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A review by kitsuneheart
Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border by Jeff Smith
4.0
One of the weaker, but still important books in this series. We follow Smiley Bone and Fone Bone as they try to return the baby rat creature, Bartleby, to his rat creature family. Almost immediately, however, they meed the proud and powerful Roque Ja, a mountain lion who controls the hills about the valley. Who happens to hate rat creatures, dragons, and pretty much anything which doesn't prove itself powerful. For power is good.
This story is more of an excuse to get out and find some little details about the valley we wouldn't have encountered at the farm or the village, and that's fine. It just feels like it should have been rolled with the next storyline into one larger book, rather than having a little book of its own. It's not all the interesting, and I'd honestly say I'd skip it on subsequent readings. It's just...meh. Necessary to read once, but it doesn't demand more.
This story is more of an excuse to get out and find some little details about the valley we wouldn't have encountered at the farm or the village, and that's fine. It just feels like it should have been rolled with the next storyline into one larger book, rather than having a little book of its own. It's not all the interesting, and I'd honestly say I'd skip it on subsequent readings. It's just...meh. Necessary to read once, but it doesn't demand more.