User blog comment:Ferretmaiden/The Sable Quean Lame?/@comment-1421927-20100607230743

I really don't think that the badger girl was necessary; he introduces a main character and the end of the book? Really? That would be like having Martin introduced 50 pages from the end of Mossflower and him still killing Tsarmina. It's weird.

I really think Buckler should have killed Vilaya. He didn't really kill any main villains in the book, even though he is supposedly a great battler and a hero. So why didn't Vilaya die at his sword? To make things less predictable, perhaps? Although I, for one, don't mind things being a bit predictable. Not overly so, but everything doesn't have to be a surprise.

This was also they first Redwall book where I didn't cry at the semi-main-character dying upon reading the book for the first time. Actually, I remember waiting for somebody to die AFTER Flandor did.

Didn't hate the book by any means; I liked it a lot actually, but some things could have been improved.