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A review by popcorndiva
Salamandastron by Brian Jacques
4.0
4 Stars
The books in this series continue to be wonderful, even if they are very formulaic. I think spacing out reading the next book in the series has been helping keep the books feeling magical and not being burnt out on the similar patterns between them.
As always, I loved the story and the characters. The only thing keeping this from being 5 stars is the lack of the emotional connection to characters. With some of the earlier books, we got several good chapters on each character's normal life before the major events of the book began. This book sort of skipped over that, so we went right into the action. While I love the action, I missed getting to see the characters just be themselves and living their lives a little bit before they were sent on life changing quests.
The books in this series continue to be wonderful, even if they are very formulaic. I think spacing out reading the next book in the series has been helping keep the books feeling magical and not being burnt out on the similar patterns between them.
As always, I loved the story and the characters. The only thing keeping this from being 5 stars is the lack of the emotional connection to characters. With some of the earlier books, we got several good chapters on each character's normal life before the major events of the book began. This book sort of skipped over that, so we went right into the action. While I love the action, I missed getting to see the characters just be themselves and living their lives a little bit before they were sent on life changing quests.