I certainly remember violence, much more than the batshit stuff which I would have thought would have appealed otherwise; I must have found it too off-putting back in the day. I don't know if I got as far as Mattimeo before my patience ran out or not - they came along a little late for me and soon got very samey. But I was never really into that kind of talking animal thing, really. (I mean, where they wear clothes and have their own societies - they all seem pretty disturbing one way or another and I swore off them all after Redwall and Robin Jarvis. If humans meet a animal that happens to talk, that's fine, of course.)