Siege of White Deer Park: Farthing Wood Series, #5

by Colin Dann

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099447606
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Red Fox
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 0.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

The Siege of White Deer Park

The fifth Animals of Farthing Wood book kicks off without preamble, introducing a deadly new addition to White Deer Park. The Farthing Wood refugees are now older and less hardy than the days of their now legendary travels, and many of the smaller, short-lived creatures have sadly perished. When the silent, invisible predator begins to threaten their well-being, even the leader Fox suggests that maybe they should remain in their corner of the park and leave the Beast to its own devices. Soon however the undetectable intruder beings to lay siege on all the inhabitants of the park, including the White Deer themselves, and the animals must decide to either make their move or become paralysed with fear. Dann's sparse writing style gives a great edge to the narrative, providing a succinct series of images to each of the scenes and lend every character a solid description that allows the story to flow visually in the reader's mind. At times he loses some of the grace that he established in earlier volumes of the series and approaches a kind of dry, clear text that whilst skilful and clear, doesn't serve the story as well as it might have. Similarly the wily predator suffers from distinct lack of character, serving more as a presence that affects the others, its absence its only true character. I won't give any story details away, but there are occasions when more could be made of the Beast as an individual character, and as a book of only 150 or so pages, about 25 less than most of the others, there is certainly room for this. These are only minor problems in a manuscript that has all the charm and character of the previous instalments. The development of the older Farthing Wood characters - Badger and Adder in particular - is superb, compelling and even emotive. The story is fast-flowing and intriguing, as well as urging the reader to continue by clever use of chapter breaks and change of perspective. A smooth, fast read with a great premise; it's amazing that the series hasn't yet begun to flag after five books. 7.5 / 10

Intresting

This book is one of the Farthing Wood series and is the fourth book. This is the fourth book and is not the best one but is quite good and it does leave you guessing about the storyline. This one is about a mysterious hunter whichis attacking the creatures of the park but they do not know what the hunter is so they set up a guards who are Tawny Owl an Whisteler. Will the animals find out what the hunter is and what it wants.