Taggerung was the first Redwall book I ever read. It has a good plot, with much humor and light-heartedness (Boorag the hair had me giggling) and excelent songs, but it never appealed to me all that strongly. Part of this is because its animal fiction. While there are certain books with animal characters I can enjoy as much as books with humans in it, like the Silverwing Trilogy and the Warriors saga, I find it awkward to have all this revolving around rodents, especially since I don't know what stoat looks like. But that's just me, and you shouldn't let that keep you from reading the Redwall books. But I'm reading Martin the Warrior now, and even though I haven't gotten passed the first 100 pages yet I can tell it will be a lot more worth while than Taggerung, but I would still recomend this to any avid Redwall fan.