly gilded language of a rare beauty that shines in only the most wondrous of novels, we are taken on a nearly four hundred page journey into another world, a journey that is impossible to forget. The narrative bubbles over with power and charisma and unexpected shots of ringing humor, all of which only serve to underscore a story that carries enough plot lines for half a dozen exceptional novels, at least.
Mariel of Redwall will pull you into its grasp and make you care about these characters, and care about them a lot, at that. It fits alongside the other Redwall stories perfectly, giving emotionally important nods to the past while including fresh characters and significant acknowledgements of future events in the Redwall chronology, as well. Simply put, Mariel of Redwall is a literary gem, and I am so glad to have read it.

Somewhat perfunctory girl-hero Jacques epic. I think this one was about the Joseph Bell mythos hinted at in the prior books. Also pirates. Started the trend of all subsequent Redwall books by taking place chronologically in between Mossflower and Redwall (or was there one about Martin's pre-Mossflower past? I can't recall anymore, but he had to wander out of somewhere.)