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