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Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood

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kateponders's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

4.0

chloewiart's review against another edition

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funny tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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5.0

Redwall crossed with Watership Down with a smidgeon of Tolkein- exciting new animal adventure saga

This only appeared on my radar after recently winning some children's book awards. I like to keep abreast of the award winners and it's a genre that I don't read much of.

With bookends set on a dark winters' evening, a storyteller tells young rabbits an origin tale of their hero, Podkin, before he became the warrior rabbit they all know.

Interrupted occasionally by the storyteller and his young listeners, we then hear the story of how Podkin lost his ear, and how he and his brother and sister fled a massacre and attempted to keep an ancient treasure safe from an evil group of rabbits who are slaying and enslaving all the innocent animals in their path.

Great adventure story, fast moving, with likeable characters (Podkin grows from an immature, ignorant young rabbit to a brave and quick-thinking leader, his sister is a wonderful role model). It would make a great TV series, with lots of locations and minor characters, fights, escapes.

It could have gone on longer, in my opinion. I wanted it to be Redwall, and hope the author sets more stories in the world of the rabbits.

One for ages 8-13. While rabbits do die in this, there is nothing graphic or overly disturbing, mild threats only.