Richard Adams

David Parkins

'Fiver and I will be leaving the warren tonight . . . I don't know exactly where we shall go, but we'll take anyone who's ready to come with us.' Fiver was only a young rabbit, but he has a sixth sense and foresaw that disaster was about to destroy the warren. Few believed him. Led by his brother Hazel, a small band of rabbits sets out on a dangerous journey to find a safe home . . .

Watership Down

Sade A

"i want to emphasize that Watership Down was never intended to be some sort of allegory or parable. It is simply the story about rabbits made up and told in the car"
- Richard Adams

I think it's important to have this at the back of your mind when you read this book. There were times when some of the things the characters did really didn't make sense to me cos i felt like there was a better way and then i'd be like Sade, these characters' are Rabbits.
That aside this was a very charming story of the resourcefullness of our band of rabbits. I would advice watching the Netflix adaptation before reading this book just because there was a whole lot of Nature exposition going on in this book that i just could not get on board with and it would probably be a whole lot easier to picture everything that's happening. There were also certain times , not a lot mind you that i could not place what the rabbits were describing.

Given that this story is told from a rabbit's perspective of the world, i think this is a fantastic book.


  All in all a really great story. Would totally recommend.


**** On second thought maybe read the book first. I just started watching the Netflix adaptation and they've cut a whole lot of stuff out.

Watership Down

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