The Rogue Crew
By Brian Jacques
All Redwall books including this one are set in a fantasy universe, and most of them involve a lot of travel, so there really is no set location for the book. As for the time frame I’m going to guess this book is set after all the others, as there was no mention of an alliance between the Rogue crew and the Salamandastron hares in the previous books.
My favorite character would probably be Swifto a young otter, son of Skor Axehound. I liked his youthfulness and playful attitude. Despite his father being the leader of a group of warriors he had a peaceful nature. Sadly, he was killed by vermin.
My second favorite character is Captain Rake Nightfur, a black hare. Unlike most hares he had a Scottish, not a British accent, and he wielded two claymores. Plus as I’ve already mentioned he had a black fur, and anything with black fur or hair is raised up a notch in my book.
My favorite villain would be Shekra the vixen. She was a fox, which is my favorite type of Redwall villain, and she manipulated things for her own purposes. I like sneaky villains.
I’m not sure about the a least favorite character. They all seemed to be very well built and each had some trait I liked about them, so I guess I don’t have a least favorite character.
The Redwall series is very black and white. All the vermin are evil and all the mice, hedgehogs, otters, badgers, hares, etc are good. The main lesson always seems to be good triumphing over evil.
I did like this book though I felt it wasn’t as satisfying as the others in the Redwall series. Probably because the epilogue, unlike most of the other books, didn’t skip forward in time. I liked seeing what the younger characters grew up to be.
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