Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall

This is one of my FAVORITE Redwall books! It really got me...You will love it; it has everything a good book needs!

My favorite Redwall book, but unpopular. It seems a lot more mature than most of the series. To jaygheiser--they *are* a lot alike. Take a break from reading Redwall books. Come back to the series in a few months. If you find that's not enough time off, take a year.

Brian Jacques' tale of animal adventure, betrayal, and the classic plot of age old enemies struggling to defeat one another. Sprinkled with a little magic and some different animal accents to boot, this book is for those with a wilder take on our woodland friends.

Book review by David H.. posted by CA Library:

"The Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques is the eighth novel in the Redwall series. The novel is fiction it is about one of the few Badger lords, Snunflash the Mace, that appear in the series. When the badger was young he was taken slave by Swartt Six

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claw the ferret. He escaped one cold night with the help of Skarlath a hawk.

Hunted by Swartt Sixclaw and his horde and accompanied by his new companion Skarlath, Sunflash the Mace travels to the mysterious Badger lord Mountain due to his strange dreams he keeps having. Meeting many creatures, making many friends and fighting many enemies along the way.

I give this book a four out of five stars. I rated this Novel the way I did because of the way the author , Brain Jacques, makes the characters come to life. How when a character is feeling pain you feel sympathy. If the character is triumphed you feel happy for him. I recommend this book to people who like adventure fantasy."

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[Outcast of Redwall] is another well plotted story from Redwall world of [[Brian Jacques]]. I like how he ties this story back to earlier ones, providing generational history of badgers and mice. Highly entertaining reading, with distinctive personalities for moles, shrews, ferrets, foxes, mice,

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hedgehogs, and badgers. Aside from his characterization and plotting, Mr. Jacques provides amusing descriptions of the various foods the anthropomorphic animals eat. He also creates a variety of songs and poems for his characters to sing and recite. This book is enjoyable for all ages.

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A young stoat is taken in by the saintly woodland creatures of Redwall, who raise him as best they can. But his "true nature" is always making itself known--he plays lots of cruel pranks and keeps lying and stealing. At last, he runs away to seek his fortune elsewhere. The story follows several

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Redwall creatures as they go off on their own adventure; eventually they encounter the earstwhile stoat once more, who has joined with a band of ruffians. Fighting ensues, and the stoat throws himself into the path of an arrow to save his foster-mother. THEY DO NOT MOURN HIM. Because, you see, he didn't *really* mean to save her--he was just acting impulsively as always. WTF?

Years later, just thinking about the unfairness of this book drives me to clench my fists with rage. I have never read another Redwall book.

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Like all the Redwall books - on its own, it's a good story with a little depth. Sunflash the Mace, a badger, and his friend the hawk Skarlath, versus the ferret Swartt Sixclaw; Sunflash comes to Salamandastron and becomes the new Badger Lord. Side story that interacts with the main one - Veil

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Sixclaw growing up in Redwall. Plus Sunflash is Bella's son, and they meet at the end (timeline - Bella knew Martin, when she was younger). Species is destiny, pretty much, though Veil does manage to transcend a little bit. Funny bits, foodie bits, mildly gory bits, a pleasant read but not much more.

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The first time I read this book I had some trouble finishing it. At the time, I'd been reading Redwall novels almost nonstop, and the stories were starting to all be very similar to me.

However, several years have since gone by, and when I picked this book up again I eagerly devoured its contents.

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Perhaps not the best book in the series, but certainly a fine offering.

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