Mysterious and often thought to be only the stuff of legends, the Marlfoxes make their way into Mossflower and Redwall country. After a battle at the wall, the Marlfoxes make their way into the Abbey and steal the tapestry of Martin the Warrior. Three young friends, Dann and Song the squirrels and Dippler the shrew, must leave the safety of their home to fulfill Martin's prophesy and rescue the beloved symbol of Redwall. As always, the three adventurers have a perilous journey full of adventure, the making of new friends, and ultimately a heroic final battle on the infamous Marlfox island and fortress. Meanwhile back at the Abbey, Cregga badgermum--the former Cregga Rose Eyes, the badger warrior of Salamandastron--and the other Redwallers must defend the Abbey against other members of the Marlfox clan that continually try to conquer the famous Redwall. As always, Jacques does not disappoint, and manages to weave yet another tale of friends who set out on a journey to prove themselves and that good will conquer evil.

One of the most memorable and a personal favorite

Solid read. Solid installment. I loved the focus on a more limited number of storylines so that the individual plots and characters got good amounts of attention. The back of the book talks about Marlfoxes stealing the tapestry, and then how Dann, Song, Dippler, and Burble go off to retrieve. Without much aberration, this is what "Marlfox" is about. I feel it really helped keep things moving as a narrative, and I didn't find myself losing track of characters like I have done in certain previous Redwall installments. However, you still have fun little sidetracks with bit characters like Sollertree and Megraw to help add content and depth to the main storylines. It feels like in "Marlfox", everything has its place and everyone plays his or her part for the greater good, making the novel a solid and enjoyable addition to the series.

I've owned this book forever but I don't remember as much what this one was about. Kudos to Jacques though for going for more than just regular foxes and adding an air of almost-magic into it.
My favorite part of these books is often the food. Anyone else get hungry reading these?

One of the better books of Redwall I’ve read. Loved the different adventures and the castle in a mysterious lake.

As always, this book contains such extraordinary and lovely nature writing of landscapes and adventures, as the creatures of Redwall strive to defend themselves from the devious Marlfox!
(I wish wars and battles weren't so prevalent in the pastoral and woodland realms of Redwall so the creatures could actually enjoy their bounteous idylls)

I will always love the Redwall novels

This is VERY SIMILAR to Watership Down, which i loved. However this had a tad too much detail in my personal opinion... otherwise, fantastic!

Oh goody, another Redwall book where we get to spend 300 pages trying to distinguish what the various creatures are saying. Can't any of the animals in this universe speak normally? One or two characters with quirky speech is cute, but all of them? Doesn't someone try to preserve the language in Redwall? And while we're on the subject of continuity in this universe, why are always children at the Abbey but never any parents?

Like most of the other books in this series, Marlfox follows the same old formula, making the entire plot highly predictable. There's a war at the Abbey. There's a riddle to be solved. There's a war elsewhere, because if there aren't at least two wars, then what would be the point? And as usual, there's lots of feasting for the good guys and back-stabbing for the bad guys. There's even a mousebabe because, apparently, they too have become a staple.

Marlfox is particularly boring because it didn't feel like any of the characters on the quest for the tapestry learned or changed or grew in any way. Instead, all the characters they met along the way seemed to do all the work. Also, the final confrontation was woefully short, which makes all the build-up to it seem pointless.

Not the worst of the series, but far from the best. Easily skip-able; you aren't missing much.

One of best that I've read so far

Another fun adventure featuring anthropomorphic woodland creatures. This has a nice two-pronged story with one having Redwall Abbey being under siege (again) this time by miscreant Marlfoxes and the other features (another) quest this time of four friends as they make their way to the Marlfoxes' home base to retrieve something they nicked. An enjoyable chapter in the Redwall series that retreads old ground well.

Usually, it takes me a few chapters to get into a Redwall book. With this one, I hit the ground running from the first page. This was a fascinating story (as they usually are) and I especially loved Dann and Song. I was a bit sad at the end that they weren't together, which I probably shipped them because they reminded me a lot of Angus and Fiona from Dìlseachd - A Stolen Crown and as such felt like they should be together. But it was a very good story and I thoroughly enjoyed it.