Dear-12-year old me,
You will read your tattered edition of Triss when you are 23 and it will still give you the same pleasure. 23-year-old you will be able to escape into the same fictional sanctuary that you do,but because she is hiding from more adulty problems.

P.S. Your boobs don't get much bigger-sorry.

QWERTYly awesome. Lots of murder and beheadings and the like. I love stuff like that. I wonder if he’s going to write more books.

Probably one of my favorite RedWall books…Triss is so courages, daring, and brave! Have the hardback copy on my bookshelf.

One of my favorites out of the series.

I really enjoyed this Redwall book. It had a somewhat more developed plot than the usual and was stuffed with enjoyment.

Once enslaved by Royal white Ferrets, Triss, Shogg and Welfo vow to one day return to Riftgard to free their fellow slaves. But first, they must flee the Pure Ferret Princess Kurda, who is pursuing them aboard a Freebooter's ship. The three friends go through many dangers, meet new friends, and of course, eventually make their way to Redwall. This is a tale of freedom, loyalty, and mystery with a little bit of romance thrown in. Just what Redwall fans would expect and have grown to love from Brian Jacques' saga.

Similar to the others in the series, just sweet stories where good triumphs.

4.75

I have now officially read as far in the series as an adult as I did as a kid, so this is the last book that gets the full nostalgia treatment (even though I don't remember jack squat from most books). This novel has a few too many characters, so that the inevitable deaths of [redacted] and [redacted] feel a bit safer than the usual sacrificial lambs. But I do like the blending of locations, narratives, and lore; kind of a greatest hits of some of the first fifteen.

Not my favorite of the Redwall books, but better than I remembered it. Sagax is excellent — he has a great name, a great character arc, and a great personality. Scarum is just as annoying as I thought I recalled him being. As for the rest, they're as lovable as most Redwall characters.

I would also like to note that I think this is the first Redwall book, chronologically or in publication order, to have a female be the one destined to weild Martin's sword. So that's kind of cool. We've seen an abundance of female fighters as both main and minor characters, but this seems like a Significant Thing.

In this yarn of Redwall, the titular squirrelmaid Triss works as a slave for the Pure Ferrets, among them Princess Kurda, considered skilled with the blade. Meanwhile, two younglings disappear from Redwall Abbey, while a ship called the Stopdog, its main crew consistent of Sagax the badger, Scarum the hare, and Kroova the sea otter, sails, with occasional encounters with the vermin typically antagonistic in the Redwall universe. Triss also plots escape with her fellow slaves, and the Skipper of otters at Redwall takes on a big leadership role, being a descendant of the warrior Taggerung, also helping find the Dibbuns, the children of Redwall, a few times with help from the current Log a Log, Groo.

A jet stone inscribed with ancient lettering fascinates the Redwallers, culminating in a treasure hunt throughout the book. Plugg Firetail the fox serves as a secondary antagonist, his ship being the Seascab and his followers the Freebooters, and eventually battles the Pure Ferret prince and princess. Scarum also acts as a nuisance throughout the tale, with a running gag about his unending hunger. A hamster named Mokug plays a minor role, initially termed a “golden mouse”, although he doesn’t receive much mention later. Another riddle in the identity of “poisoned gold” emerges at Redwall and eventually receives resolution. The Redwallers and vermin additionally have a common enemy in a serpent family.

Other battles erupt in the latter portion of the book, with an ending largely composed of narrations from various characters featured within the text, which gives decent closure to the story. Overall, this is another enjoyable tale of Redwall, even if it’s somewhat formulaic, given the retained themes of escaping slavery, and the depiction of specific animals as inherently good or evil, creatures such as otters, mice, badgers, hares, and squirrels depicted as the former, and others such as ferrets, rats, stoats, weasels, and foxes as the latter. Fans will be sure to eat this story up, and those who haven’t read any in the series can rest assured they needn’t have read other books to enjoy this one.

This was a fun extension to the red wall series. Triss is a young squirrel slave who escapes from a white ferret's kingdom. Her goal is to find a way to free all the other slaves. Another plot is Sagax, the badger, with his otter and hare friend go in search of adventure nd getting away from parents and rules. The last plot is the animals of Redwall rediscover Brockhall but it has been taken over by a mysterious monster. I couldn't help buy think that there was a little too much going on, especially for a children's book. It all come together in the end but it was rather rushed and anticlimactic. It was almost like the ending of there stories wasn't as important as everyone meeting up together. I kind of felt that the story was over before it needed to be over. Still, a good book for any Redwall fan.