I get a sense in these books of James Michener for some reason. There’s something about Adams’ style, though, that feels almost anti-fantasy, starring animals as animals, naked and living by instinct yet with consciousness and personalities… like real animals. I’m also not a fan of the more fanciful styles, like Brian Jacques’ Redwall series, a well-written tale for sure, just not to my taste. I don’t like the simplistic animal-characters-in-a-human-world structures of some popular books, like The Wind in the Willows or the lesser-known Bird Life in Wington. I’m not normally interested in animal stories. This story about two dogs and a fox on the run in the British countryside was a satisfying answer to that hankering. It’s been a few years since I read Watership Down by Richard Adams, but recently had a hankering for another epic adventure in the style of that bunnies’ tale.
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