Title: The worst of the Redwall series, pretty disappointing
Product review: I have read almost all of the Redwall series, and I have loved most of them enough to read them several times, but Mariel of Redwall was severely lacking the usual beauty and magic of the previous books. The story was simply boring at times, and there is nothing that draws you to Mariel as a likeable character as Matthias, Mattimeo, or Martin did, in fact she is fairly close to just being plain annoying. I love Jacques' work and am only strongly criticizing this book because it does not nearly live up to his usual standards. Salamandastron is much better, so I suggest reading this book only to follow in the sequence, because it is not that good at all, and the death of the bad sea pirate character is rather disturbing especially for young children.
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