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Summary: You Must Read This!! (the book, no the review)
Review: Fire Bringer is my favorite book ever! The descriptions make you feel like you are experiencing every things, and the characters are so complex that I notice more even after reading it for the third time. The adventure is wonderful, but there are also some parts that are truely sad. I am a hard critic, and when I got this book, I thought it was going to be another typical fantasty story. By the end of the first couple chapters I knew I was wrong. Please give this a book a chance, and maybe it will be special for you too.
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Summary: Oh My God! How great is this book? (Pretty Great...)
Review: How do I love this book?
Let me count the ways...
Seriously, though, this book was quite possibly the biggest and best surprise I've ever given myself. I simply stumbled onto this book one day and into one of the greatest anthropomorphic stories I've ever read. Ever.
The characters are admirable, especially Rannoch, who must come to grips with his destiny, which he does with flying colors.
Some characters dies, yes, but not needlessly or superfluously, as in many cases. In the end, good triumphs over evil. I'll never get tired of seeing that.
All in all, a rollicking adventure with many memorable characters and events.
Two thumbs up!
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Summary: Not bad, but not wonderful either.
Review: The story is good, if not particularly original, and I do like the use of non-humans as main charactors... HOWEVER. This book could be about -any- species of mammal. Change the few deer-specific facts strewn through-out the book and it could be about horses, or wolves, or foxes, or humans.I am much more fond of non-human charactors who -act- in non-human ways. Not deer that form totalitrian governments, spawn twisted Cults, and otherwise act as much unlike deer as possible. This was the same problem I had with Watership Down, so it's gone on my bookshelf under the 'loan to friends' catagory. It's good enough to warrent one read-through, but on repeat reading the un-deerness starts to get annoying. Ah well, could have been a -lot- worse. ^_^
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Summary: PURTTY DARNED GOOD!!!
Review: When a Redwall book starts out, there is usually something happy gong on in the Abbey or elsewhere. Soon, Brian Jacques brings in the bad guy, "Fire Bringer" is a tad more than a tad different. By the end of the FIRST chapter, the good side's hopes are looking a tad more than a tad grim. By about page 200, it seems like nothing but impending doom will come. If you are one of the many people that is saying, "500 pages, I would be bored out of my skull by the time I finish that," you're wrong. In the first few chapters or so, David Clement-Davies has got you pretty comfortable with this whole deer subject, and you probably will be very familiar with the Herd. Once all of the talking deer stuff & all their ways become normal, Clement-Davies fires curves rapidly that are both very suprising and unusual, and all of them change the main outcome of the story somehow. Trust me, the book is not a drag. Even the second time through (over about a year time period), I read almost half of the book (the last half) in one night! HIGHLY SUGGESTED FOR ANYON WHO LOVES DEER OR REDWALL!!!
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Summary: This book kept me on the edge of my seat!!!!!!
Review: Have you ever gone to a movie and been on the edge of your seat? Well this book put me on the edge of my seat. This book is about what its like to be a young deer. The deer have their own groups and even their own enemy groups. The deer fight for their lives, and I found myself hating Sgorr, the enemy, along with the Outriders. The book allows you to 'see' Rannoch grow up. It shows him from when he is little, fighting off bullies and not understanding the strange mark on his head up to when he is a full-grown deer. Rannoch always puts friends and family before him, especially Bankfoot and his mom, Elion. The plot is exciting up until the conclusion. I would recommend this book to any good reader. Believe me, you won't want to put it down!
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Summary: Fantastic Emotional Mix-Up
Review: This is by far one of the best books i have ever read.
I usually don't pick up and read such books,i leave them for the animal lovers. But this book it drew my attention and when i started reading it, i couldn't stop because i was worried i'd miss out on something. It was like leaving a movie to go to the bathroom when i had to go to bed. It felt like i was missing out a part.
This book is not for nature and animal lovers, it is for lovers of fine literature.
David Clement-Davies is surely a very gifted and talented writer.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Fire Bringer is one of my favourite books - The Sight being another one.
Fire Bringer tells of Rannoch, a buck whose father is killed the night he was born, and many adventures he has. Born with an oak leaf mark, Rannoch is thought to be the one who would free the rest of the deer from "evil", as it was then the reign on Drail, the Lord of the Herds. He was switched with a dead fawn on the night of his birth and thought to be dead, and his mother was taken away from him to Drail.
There are detailed "scenes", and there's death, but it's a great book which I highly recommend.
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Summary: Rannoch, the Fire Bringer
Review: This is a great adventure book for those who love animals and who love adventure. Rannoch is born the night his father was murdered. Rannoch is switched with a fawn that was dead, for his mother, Eloin, is greatly desired by the Dralia, who desire power over all the deer herds, including the roe and fallow deer herds. Rannoch is raised by Bracken, who carefully disguises his oak leaf mark on his forehead. For Rannoch, the oak leaf symbol will put him in danger many times over the course of his life. In part three of the book, Rannoch, hating battle and fighting, fights against Sggor, the [Lord of all Herds], and claims a victory. At last, Rannoch has found his place in the Procephy, the one chanted throughout all his life.
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Summary: I LOVED this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This was a great book. It really makes you like deer and look at them with a whole new perspective. Rannoch, a red deer fawn, is born the night his father was murdered. He is born with a white oak leaf mark on his forehead which can only mean one thing, the prophecy.
Chased out of his power hungry herd when he is still a young fawn, he and his friends and mother must find their way to safety while Sgorr, the leader of the power hungry deer herd, chase them. On the journey, they realize how special a deer Rannoch really is. Along the way there are tragedies and triumphs. They meet friend and foe. Harsh winters, humans, and Sgorr are only some of the obstacles they face. Will they survive? Read this wonderful book to find out.
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Summary: Amazon.com
Review: Young Rannoch was born on the night is Outrider father, Brechin,died of eviel Drail's plan. He was born with an oak leaf on his brow. This is what started his adventure. He was part of the Prophecy. He was to free all Herla(deer) from Drail and Sgorr. He was switched at birth so that Drail would not kill Brechin's buck. He left with a couple of other Herla to escape from Drail. And all moves on from there. I thought this was a great book because something upexpected always happens. It keeps you on the hook. This is one book that if you read it, you will never forget it.
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