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and her friend Dandin go off into mossflower woods to fight the evil vermin that are under the rule of Foxwolf Urgan Nagru and his mate Silvamord.
They meet a hedghog Bowly Pintips, a hare that calls himself Field Marshal Meldrum Fallowthorn the Magnificient and his four nephews.
So they go onward towards Castle Floret and tries to help free Gael Squirrelking from Foxwolf Urgan Nagru.
there they meet Rab Streambattle and his mate Iris Streambattle with their army and attacks Castle Floret but only manages to free Serena and Truffen the king's mate and child.
Meanwhile Joseph the Bellmaker gets a vision and set off with his friends to help his daughter Mariel to defeat Urgan Nagru.
So then they all meet together with some other allies to attack and defeat Urgan Nagru, This is a great book and in my opinion can be enjoyed at many levels for all ages.
I have read every one of Brian Jacques books and am now on the second round of reading them.
Brian Jacques is sadly no longer with us so no more wonderful tales of Redwall, In this book Joseph the Bellmaker is visited in a dream by Martin the Warrior, He is told to set off and find his missing daughter, The book is full of action and adventure and of course a wicked enemy as always, No spoilers. If you are young at heart do try these delightful books, This book has a lot more of the same from Brian, Unfortunately he's sticking to awkward habits and badly thought out plot elements, Titled 'The Bellmaker,' it has very little to do with Joseph at all, other than the point that he is 'a' character, and that he has a dream of Martin.
It doesn't reveal much about him, and I certainly wouldn't place him as the lead with Mariel taking up more story space than he does.


Martin is back with yet another cryptic visiondream, . . thing, which is probably the detail that bothers me most, He acts as if he's an npc having an obscure unfamiliar vision of something yet to come, but he's doling it out to people he essentially lived with and, worse, are often in mortal peril.
I don't know about you, but if one of my dead 'family' members came back, only to warn me about my future using a cryptic riddle I had to solve, I'd probably be annoyed.
Pronouncing who should go on the quest, who they will fight along the way, and who may or may not die should not be left up to interpretation if you can see the future, especially when you're the ghost of a character who by all indicators should be up to the task of interpreting that information better than anyone.
Either Martin has become dull in the afterlife, or he's playing at something,

Another thing that troubled me in this book was the size of things, For instance, there is a ship that is depicted as an HMS 'manycannon' sailing ship, and they encounter a shark bigger than the ship itself which is fine, but the head gets stuck between the railing on the side.
A badger that uses two rats as nunchucks because its apparently that big and then walks up a generic stairway in a castle built for a squirrel.
A hedgehog who was described as a massive barbaric brute, but then is depicted as the exact same size as a standard hedgehog at the beginning of the chapter.
A 'gullwhacker' weapon that is somehow big enough to be used as a rope swing for mice on a tree.
I know there

were more, but those little details always stand out as odd,

The names in this book as well bothered me, with two standouts being Glogalog really and "the mousebabe" being rather terrible.
A mole who changes his name from Soilburr to Egburt the scholar, The main boss Urgan Nagru, who takes the name of a dead wolf named Urgan, but he spelled it backwards to show his enemies he could come from the front and back.
A bird named Glokkpod.

The "boss" of this book was supposed to be terrifying and needed a massive army to defeat, but was a petty liar who was constantly outsmarted by just a handful of heroes and bickered with his mate too much.
Oat cakes that are so hard they hurt or kill people, Using a military medal to cut through iron hinges on a prison cell door, Rosie flying through an entire storm on a ship mast, only to land safely on a snake, impaling it.
A permanent massive whirlpool that gave streams their current, but the stream current was super difficult to follow somehow.
Keeping a gate at the back of Redwall that babies could unlock and then having tea first before going to look for them.
A bird that flew into a prison cell because the bars were being replaced for some weird reason, and they replaced the bars before he could leave.
The same bird who takes a grave wing injury, but can then all of a sudden fly impeded carrying an incredibly heavy rope.
Allowing two sea rats that everyone obviously concludes ARE sea rats into Redwall AND letting one cook everyone food while the other spends extended time alone with children.
. . geez. I could go on and on, as almost every couple chapters had something ridiculous, but you get the point.
It was hard to enjoy without rolling my eyes and making fun of it,

My favorite character was Blaggut, the sea rat with a heart, I wish he had more of a part to play in the book or in future books as he seemed unique, but it seemed like he was put to bed as a boat builder at the end.
Hopefully he turns up again,

If this wasn't written by Jacques, I'd have rated it lower, but I really enjoy his world and many of his characters.
I especially love his descriptions of food and celebrations, But this book I liked least out of the first seven, I'll continue reading though, as I think they'll get better,./December means time to get nostalgic with another Redwall book or two, The Bellmaker is theth novel in the franchise, While it's not amazing it is good and fun and serves my purposes of reminiscing on reading the series when I was younger.
This was my first reading of The Bellmaker, I originally thought it was going to be a prequel to Mariel of Redwall but it's a sequel that takes place a couple years after the events of that book.


The book may be called The Bellmaker but I don't even consider Joseph the Bellmaker to be the lead character.
There are just so many characters this time around with a lot of different points of view, Probably too many actually as the book is kind of bouncing all over the place, Oddly enough the POV of Blaggut the ship rat I felt was pretty unnecessary to the story but found that he was still my favorite character in the novel.
Probably because he's a change of pace from the baddies of the previous books,

The novels do seem to be maturing a little, They are a little more violent anyway, Though I would not say excessively so,

Redwall gets a little too into their "prophecies" though, A prophecy leads Joseph to leave Redwall with a group of adventures to join up with his daughter Mariel and friend Dandin.
They are off adventuring and become pivotal players in retaking Castle Floret whose king was had it taken by the evil fox Urgan Nagru and his mate Silvamord.
As Redwall baddies go they weren't my favorite but they were ok,

So the novel bounces between all of these characters and it feels a little flighty because of it and the tying of everything together at the end just feels a little too prophetic and convenient.
Still fun enough and I still want to try and make it through allof these novels at some point.
A few a year is plenty though otherwise you'll burn out on them,

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