Utterly Mad

I read a lot. My favorite books are the Redwall books, all 24ish of them. Good world, food descriptions, funny characters, goofy moments and stereotypes, incredibly graphic violence and death, no aversion to killing and maiming central characters (one book had a badger lord be blinded and crippled in battle, the main character suffer permanent leg damage, the villain being BLUDGEONED TO DEATH WITH ONE OF HIS OWN SOLDIERS, and a really sad Squirrel death.). Combine that with a series of neat callbacks and mythology, and you have a children's book series that is far better than woodland animals living in a red building has any right to be. Oh, and yeah, this is sold as a children's book series.....