=============Original review=============This was most extremely excellent and I'm writing this [review] on a little, tiny digital keyboard and the temperature is relatively very hot today, so I think I'll finish my review right now, what?

I've reread this particular Redwall tale several times, partly because it was always lying around in my fifth grade classroom and partly because of the distinction of a female otter warrior as the main character (or as one of the main characters, as Jacques can never stick to just one). Grath is always strong on my heart, second to Bragoon of course, and I'm glad Jacques decided to introduce another strong female. He's great at females strong in personality (sassy hedgehogs especially), which is...

Brian Jacques seems to write from a neverending well of beautiful language and grand, enrapturing themes that take a simple idea and enlarge it on such a breathtakingly big scale that it becomes something emotionally powerful and absolutely unforgettable. Not since the fourth Redwall book, Mattimeo, have we seen a story that takes place as chronologically late as Pearls of Lutra. The famed Redwall warriors Matthias and Mattimeo have gone to the gates of the Dark Forrest by now, but Mattimeo's br...

Brian Jaques does it again, the man knows how to make a intriguing story, dramatic and sad. This focuses on a angry psychotic emperor of a tropical island who send his minions to kill a tribe of otters for "The tears" five perfect rose pearls that he wants for his crown. While a lone surviver of the attack tracks vermin scum In need for revenge, while young redwallers follow The Ancients riddles in how to find these pearls, while the poor Abbot is taken by the Mad Emperors Monitor General in rea...

Brian Jacques must surely run out of ideas, but fortunately,he'll never run out of stories :D

This is one of my favourite books in the canon, partly because the different storylines (Grath's revenge, rescuing the abbot and the riddles) fit together so neatly. This avoids the widely diverging storylines that plague some of the other books in the series. There is a lot to like in this book. The first thing is that most of the heroes (Martin, Clecky, Grath and the shrews) are not young warriors setting out for the first time but seasoned veterans. This gave the book a stable feel and also m...

"I would have enjoyed a story about Grath Longfletch, the main character who is introduced at the beginning of the book and was then promptly forgotten about. I also would have enjoyed a story about Redwallers solving riddles for an important cause instead of Redwallers bumbling into the answers through sheer coincidence and then throwing the prize into the ocean. Everybody was jerks, even the good guys. Why was everybody a jerk? This book could have been a lot better, but it wasn't."

A fun elementary chapter book series of good versus evil

Ublaz Mad Eyes, the evil ruler of the island called Sampetra, is on a mission to find the Tears of All Oceans. Meanwhile, Grath Longfletch sets out on a journey to seek vengeance for the murder of her otter tribe and family, and joins forces with Martin (Mattimeo's son) and other friends of Redwall who are in search of Abbott Durral and a young bankvole maid who were captured by Ublaz's evil followers. Back at Redwall, Tansy and her friends follow clues to find the six rose colored pearls known

I’m reading the Redwall books to my daughter at bedtime and I’d say this isn’t anywhere near the strongest in the series so far but I’m sure it will satisfy anyone who enjoyed those that came before. It’s about pirates and has some of the fun riddles that you see a lot of in earlier books.

This is one of the best Redwall books that I've read yet. I enjoyed reading about the quest that Fermald left behind for Tansy, Rollo, Piknim, Craklyn, Arven, and others to follow. The friendship between Grath - an otter bent on seeking revenge - and Inbar - another otter who knew no warfare - was nice to read about, and I hope that Grath found peace after she moved with Inbar back to his holt. And, of course, the character Romsca was dear to my heart - how her cruel corsair heart softened and b...

I have yet to find a Brian Jacques book I didn't adore. His books are full of adventure, friendship, good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, humor, song, riddles, and characters we fall in love with. I can read any Redwall book to any age person and it's rare they won't get caught up in the stories. My dad loved them as much as my little grandson. The Pearls of Lutra was full of riddles, corsairs, an evil pine marten, dream visits from Martin the Warrior mouse, an otter on a mission, Dibbuns creating ch...

Any lover of Brian Jacques Redwall stories will love this book...written in his particularly descriptive and humorous style...you can 'hear' the characters speak as you read the text...great stuff for chilling out to whatever age you are!

Finally finished. Too many characters, too many plot lines, to many settings, too many deus ex machinas... just overall too convoluted AND predictable at the same time. In the end I didn't care about anyone or anything anymore.

The best of all the Redwall books. It is the treasure of the series & Brian Jacques outdid himself with the magic & adventure found within its pages.

If you get to this point in the Redwall books, you know the formula. There will be feasts! Riddles! Evil pirate rats! Plucky woodland heroes! Strange undertones of race theory and absolutely no attention to actual mustelid behavior! Did anyone ever bother to tell Brian Jacques that otters and badgers are also mustelids like ferrets and prey on mice? Apparently not!Ahem. For a later Redwall book, only half-trying with the formula, this one works well. There's a fun heist with the pearls and a con...

