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The characters are too often mere stereotypes. Hulver is the wise older mentor. Rose is the selfless healer. Medlar is an eastern martial arts master. It's okay to have some stereotypes in a strongly plot driven book, but this one isn't strong enough to keep you from noticing that so many characters have little to no depth. And the rape/incest scene that we get is a step too far. These parts of the book made me feel deeply uncomfortable and lead me to believe I would never want to re-read, however entertaining other parts of the book are. Basically, think a more anthropomorphic Watership Down, but with moles and even more Nightmare Fuel.

Villainous Crush: Rune has a rather creepy obsession with young Rebecca. And it's implied that he still lusts after her when they both have reached old age. William Horwood has also continued the “Wind in the Willows” series and composed some more stories for readers to enjoy. He wrote a memoir that has a fictionalized element to it that was released in August of 2004. It is titled “Boy With No Shoes” and the novel was published to positive reception. The memoir from Wililam goes over themes of his own Kent childhood and some of the challenges found therein. This novel is all over the place regarding pacing. When Horwood is concentrating on the goings on in the Duncton system, describing the moles and their daily lives, he is at his strongest. These parts of the book fly by and I am never less than interested in what is happening to Mekkins and Rose and the Pasture moles. All that being said however, Duncton wood was still William Horwood's first novel, and as such, while still an astounding work, has a number of rough edges when compared to the other books of the series. The Dragon: Mandrake, as he starts losing his mind and Rune starts taking over. Then briefly Nightshade, some sort of mole witch from the East. She's damn creepy, that's fore sure.

Fun with Foreign Languages: Siabod is practically Welsh. You can actually translate some parts of the book in Siabod, actually. Duncton Wood' is a book I well remember coming out and about which I was a little scathing at the time. Just another Watership Down rip-off, I believe I said - and there's some truth in that accusation, but only in the sense that any novel with anthropomorphic animals set in the English countryside and in which humanity plays only a tangential role is published in the long shadow of Richard Adam's masterpiece. But Duncton Wood is more than just a re-tread of old ground, and its influences are wider too. Fittingly for the author of several splendid sequels to 'Wind in the Willows', this book - like them - is tinged throughout by a form of mystical, pagan religion as well as being a love story, an action adventure novel and treatise on the common mole. William Horwood is the writer of the Duncton Chronicles. The series is also known as the ‘Book of Silence’, referring to the second series that makes up the Duncton world. The fictional line of novels first became available for readers to enjoy in 1980. Even the consensual sex scenes I found extremely creepy; I mean, who really wants to read raunchy sex scenes about moles shagging? Bloody weirdos, that’s who.

Duncton Wood and its sequels have as its protagonists anthropomorphic moles living in Moledom, a community in Great Britain. [1] Moledom has its own social organization, history, and written language. The moles do not otherwise make use of technology or clothing. The only thing this book has in common with the first two books is that it features anthropomorphic animals but it contains none of the whimsy or sweetness of ...Willows and if you’re one of those people who can’t help but well up when you hear Bright Eyes then this book will have you reaching for the cheap whiskey and razorblades.

Publication Order of The Wolves of Time Books

Action Girl: Rebecca, who right from start is described as being "too big for a female", and is as capable of bringing bad guys down as she is of having emotional dilemmas. Also, she ultimately survived the fate of Mandrake's mother.



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