Editorial Review
Enslaved by the evil ferret King Agarno and his daughter, Princess Kurda—slavers who have shackled hundreds—the brave squirrelmaid Triss, along with Shogg the otter and Welfo the hedgehog, plans a daring escape by sea. In her flights, Triss happens upon Redwall, and the abbey creatures discover a new hero in her. Someone brave enough to carry the sword of Martin and face the evil that threatens them . . .
“Scrumptious feasts, rollicking humor, swashbuckling heroes, faithful friends, and treacherous villains magically combine through three intertwined action-packed plots into one unforgettable, spellbinding story.”
—VOYA
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Customer Reviews
Another good Jacques novel 
2006-07-19
People who complain about the book being much like the others seem to think that Jacques owes it to them to write increasingly more complicated books for them as they get older and more mature. The books stay the same, it's how Jacques writes, and it's what he writes.
Triss is a good representation of many of the books in the Redwall series. It is a fantastic book for young children, and one that anyone can enjoy as long as they are okay with good and evil being black and white concepts. The book itself is quite entertaining, has a good moral, and is perfect for young children.
WOW!! 
2005-05-09
This book is a great book that includes multiple storylines. The story starts out with Triss, Welfo, and Shogg, three slaves who escape from the royal pure ferret's island. Meanwhile at Salamandastron, Sagax, a badger prince, and Scarum, a gluttonous hare, are tired of being cooped up and decide to go on an adventure with Kroova, the otter. On the ferret island Freebooters have arrived. The pure ferret king, Agarnu, comes to an agreement with them resulting in the Freeebooters and Kurda going to capture the escaped slaves and take over Redwall Abbey. In the abbey two abbeybabes, Ruggum and Bikkle, turn up missing and are later found by the ancient Brockhall. They are terrified out of their heads about a three-headed monster inside the once-great city. Can the Abbey fight off the invading horde of vermin and destroy whatever is hiding in the dark depths of Brockhall? This book has amazing amounts of details. And with a great blend of storytelling, dialogue, word choice, and songs, I couldn't put it down. You should definitely pick this up.
Triss sucks!!! 
2005-05-06
I thought Triss wasn't that good. It's about a little mouse named Triss. where I started they were saving the princess. they have to save redwall. It's really stupid. It's really dumb and confusing.
Triss rocks! 2005-03-04
This was a great book. It's filled with excitement and murder.
I would recommend this book to anyone. Also, anyone who hasn't seen the TV show has to read this book. I really want
the book to be read!
Redwall needs to end 
2005-02-23
I started reading the Redwall books when I was in fifth grade, with Mossflower, Redwall, and Mattimeo, the good old originals. I fell in love with them and own all of them except for Loamhedge and Rakkety Tam, which I might not read. As a high schooler I still read them for kicks when they come of in paperback, because for the most part they are an amusing, quick read. But Triss proves that Redwall most definitely needs to end . . . NOW. Jaques needs to write something new, or a new Redwall with a twist no one in their right mind would expect.
This book is a template of all the other Redwall books, so it reads like a stripped hinge. The good guys are bothersome and righteous, as always, and the bad guys are typical and underdeveloped, as always. I find these fumbling villans halfway sympathetic, but as in all Redwall books, they all inevitably die. Jaques no longer writes with the charm and appeal of the older books that I fell in love with. Triss is tiresome and completely recycled. The only aspect I found amusing was the phonetic spelling of the germanic accent of the head hauncho villans, a royal family of albino nordic ferrets, which in itself is pretty funny. Otherwise, I don't think the book is worth buying, even in paperback.
At this point, I feel that Brian Jacques has pretty much murdered his own series by exhausting and turning some interesting situations, like in Taggerung and Outcast of Redwall, where you have good-evil crossover, into thouroughly crummy books. He needs to create a new series that takes place in the same world, but that covers an entirely different time period of a different place, like Loamhedge during its height. Or perhaps he should write about a totally different abby in the north, Greenhenge or something, that is not run my mice and such but by foxes and weasels. That would interesting, because it might blur Jacques' enormously fat line between good and evil.
A Beautiful Tale 2007-03-29
I gave Triss five stars because I really enjoyed it. I loved the poems and songs, especially how they help the charactors of the story. I also enjoyed the fact that all of the charactors in the story were animals. I like how the dialogue really went along with characters,and every animal has its own accent and uses different choices of words. I really found the story very intersting. It had some adventure (which I liked) but mainly dialogue and description. One thing I found most amazing was that at the beginning of every chapter the author makes a beautiful description of the setting. I really enjoyed the story and I hope many people do too.
