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Summary: Taggerung
Review: Taggerung
Taggerung is a very exciting book with lots of action and adventure. The action starts in the very first paragraph, when it tells about the vermin clan of Sawney Rath. The adventure starts soon after when Denya is mistaken for Taggerung and taken from his family. Boys and girls would both enjoy this thrilling book. This book is definitely for advanced readers. I would suggest people ten or younger do not read this book. People who like action or adventure this is the book for you. The plot of this story is this. Deyna's father takes him to a ford, where the vermin clan of Sawney Rath kills his father and take Deyna back to there camp because they think that he is the Taggerung. Deyna is taught to fight and track. Later he realizes he is not really Taggerung and runs away to find his family. In his travels he meets Nimbalo. Together they travel back to Redwall(Deyna's birth place) with many difficulties. When they got to Redwall Deyna is seriously wounded and has healed back to heath by a old otter healer. Finally he was reunited with his family. The main characters of this book are Deyna who was the important character. Nimbalo who is Deyna'a best friend. Mhera who is Deyna's sister and Abbess of Redwall. Cregga Rose Eyes who is the badgermum of Redwall and former ruler of Salamdastron. Sawney Rath who is the leader of the vermin clan. Gruven who is the leader of the small group sent out to capture Deyna.
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Summary: The Taggerung: A Review
Review: The Taggerung is another epic novel in the Redwall series written by Brian Jacques.
The story begins northwest of the Redwall Abbey in Mossflower Wood. Vermin clans called the Juska encamp in the dunes west of the flatlands. Their prophecy states that an otter with a special birthmark who lives in Mossflower Wood is their Taggerung, a legendary creature destined to be the ruler of the clans. After kidnapping the baby otter, the Rath Clan, one of the Juska, raises it. When the otter reached adulthood, the Rath clan had some doubts whether the otter was the real Taggerung. The otter was later framed of the Rath leader's death, and as a result the otter ran from the clan. Tagg, as he was nicknamed,
began to look for his old home he knew. He had many adventures along the way, and some aided his quest home, and some also supplemented his knowledge to his home.
Meanwhile, The Rath clan was taken over by a stoat named Gruven. He couldn't
become Taggerung without killing the previous one, so he and a group of eight set out to hunt down the otter. The hunting party ends up being divided due to the desire for the title of Taggerung among the vermin. Eventually, they confront the Taggerung in Redwall. Tagg and his companion Nimbalo drives the vermin out and is nursed by the "otterfixer," Rukky. He is later reunited with his family. However, The Abbey facces yet another challenge.
Taggerung is a really adventerous and exciting novel. Like most of the other Redwall books, it's a page-turner. The characters are well developed, and new characters fit well with the plot.However, the ending is somewhat corny and is of pure luck. With that aside, the book has many good parts. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fantasy and adventure books.
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Summary: The Best Redwall Book Yet!
Review: The Taggeruung was an excellent book for young readers around the world. Full of excitement and adventure, the story pits an otter named Dina on a journey you will never forget.
Lost as a young otterbabe, Dina was taken out of the wilderness by Sawney Rath, leader of a Juska Clan. Sawney believed that Dina was the Taggerung, a legendary warrior who was unbeatable in the arts of war. Dina was renamed Tagg by Sawney. As the young otter matures, his natural talent and gracefulness in all aspects of war develops. Although Tagg is an astounding warrior, he has never killed anyone, so when Sawney Rath commanded him to skin a member of the clan alive, he ran away. The clan sends a band of the best warriors to catch Tagg. As Tagg battles fierce obstacles, he is joined by a field mouse named Nimbalo, who becomes his friend and companion. Together they journey toward Redwall Abbey, where Tagg finally learns his true identity as Dina!
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Summary: But they are all the same....
Review: Am I the only one who notices that Jacques' books/plot lines are all the same? I'm beginning to feel like I'm reading the same book over and over again with different character names. Maybe it's just me, but this is starting to wear thin.
