As the title suggests, this is another of Brian Jacques' Redwall books. This story revolves around one small but ferocious mouse, Mariel. Mariel and her father, Joseph, are captured and tortured by the evil searat Gabool. After he throws Mariel to the ocean, leaving her for dead, she washes up on the shore near Redwall Abbey. With the help of the residents there, and the spirit of Martin the Warrior, Mariel begins a quest to defeat Gabool and rescue her father.

As far as Redwall novels go this is right up there with the best. Of course, I can only take so much Redwall in one sitting. After a couple hundred pages of "some uh th'urdest eed'in uh wurdz n' thungs" I get kinda tired of if. The plot itself is not all that stunning either. But it's light reading and fairly cute. Enough to keep me reading more Redwall books -- just as long as I have a long break between them.

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