Warriors: Firestar's Quest

Warriors: Firestar's Quest
Author: Erin Hunter
Series: Warriors (Special Edition)
Publisher HarperCollins
How Received: library

There is peace at last between the warrior Clans, and Firestar is proud of the strength and unity of the cats he leads in ThunderClan. All four forest Clans are thriving, training new warriors and keeping their boundaries without conflict.

But Firestar's dreams are haunted by wailing cats fleeing a terrible disaster. With unexpected help from an old kittypet friend, he discovers a shocking secret: StarClan, the warrior ancestors who guide his paw steps, have lied to him.

Firestar is faced with the hardest decision of his life. Can he really turn his back on the forest that has become his home and embark on a perilous quest to discover a dark truth—one that has been buried beyond the memory of living cats? Whatever he finds at the end of his journey, he knows that nothing can ever be the same again.

I loved this book. It was just as fantastically written as the series it's connected to, and the new cat characters had just as much depth as the others did. I fell more in love with Firestar - what I would give to have a kittypet like him or Sandstorm!

The one thing that really annoyed me, though, was the [SPOILER] talking rats. It was just absurd - you could have had the whole plot line without the rats talking. [/SPOILER] There's nothing I can do about it now, it just severely irritated me throughout the rest of the book, and it's the one reason the rating dropped. That's how badly it annoyed me.


Overall Rating: 9/10
Warriors series or The DragonRiders of Pern?: Both books are super duper different, so it all depends on your choice - sci fi or animals. (I consider animals in a genre of their own - it's not quite fantasy, as we can't tell you what's going on in one's head, but it's not science fiction, because we could be spinning a story. It's animal fiction.) However, I love both.

Happy reading!

~Nicole