An amusing Mouse with Swords book, Redwall is well written but clearly pitched at younger readers. I enjoyed it in general, but found that the straightforward plot and excessive praise for Mattias. Several points amused me as an older reader… where the simplistic charm of the series fell too far short of my expectations.
This would all be easily solved by reading the book earlier. It’d make a good book to give less proficient readers.
The nature of the animal societies is quirky and hard to nail down– very much a humans in furry skin, with some elements altered to fit the reduced size, while others remain proportioned as in our world. It’s also semi-medieval, but has a number of other elements that are out of time. In the end, it’s probably best not to concentrate on the details and investigate them for consistency, but just to enjoy the yarn for a good tale told around a campfire.