Mossflower (Redwall, Book 2)

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Summary: Mossflower
Review: In this commendable novel, Brian Jacques creates a world of mice, moles, cats, badgers, and many other creatures. It is about a war against the destructive armies of Kotir, led by Queen Tsarmina, who are trying to take over Mossflower. In it, a mouse warrior named Martin is trying to save the woodlanders by making a journey into the unknown. In this story, Brian Jacques portrays the attitudes of each species in a certain way, but also includes the personalities of the individual characters. The author also has a diversity of vocabulary and writing styles, placing the storyline in with interesting details. This book also shows the reality of war. At first, I thought this book would be severely boring, but I was wrong. This book is an intriguing, well-written story. It has a unpredictable plot, lovable characters, and malicious villains. The only terrible bad part is how the author at some points leaves you hanging when he stops at the climax of the section. I enjoyed reading this book and would want everyone to read it. I would really recommend this book to all readers who love advernture, fantasy, excitement, and suspense.

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Summary: Well-written, exciting, I'd give it six!
Review: Mossflower is an excellent addition to the Redwall series, and pretty soon my copy's going to fall apart; I've read it WAY too many times! I enjoyed reading this book for several reasons. First, it's exciting! The battles are in the right places, they're never drawn out, and they will always find a way to shock, amuse, or effect you. Second, the plot is an excellent and genuine find. It's not the same old, same old, plots that have found their ways into books. It's fresh. Third, it has Martin the Warrior in it. He's my absolute favorite character of all, and any book with him is fine by me.

SUMMARY: For a long time, the peaceful land of Mossflower and its inhabitants were under the claws of Verdauga, King of a Thousand Eyes and a wildcat tyrant. When he falls ill, however, he passes on the ruling to his far crueler daughter Tsarmina. The peaceful woodlanders begin leaving the settlement as the evil wildcat demands more and more tribute to the wildcat fortress, Kotir. Because of this, Tsarmina declares a war on the woodlanders, knowing that she would have to weed them out before Kotir falls into famine (the soldiers are no farmers!). Just as things look pretty bad for the woodlanders who know little of war, a young mouse hero who was witnessed to beat up a patrol "single-pawed" (as in, weaponless) comes along. This hero, of course, is Martin.

Soon, the woodlanders find a new hope. They are convinced that if they could contact Boar the Fighter, the badger ruler of Mossflower, they could defeat Tsarmina and her vermin horde. Bella, daughter of Boar the Fighter, calls upon Martin (who is accompanied by his friends Gonff the Prince of Mousethieves and Young Dinny the mole) to go to Salamandastron to seek out Boar the Fighter. In the end, however, it is brave, fearless, heroic (I'm naming a few of Martin's good traits. There are way too many!) Martin the Warrior who comes to battle Tsarmina!

I won't say anymore. I don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it! Anyway, read this book. It's excellent. The other Redwall books are excellent too, and I'm anticipating the arrival of "Triss" and "Loamhedge" in bookstores. Later!

~*DatBzzEB*~

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Summary: Mossflower
Review: Mossflower starts out kind of slow. But after awhile it starts to go faster. And u start to get more interesed in it. along the way Martin has lots of adventures. And has lots of enemies,but he also has lots of friends. this is a book that u can't put down.

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Summary: Mossflower
Review: The main characters in 'Mossflower' are Martin (from 'Martin the Warrior'), Bella of Brockhall (Brockhall is a badger compound), Skipper (also known as Skip, he's the skipper of the otter crew), Lady Amber (the peaceful queen of the squirrels), Goffen Prince of mouse thieves (a good thief), Tsarmina (an evil wild cat Queen... the queen of Kotir) Gingivere (Tsarmina's brother but that of a kind and gentle heart) Ben and Goody Stickle (a hedgehog couple owning the four baby hedgehogs Spike, Posy, Ferdy and Coggs), Dinny (a young mole), Chibb (a red breast robin acting as a spy), Log-a-Log (a friendly shrew) and Boar the fighter (Bella's father) and the list goes on.

When I opened the front cover of this book on the first page there was a snippet from the book and here it is:

For a moment Martin's eyes meet those of Tsarmina's. His voice was clear and unafraid. "You should have killed me when you had the chance, because I vow that I will slay you one day."
The spell was broken. The guards hauled on the ropes, dragging Martin off to the cells. In the silence that followed, Tsarmina slumped in her chair and sniggered "A mouse kill me, indeed! He's hardly worth worrying about."

But boy was she wrong! In the rest of the book you are just enticed in the adventures from dancing crabs to stolen children, it is in the last and final chapters that Tsarmina is slain by a true warrior, it is also in these final chapters the most tense chapters that we find out weather our strong and heroic warrior's life is so close to being snuffed that you need a box of tissues. This is a book with such a long but exciting and action packed plot that it would take twenty pages to explain, it is hear dear friends that I take my leave...and leave you to this fantastic book of all emotions.

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Summary: Really good book!!!
Review: This is the first book I have read in the Redwall series, and I suggest that you read this book first. I really enjoyed this book.
This book is mainly about a mouse named Martin the Warrior. He comes to the Mossflower Woods and gets captured by the evil Tsarmina and becomes a prisoner. However, he gets freed and goes out on a mission to find Boar the Fighter, accompanied by his three new friends, Gonff the Thief, Dinny the mole, and Log a Log, the shrew.
Meanwhile in the Mossflower Woods, Tsarmina and her army and the woodlanders, (moles, hedgehogs, mice, squirrels, badgers, etc.) fight for freedom, when Martin and his friends return from their journey and helps the woodlanders.
I enjoyed this book and I suggest that you should read it too!