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Following a dream, the young ottermaid Tiria travels from Redwall to the Green Isle, where otters have long been enslaved by feral cats but fight back as they await the High Rhulain, a savior whose coming was foretold.Tags
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Young Otter Tiria sees Martin the Warrior in a dream and the Redwall abbey residents help her and her friends figure out the answers to the strange riddle she receives. The poem leads her to the Green Isle, where she must help free enslaved otters from the claws of ruling cats.
I'm now reading Redwall books that came out after I had stopped reading the books as a kid. This one didn't work super well for me. It was slow and lacked some of the charm that Redwall usually has. 3 stars.
I'm now reading Redwall books that came out after I had stopped reading the books as a kid. This one didn't work super well for me. It was slow and lacked some of the charm that Redwall usually has. 3 stars.
“Jacques is milking it.”
As I picked up this novel, I expected the typical Redwall plot: Far-off land is in trouble, A warrior rises from the midst of peaceful Redwallers, they follow clues that rhyme and allow the plot to move forward, stuff happen (usually reunions), then a huge battle ensues. However, I didn’t expect this bread and butter structure to be followed so literally.
From this selection, it’s evident that Jacques is just milking out as much as possible. It takes FOREVER for the plot to move its way forward, and when it does it GRINDS its way through. This book is just about 80% filler (although, I should have been used to that, because, hey, it’s Redwall). But the filler didn’t feel like scenes of hearty show more feasts, depicted emotions, or amusing chortle-worthy jokes, it just felt like filler.
Personally, I felt that Jacques hearty, adventurous writing style was greatly lacking. Everything is rather forced.
High Rhulain should only be read for the sake of having the right to say: “Redwall? Oh, yeah. I read that series. Every single one of them!” show less
As I picked up this novel, I expected the typical Redwall plot: Far-off land is in trouble, A warrior rises from the midst of peaceful Redwallers, they follow clues that rhyme and allow the plot to move forward, stuff happen (usually reunions), then a huge battle ensues. However, I didn’t expect this bread and butter structure to be followed so literally.
From this selection, it’s evident that Jacques is just milking out as much as possible. It takes FOREVER for the plot to move its way forward, and when it does it GRINDS its way through. This book is just about 80% filler (although, I should have been used to that, because, hey, it’s Redwall). But the filler didn’t feel like scenes of hearty show more feasts, depicted emotions, or amusing chortle-worthy jokes, it just felt like filler.
Personally, I felt that Jacques hearty, adventurous writing style was greatly lacking. Everything is rather forced.
High Rhulain should only be read for the sake of having the right to say: “Redwall? Oh, yeah. I read that series. Every single one of them!” show less
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.
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Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. After he finished St. John's School at the age of fifteen, he became a merchant seaman and travelled to numerous ports including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a show more longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a police constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic. During the sixties, he was a member of the folk singing group The Liverpool Fishermen. He wrote both poetry and music, but he began his writing career in earnest as a playwright. His three stage plays Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies, and Scouse have been performed at the Everyman Theatre. He wrote Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where he delivered milk as a truck driver. His style of writing is very descriptive, because of the nature of his first audience, for whom he painted pictures with words, so that they could see them in their imaginations. After Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, read Redwall, he showed it to a publisher without telling Jacques. This event led to a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series. He also wrote the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He died on February 5, 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- High Rhulain
- Original publication date
- 2005 (original) (original); 2007 (Russian translation) (Russian translation)
- People/Characters
- Riggu Felis; Tiria Wildlough; Cuthbert Blanedale Frunk; Leatho Shellhound; Lady Kaltag; Zillo the Bard (show all 8); Lord Mandoral Highpeak; Brantalis Skyfurrow
- Important places
- Green Isle; Redwall Abbey
- Epigraph
- When autumn's day grows old,
sad orchard leaves do fall.
Dawn breaks o'er silent gardens,
bereft of sweet birdcall.
Stark winter's dirge then wails,
until the earth appears,
white clade 'neath drifted dunes,... (show all)
whilst trees bear crystal spears.
My chamber is a refuge here,
against the snowbound night,
a flickering cave of crimson gold,
made warm by firelight,
where images are conjured,
of friends I used to know.
I battled and I marched with them,
one dusty long-ago.
I see them now arise again,
in memory that ne'er will fail.
Their legend is reborn anew,
and thus begins my tale. - Dedication
- To Alan Ingram, the guardian at Redwall's gate!
- First words
- The wind moaned like a wounded beast in the southwest.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For you know, my dear friend, the gates of Redwall Abbey in Mossflower Country are always open to all good hearts, young and old.
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