This was a fun, feel-good, family-friendly fantasy that took me back to my childhood and gave me nice, warm-fuzzies upon finishing. It's not a hard or complex read, but it certainly is fun.Brian Jacques will always live in my heart as the author that first inspired me to start writing. His book, Redwall (which begins the series in which Pearls of Lutra takes place), was a source of endless excitement and adventure for my middle school mind. Now, decades later, I have finally found my way back to...

Not a bad entry, but very busy and with a surfeit of tedious characters. Clecky needed to fall into a hole of editorial excision and never return, and the "cute" trio of Dibbuns was obnoxious. All four characters were a waste of paper that could have been better devoted to exploring Romsca, the ferret corsair with a conscience who protected Father Abbot Durral. Jacques has never been nuanced in his portrayal and examination of nature versus nurture and good versus evil, and this could have been

Just like just about any other Redwall book written that I have read, Pearls of Lutra is another fine example to the solidness of Brian Jacques' storytelling or the wonderful images and stories presented to us in the Redwall universe.If you like otters, you should enjoy this book. You also get to learn some neat things about their culture, or even more about other cool stuff in the Redwall world.

This book was personally my favorite book in the Redwall series (that I've read lol) but I really like that the series is REALLY LONG! I tried listening to the first book on audio book, but it was, like, 10 HOURS LONG!!!!! So then I just read the second book. But back to this particular book, I really like the character Grath, because she is so tough and has been through so much. I also like how she finally finds her species. This is a great book!!!

Amazing book full of adventure and comedy This is one of my favorite book series and I definitely think thatBrian Jacques has created a truly amazing and wonderful worldto believe in I mean I practically am in mossflower country when I read this.I definitely think that Mattimeo is my favorite book in the series But this book was so amazing.

One of the best instalments in Brian Jacques's series. The element of riddles and the treasure hunt for the pearls were so interesting. It's very cool to see Martin II son of Mattimeo son of Matthias. He's a great character and a noble warrior. Tansy carries the book for me. Brave, loyal and sensible, the little hedgehog is a great addition to the cast.

This is one of my favorite Redwall books, and trust me, I have a lot! This about a sea otter bent on getting revenge on her family's killers. Holt Lutraaaaaa!!!!!!

It was very adventurous! I liked the riddles that they had to solve!

After "The Bellmaker" and "Outcast Of Redwall", I was very much looking forward to the first sequel to "Redwall" since "Mattimeo". First, the good. Similar to the previous two installments, I appreciated that there was more focus in the novel. Having too many storylines makes for an unnecessarily difficult read in my opinion, and it also tends to take away from the depth of the storylines in general. In "Pearls Of Lutra", although there are multiple storylines, they start intertwining early on w...

This book is sooooo amazing!! The (most of them) characters are humorous and intellectual, and some eat like there's no tomorrow (If you've read the book, you know what I mean) The riddles in this story are fun to try to solve, (if you want to,) and they're difficult too, unlike some books where there is a riddle that's super easy and they spend the WHOLE BOOK trying to find out the answer, while you knew the answer from the first chapter. This book is definitely not a fluff/dessert book, it's a...

Pearls of Lutra occurs chronologically in the Redwall timeline after Mattimeo, with the son of that book’s eponymous protagonist and Tess Churchmouse, Martin, being Redwall’s Warrior, with his parents having since passed on. The primary plotline focuses on the titular MacGuffins, the titular pearls known officially as the Tears of All Oceans, with the chief adversary, the pine marten Ublaz Mad Eyes, Emperor of the Isle of Sampetra, wanting to get his paws on them. Rollo the bankvole is the Recor...

Yet another great tale from the redwall series, this the 10th redwall book I've read now, so I'm roughly halfway through the series. While I'm still enjoying every aspect of the books, I'm finding that they are beginning to wane on me slightly. Everytime the books introduce a new element or some sort of twist I find myself really intrigued and eager to read more but when they maintain the rigid formula of good vs evil, good always wins, it's still entertaining but somewhat lackluster. The riddle...

the good:-riddles you can kind of follow along with that go all over the abbey! yey-fooooood. there's a scene in this book in which animals are tasked with providing opinions on cheese and drink pairings. god i wish that was me. also hotroot & watershrimp soup sounds so good. even these animals on a godforsaken ocean voyage eat well-Clecky and Gerul. they are good.the meh:-as I was suggested to do, I did skim all of the enemy-animal sections when they didn't directly involve a "good guy". this h...

This was my least favorite redwall book by far. I'm not sure how it's earned a 4 average. The beginning is very strong, but it quickly goes downhill. The plot is mainly divided between two pirates fighting against each other, a group on a rescue mission, and a group of Red Wallers hunting for pearls. None of the plot lines actually result in anything useful. The pearl hunt is incredibly bland, and the characters essentially bumble their way through by chance, solving riddles that are near useles...