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Summary: WOT WOT! and all that jazz
Review: Evil. Princess Kurda is a one of the most evil known. She has grown tired of using vegetables to practice her sword fighting on. Now she wants to use the slaves that are rebellious to practice her sword fighting moves.
Triss is the last book in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It is the 16th book in that series. The characters in this book are all different. The villains are cruel and pitiless and the heroes are brave and courageous. This book has all kinds of different things in it. It has sword fighting, friends, enemies, attacks, captures and much more. The adventures in this series and book are interesting and they show all of the characters points of view in a story. They all have their own personalities. This makes the story a lot more enjoyable to read.
All of the characters in the Redwall Series are animals. My favorite animal out of all of the characters is the hare. They always say "Wot wot!" and "flipin" and "blinkin." The hares always make me laugh because they eat enormous amounts of food and then say it was a "little morsel of scoff". These books are hilarious and exciting at the same time. Brian Jacques is one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: This book is something I know you'll enjoy!
Review: I always loved Redwall books and have read pretty much of them, so I've got to admit that they are getting a tiny bit boring for me. I was thinking of putting this book for four stars since this book was a little bit like "Martin the Warrior" (which is about slaves who escape an island ruled by vermin and promises to return to free the others), but the action, excitment, humor, and poems made me think, "Oh well, I loved this book anyway!"Here's the Story: Triss is a young brave squirrel who is enslaved with many other slaves on the island of Riftgard, which is ruled by the evil King Agarnu and his son and daughter Prince Bladd and the sadistic Princess Kurda. Triss and her otter and hedgehog friend Shogg and Welfo are determined to leave the terrible island and to return to free the other wretched slaves...and to slay the Pure Ferrets to end the evil for once and for all! Meanwhile, two Dibbuns from Redwall Abbey have wandered off and gone missing in the Mossflower Woods. As they are found about a day later during a storm by Skipper of Otters and Log-a-Log the Chieftain of Shrews, the Dibbuns tell the elders that they had found an oak tree which provided them shelter. The oak tree had a cunningly hidden door, they said and the older Abbey creatures realize that the babies had found the mysterious Brockhall! They decide to find the place. (here's where most of the poems, songs, and RIDDLES comes out!) But some evil beast (or beasts?) are living there and they are determined to defend their home... At the great moutain of Salamandastron, the stronghold of badgers and hares, the young badger Sagax and his gluttonous hare friend Scarum have runaway from endless chores and from the stern paw of their parents. Meeting their otter friend Kroova, they both sail out into the sea, planning to go to Redwall where food and safety was. (Scarum is pretty happy about the food!)
All paths and purposes of the three main runaways are different, but of course, they all cross at the famous Redwall Abbey! I thought that this book had all that a book needed: Excitement, suspense, humor, and lots of action! All 402 pages of it would keep you intrigued, although around the middle part it gets a bit slow. I thought that bantering with the Freebooters and Princess Kurda was in a way kind of funny! Scarum is, like all hares, totally exasperating and has that usual 'British accent, wot wot?' I'm sure anyone would enjoy reading "Triss"! My other favorite Redwall books I recommend are: "Lord Brocktree"
"Taggerung"
"Martin the Warrior" Of course, other Redwall books are cool too, but these are my favorites!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I am an avid reader, and I have thoroughly enjoyed all the Redwall books. However, I found Triss a huge disappointment. For me, it was just too much of the same stuff in the other Redwall books. I thought it was so boring that I never finished it. And my friends all agree that Triss is sadly lacking the magic of the other Redwall books.
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Summary: Quite a disappointment
Review: I am an avid Redwall fan and have been reading Redwall books for over 6 years. So when Triss came out, I eagerly rushed to the bookstore and bought it. I was disappointed. After the Taggerung, which is my favourite book of the series, Triss seems very... shallow. The 'puzzle' is ridiculously easy, the characters, especially Triss, are almost undeveloped and very bland, typical Redwall Characters. Characters like Mem Flackery and Ovus are introduced but never fully developed. Neither is Sagax. And all in all the sea voyage feels like a direct copy of the Pearls of Lutra. Peace Island = Ruddaring. Riftguard = Sampetra. But Triss, like all Redwall books, has it's moments. Princess Kurda is unbeatable as a spoilt swordsmaster and Bescarum is the most hilarious hare out of the whole series, apart from maybe Basil Stag himself. Plugg, Tazzin and the rest of the Freebooters are funny and have a more happy go lucky atmosphere than other seafaring vermin. The extended epilogue is ingenious and works very well. The cover illustration is the most beautiful of any Redwall book (top marks for David Watt!)... but swallows NEVER feature, or even get mentioned! And then you have this: Shogg and Kroova had become close friends. The sea otter shouted down to Shogg, 'I'll tell Friar Gooch t'make some shrimp'n'hotroot soup to share with ye on yore return, mate.'
Shogg grinned from ear to ear. 'Yore a good'un, matey. I'll look forward to that. We'll scoff it t'gether.' The moment ANYONE familiar with Redwall reads this they just KNOW that Shogg will die. And he does. And at the end of the chapter that Shogg dies, Triss bursts out laughing at Scarum's antics and forgets all about her old friend. Just like that. Triss could have become a classic. And it should have. It's just that Brian Jacques seems to be writing with more adventure than emotion. And a great plot with dull characters just doesn't work. I was going to give this 3 and a half stars, but there was no option. And four stars is just an overstatement.
