User blog comment:Ferretmaiden/The Sable Quean Lame?/@comment-1988904-20100519165202

I liked the Sable Quean. It was neat how it was split into four parts rather than three. But I feel like it could have been a lot better. There was so much going on that the ending seemed a bit rushed.

Brian Jacques is SOOO creative, and I loved all the new characters he developed and the interesting plot and villain. But I think he could have done better. He introduced too many cool new characters so he didn't have enough time or space to develop them.

A blademaster hare that doesn't talk like a hare? Awesome! But Buckler -- GREAT NAME!!! -- even with his neat backstory and everything let me down a bit.

Zwilt the Shade? Awesome! Vilaya? Awesome! Great villains but anticlimatic deaths. However I was a bit creeped out when I was reading it becuase they reminded me a great deal of two of my villains that I wrote before I read the book -- Zigor the black fox and Vermilion the pine marten. An eerie coincidence. Brian Jacques and I were on the same wavelength! Awesome!

A mole warrior toting around a war hammer? Awesome! Though with all the other warriors around, Axtel didn't get too much attention, just helping save some of the young 'uns.

A Badgermaid bent on revenge? Awesome! Although Ambrevina fleshed out Flangor's backstory and added a sad bit of irony, that's all she really did. Well that and chase down Vilaya at the end. I was hoping for an epic Villaness vs Badgerlady showdown, but it never happened.

Buckler and Diggs, reminded me much too much of Tam and Doogy -- I even had to look up Diggs' name because he reminded me too much. I was so looking forward to a hare blademaster and sidekick, being one myself, but I was a little disappointed.

So in conclusion: really neat characters that merited more attention and development.