Coraoccllo's Full Review: Richard George Adams - Watership Down
Undoubtedly if you don't like fantasy you will probably not like this novel. There is something about talking rabbits that makes certain people sneer, and otherwise sensible people relegate the book to the children's section. It isn't a children's book--at least, not a small children's book. Perhaps the perfect age would be thirteen or fourteen. But of course the rabbits in the book talk only to other animals, and each other, and how do you know they don't?
Fiver, the runt of his litter, is a little bit fay, what you might call psychic until Miss Cleo took over that term. He senses that his warren is about to be destroyed, and encourages his brother Hazel to speak to the warren leaders.
They take no notice, so Fiver, Hazel and several of their friends depart to form a new warren.
The rest of the novel concerns their trials along the way, and their efforts to find female rabbits to populate the new warren. What is impressive is that the rabbits, though in the novel endowed with the power of speech, retain their animal character and do not become simply humans in animal clothing.
Interspersed with the narrative are "rabbit myths", which should please and amuse everyone except the most ardent dog admirers.
BUT--I just can't get used to the idea that "Hazel" is a boy's name.
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