Flippin' great, wot! 2007-03-29
Great stuff, wot! I really enjoy the way that Jacques uses dialogue and poetry in his stories. I can almost hear the medieval music playing in the background. Triss is an excellent protagonist. It's great to see a female hero for a change, especially one with such a driving desire to do justice and set wrongs to right. Sagyx, Scarum, the dibbuns, and even the "baddies" in this tale send me far away from the drudgery of everyday life. Keep up the great stuff Mr. Jacques, I'll gladly return to Mossflower Woods for as long as you can take me there! Redwall!!! Eulalia!! Logalog!!!
great series 2006-10-18
Great series for young and old looking for a mental shut-down for bed book.
A great book, one of the the best! 2006-10-12
This book started out a little slow but, the more you read the better it gets. It was a great book Wot Wot! It starts out in Riftgaurd, an evil fortress ruled by Ferrets. Triss (Trisscar), the squirrel, and two of her friends, are escape slaves. Princess Kurda
and Prince Bladd are determined to capture them.
In Redwall the dibbons (toddlers) are out of control when two escape into the woods! Find out what surprise is in store in Mossflower.
This book was exciting and fun, another great book by Brian Jacques. I recommend this book to you. (I suggest you read the first one before you read this) Don't forget the other Redwall books these are good books also!
Feels like a failed experiment: not bad, but not worth reading or memorable. Not recommended. 
2006-08-01
The fifteenth Redwall novel, Triss is the story of slaves, pirates, treasure, and riddles. Triss is an escaped slave from the north, hotly pursued by her captors and a Freebooter crew. Meanwhile, a young badger and a hare leave Salamadastron to begin an adventure on their own, and Redwallers discover clues leading them towards Brockhall, the badger home and safehouse from the days before Redwall. The three stories come together when Triss meets up with Sagax the badger and they are chased deep into Mossflower Wood. All of the usual aspects of the Redwall books are here--riddles, adventures, travel, battles, lots of food, as well as a variety of cultures and accents, yet in Triss they seem different: over-exaggerated in many places and unusual in others. Accents are almost comical, the emphasis on food is heavy-handed, and the riddles come in the form of a coded language. Furthermore, the diverse storylines in Triss remain independent almost all of the way through, and the text only feels united and complete in the last through chapters. Despite my love for the Redwall series, I wasn't impressed with this book. I found some characters annoying (a first for this series) and didn't find the plot very exciting. This was just a bad book for Jacques, and it's the first Redwall book I wouldn't recommend.
No doubt that the books in the Redwall series all operate in the same way: they all contain adventures, battles, cultures, accents, food, and riddles. Jacques makes each story unique, but those underlying aspects are almost always there. They are also present in Triss, but it feels like Jacques uses them in a different way in this text. Many of the aspects, food, accents, and riddles in particular, are exaggerated even to the point of being foolish or annoying. Others, the adventures in particular, are isolated from one another, split into too many concurrent plots that don't come together until the end. It seems to me that Jacques was trying to do soemthing new with this book: mix up old aspects, make something funny/more extreme, and approach the plot in a new way. I consider it a failed attempt. Triss doesn't read as smoothly as most Redwall books, and the food and accents actually make some of the characters annoying--something I've never seen before in the series.
That said, Triss isn't a bad book. Jacques is still a solid writer, and even while experimenting with new interpretations of his themes, he manages to write a good, exciting plot with a number of interesting and admirable characters (the warriors, and the protagonist specifically). The book still reads quickly, the sea travel in particular is well described, and journey towards Brockhall should excite longtime readers of the series who will remember it from Mossflower. I do wish that there had been more about Brockhall, however, beyond the final battle there, but I was happy to see it regardless.
Nonetheless, this is the first Redwall book that I wouldn't recommend. It's not a bad read, doesn't take much time, and is probably interesting to longtime Redwall readers. However, it's a poor example of a Redwall book and it feels like a failed experiment on Jacques' part. It's a book you can skip--nothing too important to the larger Redwall chronology occurs, the characters don't stand out, and you'll save yourself some aggravation by avoiding the annoying character that crop up. Unfortunate, but true. I don't recommend this book.
