A Modest Construct

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№43
Title: Martin the Warrior [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1994
Pages: 384
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior marks something of a turning point for the Redwall series: Jacques, for the first time, seems [...]

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№39
Title: Salamandastron [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1993
Pages: 400
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mariel of Redwall
Continuing a theme that’s been developing for a number of books now, Jacques takes parallel narratives to extremes in this [...]

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№36
Title: Mariel of Redwall [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1992
Pages: 400
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mattimeo
One thing I’ve noticed about Brian Jacques is that he’s not afraid of strong female characters, and in fact Mariel [...]

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№34
Title: Mattimeo [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1990
Pages: 448
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Mossflower
In the early days of the Redwall series, it was common for Jacques to reuse some characters; though he tended to [...]

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№33
Title: Mossflower [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1988
Pages: 432
It may behoove you to read the previous book in this series, Redwall
Mossflower, technically the second book in the Redwall series, serves as a prequel to the eponymous book, and is one of the [...]

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№32
Title: Redwall [$]
Author: Brian Jacques
Publisher: Philomel
Year: 1987
Pages: 352
I was first introduced to the Redwall series by my brother, who was intellectually an early bloomer than I, both by dint of his elder status and, I suspect, a more genuine intellect. [...]

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№29
Title: Eldest [$]
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Knopf Books
Year: 2005
Pages: 704
You may be interested to read my review of the previous book in this series, Eragon
Despite an essentially mediocre start with Eragon, I decided out of sheer petulance to read the next book [...]

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№27
Title: Eragon [$]
Author: Christopher Paolini
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Year: 2004
Pages: 768
I hadn’t had any real intention of reading Eragon before a couple of weeks ago: the charges leveled at it (that it’s was a mishmash of preexisting works by Tolkien and McCaffrey, [...]

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