Today, I finished the book RedWall. Overall, I didn't like this book. The battle between the RedWall citizens and Cluny the Scourge seemed extremely unfair. Cluny never succeeded in defeating the RedWall citizens until the very end, where he eventually died. There was no suspense at all, so as a reader, I wasn't very entertained.
Although the story was toward its finish, Matthias made more friends. While on his quest, Matthias became friends with some querulous creatures called Shrews. They were like mice, but were weird looking. They always argued with each other, and Matthias was often annoyed because of that. With the Shrew's help, he found out where he could find the long lost sword which was stolen by a giant viper. While searching for the whereabouts of the viper, he became friends with an owl named Captain Snow, and a cat. With their help, Matthias was able to kill the viper, and retrieve the lost sword.
While this was taking place, Cluny sent a spy inside RedWall, and made him open the gate door while all of the city's citizens were sleeping. Everyone seemed to be helpless under the captive of Cluny's horde. Matthias, the only warrior of RedWall who still had liberty gathered up all of his friends (shrews, sparrows, owl, cat) and killed all of the enemy mercilessly. Cluny was killed, and Matthias was greatly honored. RedWall was victorious.
In the beginning, I planned to finish the entire series. However, after finishing the first novel, I don't think I want to read a book by Brian Jacques again. Although the vocabulary and sentence structure was higher than the level of an elementry student, the plot was very childish.
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