This month, I am going wild and doing a lot of animal books for my reviews. Part of how I choose my theme is by which indie book I want to read, and Mr. Headley came up on my blog radar.  I am a closet fan of YA, and I really like Redwall.  By the description, it sounded like The Longtails Saga was going to be a sort of post-apocalyptic Redwall.

As a whole, my assumption was mostly true.  Magic was involved in the story, and the culture of the mice was a combination of modern American and East-Asian rather than medieval English.  One of the things I didn’t like about it was it had a lot of references, reminiscent of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One.  I hated RPO, but if you liked both RPO and Redwall, you should DEFINITELY read Longtails.  Even with the references…