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Summary: Identical To All Other Redwall Books
Review: I am usually delighted in Mr Jacques funny and inviting style of writing-- and I still was, don't get me wrong. I love the descriptions of food/drinks (strawberry cordial!)and all the poems that he so brilliantly writes, but he does tend to be repetitive.
The inside cover of the book told me and everyone else who bothered to read it that these three travelings would be intertwined-- and they were...but I was disappointed at how subtle and boorish it became. Journeys are rarely and exciting event for me, and this was no exception. Evenso, applaud must be given for his inserted humor (notice the hares) and narrative.
Still, you should probably read it if you are a devoted Redwall fan, and if you've read anything by Jacques, than you should also read the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. Written in the same style as Redwall, with a touch more of excitement.
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Summary: A great book; one of the best books in the Redwall series
Review: I liked this book, and really think it should be rated more then four stars, but still less then five. This book is about a slave squirrelmaid, Triss, who escapes her slavery (at Riftgard) with two other slaves, Shogg, the otter, and a molemaid, Welfo. They are just trying to escape fully so that someday they can go back and free all the rest of the slaves.
And then, at Salamandastron, the badger lord's son, Sagax, a warrior rabbit's son, Scarum, and a seaotter, Kroova, want to go on an adventure. They decide to try and find Redwall Abbey.
At Redwall Abbey, two Dibbuns (babies) 'escape' and go into the forest, and discover the long lost Brockhall ( the most ancient hall of the badger lords). Unfortunately, it is inhabited by three snakes (adders).
Meanwhile, the princess ferret, Kurda, wants to go find the escaped slaves who stole her fathers ship. Her brother, Bladd, goes with her (though he doesn't want to), with a bunch of Ratguards, as well as a shipfull of Freebooters, led by a silver fox.
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Summary: Triss
Review: I LOVED the book Triss as I think of the whole series. This story is mainly about a young sqirrel named Triss who escapes form slavery. She finds Redwall Abbey where she finds her destiny is tied with. Before she takes her venegance, she helps redwallers from a huge three headed serphent! This book was very exciting, and as all redwallers know, has a humorous twist. I reccomened this book to anyone who loves adventure.-I M A RDWLL FAN
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Summary: Triss rocks!
Review: I started reading the Redwall books when I was in fifth grade, with Mossflower, Redwall, and Mattimeo, the good old originals. I fell in love with them and own all of them except for Loamhedge and Rakkety Tam, which I might not read. Aa a high schooler I still read them for kicks when they come of in paperback, because for the most part they are an amusing, quick read. But Triss proves that Redwall most definitely needs to end . . . NOW. Jaques needs to write something new, or a new Redwall with a twist no one in their right mind would expect.
This book is a template of all the other Redwall books, so it reads like a stripped hinge. The good guys are bothersome and righteous, as always, and the bad guys are typical and underdeveloped, as always. I find these fumbling villans halfway sympathetic, but as in all Redwall books, they all inevitably die. Jaques no longer writes with the charm and appeal of the older books that I fell in love with. Triss is tiresome and completely recycled. The only aspect I found amusing was the phonetic spelling of the germanic accent of the head hauncho villans, a royal family of albino nordic ferrets, which in itself is pretty funny. Otherwise, I don't think the book is worth buying, even in paperback.
At this point, I feel that Brian Jacques has pretty much murdered his own series by exhausting and turning some interesting situations, like in Taggerung and Outcast of Redwall, where you have good-evil crossover, into thouroughly crummy books. He needs to create a new series that takes place in the same world, but that covers an entirely different time period of a different place, like Loamhedge during its height. Or perhaps he should write about a totally different abby in the north, Greenhenge or something, that is not run my mice and such but by foxes and weasels. That would interesting, because it might blur Jacques' enormously fat line between good and evil.
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Summary: Brian Jacques is Losing His Touch
Review: I'm a very avid Brian Jacques fan, but Triss has to be the worst one yet. Nothing in the entire novel was original; it was all the same gluttonous hares, naughty dibbuns and smelly, stupid vermin. I think it's about time for a change of pace. Nothing seems to be changing, it's just a recycling of old, overused ideas. Now, I shall definitely keep reading Jacques's Redwall books for as long as they continue to come out, but I seriously think it's about time for something different and radical.
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Summary: Jacques losing his touch?
Review: I'm not one to diss Redwall or Brian Jacques. I grew up on Redwall. Mossflower remains one of my favorite books, and I've always been very excited when a new Redwall book came out. However, "Triss" just didn't seem all that great to me. And I don't think it's because I've 'outgrown' the series, because only last year I read "Taggerung" and thought it was great. "Triss" tells the story of a squirrel maid, an otter, and a hedgehog who escape from slavery, hit the high seas, meet up with some new friends and eventually make it to Redwall. Sound familar? Well, that's because it is. I'm fine with Jacques using the same basic plot line in his books, but this one hasn't been re-hashed at all. The characters aren't really developed. You never really *like* any of them. They're the same characters from past books, but with less life. They're mostly one trick ponies, especially the hare, Scarum. There's always a riddle in every book that the Redwall creatures have to solve. And usually, it's a tricky one. I can't figure it out. This one I got the first time they said the clue. It was *really* simple, and just made me feel even more that Jacques hadn't put a lot of effort into "Triss". Being a Redwall book, "Triss" can't get any less than three stars. But it really can't get more than that, either.
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