DNF @ Page 24 - After the last story arc, I can't go back to the beginning, I want to know what happens next! Savannah will read this and summarize, and decide whether we will continue this arc or move onto the next one.

Irgendwie ist das hier so ein schweres Buch zu beurteilen. Ich habe beschlossen, nach langer Zeit die Warrior Cats Serie zu beenden. Als Kind habe ich die ersten vier Staffeln gleich mehrfach verschlungen und dachte jetzt, dass es endlich Zeit ist zu Ende zu bringen, was ich begonnen habe.

Und irgendwie liebe ich die Idee der Geschichte immer noch, die wilden Katzen und ihr Leben. Und es ist interessant zu sehend, wie die Kultur, welche man in den ersten 4 Staffeln kennengelernt hat, langsam heranwächst. Definitiv eine interessante Geschichte, auch wenn der Großteil meiner Liebe für das Buch einfach aus Nostalgia heraus entsteht. ( )

Don't really understand what all the hype is about. ( )

First foray into R's fave series, an effort to keep my hand in and ensure a direct link to a major influence.

I knew only snippets of the Warrior mythos until now, and the layers and complexity of characters is impressive. To some extent, this cycle of 6 books is world-building: the origin story of the clans and how they came to the Forest. And yet ... there are hints that this is in fact a return, that the mountain cats lived here before and something pushed them out. So again, layers.

The author(s) employ a good vocabulary, stretching younger readers but always appropriate to the story or setting (specifically recall "scree" used several times in one scene, with variation but never defining the term); good emotional and social complexity in dynamics and challenges; and seemingly a sophisticated back story as noted. Good attention paid to ecology (botany, geography, natural cycles like seasons and the implications for clan living) and not shirking from unpleasantries like illness, wounds, and death, but never gory or shocking. ( )

Half Moon, the leader of the tribe in the moutains, has had a vision of the sun trail. It shows her a place of warmth and plenty of prey. She tells her tribe about this place and it tempts some of the cats because of the cold and few prey they have in the moutains. a few brave cats are sent on a journey to discover this new land and live the rest of their lives there. Gray Wing, one of the journeying cats, helps his tribemates through many things to get to the prey-rich land. And his efforts were not wasted.

I loved this book! Just like how I love all the other Warrior books! It was fun to read about the ancients again. My favorite part was when Bright Stream was carried off by an egal. I know that you might think that I enjoy hearing about cats getting eaten by large birds, but the truth is a like a good death scene! My least favorite part was when Clear Sky stole Storm from Gray Wing. I hate him! He's such a jerk!!!! this was a really good book over all. I loved reading it. I hope Erin Hunter comes out with new ones soon! ( )