In addition to being a deft musician, Janglur is also a cunning warrior. The Marlfoxes, brothers and sisters named Ascrod and Vannan, hear the melodious wonder wafting through the air and decide that they must retrieve this talent for their wicked Queen Silth, a tyrannical ruler who constantly nags her underlings that she must constantly be "surrounded by beauty." The visitors are Marlfoxes, vicious ax-wielding vermin who many believe possess magical powers, while others discount them as only the stuff of legend. When Janglur, the father of the family and an ace with the woodpipe, coaxes his lovely daughter Songbreeze to sing with him a tune, two savage beasts are - without the Swifteyes' knowledge - an attentive audience. Marlfox begins when the Swifteyes, a family of traveling squirrels, stop to take a break. This reviewer had never read Jacques prior to Marlfox and enjoyed it whole-heartedly. Each Redwall is a freestanding adventure. Even though Marlfox is the 11th Redwall volume, don't shy away from Jacques's latest simply because you haven't read him before. Marlfox, the 11th delightful volume in the Redwall series, is certainly no exception.īefore continuing, let me make something perfectly clear. The language is vibrant, the characters are extremely well developed, and the action is brisk and exciting. Writing these frothy adventures is something that Jacques simply enjoys to do, and it shows. Never in a million years did he dream that his stories would reach an audience of millions.
According to a Wall Street Journal article (April 9, 1998), Jacques would read his unpublished Redwall stories to a group of children at a local school for the blind.
A onetime longshoreman from Liverpool, Jacques never intended for his adventures to be published.
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