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The Pearls Of Lutra | . |
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Brian Jacques |
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was the first and best book that I have read in the Redwall series. This one doesn't have
the original 'Martin the Warrior' in it because he has already died. The hero in this book
is another warrior mouse who is called Martin the warrior, just like the previous Martin.
Even though he was one of the best warriors in Redwall's history, Martin is still not as
good as the first Martin and it would be a great honour to him if he could be as good. It starts off when two youngsters from Redwall find a skeleton. The others eventually find out that it is the skeleton of a dead weasel who died of a wound, not old age. He was holding an old spoon from Redwall! The spoon turned out to be a possession of a very old squirrel who had died. Her name had been Fermald the Ancient and the weasel had been cared for by her when he came to the Abbey. The Abbot remembered that Fermald had warned him that if someone asked about the weasel he should say that he was never there. She also warned about the 'wrath of Mad Eyes'. Meanwhile, Grath Longfletch, the last remaining otter from her murdered holt, is starting her journey to avenge her family. The story leads the Redwallers into serious trouble and Mad Eyes proves to be a very real threat! There are friends to rescue, riddles to solve and a quest to complete. New friends are made along the way and their fortunes hang on the balance of a battle against evil. It was great fun trying to solve the riddles and some of them were very hard. Sometimes me and mum could solve a riddle before they even had a clue!!!!! The book was written from the point of view of four partys. Mad Eyes' point of view, the Sea rats' point of view, Martins' point of view and Tansys' point of view. Each chapter was someone else's point of view and you always wanted to find out what was going to happen next in every chapter. Sometimes you had to wait an awfully long time to find out. The style of writing was not easy for me but not tremendously hard. There was a bit of difficult language but not that much. The text was in an easy style of print so I had no problems in overall reading. I thought that the pictures on the cover were excellent and I think that Gary Chalk did very well. This was a very exciting book with a lot of suspense and I enjoyed it very much. So much that I am starting to collect the whole set. 3rd Aug 1999 |
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