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Duncton Quest (The Duncton Chronicles 2)

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This book is a must-buy for a Horwood fan: rewarding yet disturbing in an epic way.

Duncton Quest, is a far darker book than Duncton Wood . Instead of Bracken and Boswell as Main Characters there is Tryfan (son of Bracken and Rebecca) and Spindle. And in the evil department there is Henbrane Daugther of Mandrake. The book starts were Duncton Wood ends. (It is hard to beleive the books were written almost nine years apart.) Disease, death and hatered are a main part of the book as moles who follow the "Word" take over those who follow the "stone". As a Stone beleiver, Tryfan struggles to keep faith in a world going dark. A number of characters from Duncton Wood appear in Duncton Quest. Listed as a childrens book in a written for adults. The book is FANTASTIC and easy to follow, even through in most chapters, you are following different groups of moles at the same time.

This is my favorite of all six books. They should be read in order, but read them you must. All six books are in my top ten list.

More moles.


This is pretty much more of the same thing as the first book.

Moles also do not live very long according to the novel (can't say I ever checked the actual biology).

This means given the 700 odd page length adventure of the first book your original mole set gets pretty old, meaning another bunch has to take on the task in the sequel.