A review by semperlunaris
Loamhedge by Brian Jacques

4.0

I let a friend borrow this one in primary school and I never got it back. I wouldn't have minded, only she didn't even like Jacques' writing style so...? Luckily, I also had the audiobook version too so it wasn't like I was going to miss out re-reading!

This was another one that I enjoyed but I was left wanting to know more about the mysterious Loamhedge and how they lived before they left and made Redwall (I think this might have made a good story considering there's a 'sort of' chronology that (at least in the early days) we'd flip-flop around in. I also wasn't fond of how Martha
Spoiler just *magically* could walk because plot needed it to be so (surely her legs would have atrophied after life in a wheelchair or was Martin the Warrior secretly moonlighting as a physiotherapist?) I'd have even accepted 'it's a divine miracle' at a pinch, but it would've been nice to have more of a journey there.


Overall it is still quite an enjoyable one with some great poems, riddles, songs, and characters to transport you to another world.