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Summary: The Redwall Collection Review
Review: In this book author Brian Jacques is very descriptive and compelling. It tells of a young child taken from his family to be brought up in the wrong way. This book is written with the upmost skill an author could possibly hope for.
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Summary: The best of the best!
Review: Taggerung, a warrior that is the best. I really enjoyed the Taggerung because the character choice was the best Brian Jacques has ever done compared to Martin the Warrior. It was exellent!!!!
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Summary: Coulda been better
Review: First of all I have to say that I have read every Redwall book and I have loved all of them. This one was no different, and even though the story line was amazing and the charactors full of life and emotion(I especcaily liked little Nimbalo), I think that Brian is losing his touch just a little bit. While I don't agree with the kid from LA who said the book wasn't worth your time, I really think that the style of writing Jacques used was way to simple. There wasn't nearly as much figurative speech as there was in the rest of his [utterly fabulous] books, and I think that Jacques over hear could have put a little more effort into the way the book was written. I love this book just as much as I loved the rest of them, but this wasn't as good as the Long Patrol, Lord Broctree or Marlfox. Even though this is what I think, I'll read his books until he writes no more.
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Summary: Taggerung: Best Book
Review: This book is about an ottercub kidnapped by a vermin horde. When the ottercub is grown-up, he finds out that he does not want to be evil. So he escaped and is now going in the direction to Redwall abbey. This was such a good book that I want to read it again.
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Summary: Wow! Redwall's come to life again!
Review: Apart from the original, I think this is the best Rewall book ever. Why? It's just so different! This time Brian Jacques has almost changed the monotonous old Redwall formula (i.e. Random guy gets a summoning from M the warrior to go on a quest, finds the route through riddles hidden in a song... etc). Rolicking adventure is replaced by an emotionally charged plot, with it's joys and sorrows, victories and defeats, and it's refreshingly new, nothing like the disappointing 'Lord Brocktree'. Being the latest book chronologically also has it's advantages, as this brings in a whole cast of new characters (as well as keeping two of the old). And the characters are just great! Sawney Rath, the adoptive father of Tagg who changes from almighty cheftain to old bodger, Nimbalo the harvestmouse, brought up by a cruel father and wanting to prove himself, Rukky the mysterious otter healer... they are all marvellously placed forward in the development of the story. And there's more. This time Redwall itself is given a new, more organised feel. There's a dibbun choir, wallguards, music teacher... This time there's a badgerlord without bloodwrath, Russano the wise (yay!)... this time there's real frienship, hatred, romance... and, to the disappointment of some fans Iguess, not much action (there's not even a main bad guy, and no final showdown); but I think that's a great change (sort of, everyone lives happily ever after, except for Gruven). Also, the scene of Cregga's death had me close to tears (really!). I just hope that other books will feature Deyna and his friends, Fwirl, Broogle and Rosabel, Mhera and Filorn, Old Hoarg, Boorab (he actually made me laugh out loud). They're simply amazing characters, and Brian Jacques has simply done an amazing job on this, his latest book. Top marks sah, wot wot! (Finally, does anyone have the same suspicion as me that Madd is really Fwirl's lost mother? :P)
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Summary: great book--but losing the Redwall touch
Review: I have been a fairly obsessive Redwall fan for a long time and I have read the whole seires multiple times. I must admit that I was disappointed with this one. I mean, yeah, it's a Redwall book and any Redwall book deserves at least 3 stars, but after reading some amazing books in the series like Salamandastron and Pearls of Lutra, this one just didn't cut it for me. I predicted the whole story after the fifth chapter, and the puzzles were the simplest of any Redwall book. Anyone who has read all the books could easily guess the ending. There wasn't even that much action, mostly tears and emotion.(bleh)
Anyone who is sort of familiar with the Redwall series, this is a great book, but you would get the same package, if not better, by reading any of the others. This book is good, yes, but it does not have the touch that Brian Jaques used to have. Die-hard Redwall fans, don't even waste your time with this one.
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