Mattimeo by: Brian Jacques Reviewed by: Sloan

Mattimeo is a sequel to Redwall.  Mattimeo is about an abbey called Redwall.  In this abbey there are mice, otters, moles, Bank voles and a badger.  In the beginning of the book some of the abbey’s young ones get kidnapped by a slaver named Slagar and his band disguiseas a circus. The abbey’s warrior named Matthias, goes out with some friends Basil Stag Hare and Jess Squirrel to hunt out the slaver and get Matthias’s son and Jess’s son back.  Matthias also goes to get Tim and Tess Churchmouse because one of there parents was injured and the other one had to look after him.  On the journey they meet two others whose son and daughter are kidnapped, Orlando the Axe and Jabez Stump, Orlando is a Badger and Jabez is a hedgehog. Meanwhile Mattimeo and his friends are making friends with Auma Orlando’s daughter and Jube Jabez’s son while trying to make an escape plan.  So finally Mattimeo and his friends escape, but when Slagar finds out he sends his band to find look for them.  They don’t find them but Slagar does what happens next, you find out.                                                  There are tons and tons of strength’s in this book.  Some of them are the cliff hanger’s and the suspense also all the action, for instance  at one point of the book Matthias and his crew are stuck in a cave and air is running low then there able to make a hole just enough so they can see. Then they see some other animals, so they call to them, luckily  it is the Guosim, or shrews, old friends of Matthias. They get out of the cave because the Guosim dig them out.  I don’t think this book has many weaknesses.                                                                                   One of my favorite passages is this one: “Mattimeo had seen so many rats”.  They swarmed through the bushes, trees and hillocks of the far shore, efficient and silent. I think that sentence really describes the surroundings and where the rats are.”  This sentence is like many descriptive sentences in the book,  creating a real picture in my mind. I think this book is for readers from 4th grade to 8th  grade.  I highly recommend this book because of all the action and suspense in it. Readers who like action with bad and good sides would like this book. If you only like one of those three things you would still like it, but I think you would like it even if you like none those things I really  recommend this book to all.

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