Book Review: Warrior Cats: Into The Wild - Erin Hunter

"For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying—and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all."

Read Date - May 2024

Length - 288 pages

Genre - Adventure, Fantasy, Animal Fiction

Rating - 5/10

Notes - I got the first boxset when i was ten. i never read it though, because i was dealing with a lot throughout my childhood. I originally tried reading this 7 years ago when a family member had passed away and i couldn’t even get past chapter 3. something about a house cat abandoning their family was SO TRAGIC to me and it was just brushed over. Rereading it, i see now that it’s much bigger than that. It’s like a war novel, but with cats. We see over the course of many months that Firepaw (previous Rusty) has grown to love his lifestyle. He’s a feral cat at heart, and wants to live in the wild. he learns to love his clan and protect it with his life. For me, reading about all of the injuries is hard. i LOVE cats. I hate to see them hurt, which is why all the deaths are hard for me as well. I keep finding myself imagining them as anthropomorphic animals instead of actual cats. I’m personally finding it hard to get invested in this book the way i do romance (the genre i usually read) but i had these since i was a kid and knew i had to read them eventually. I’m slowly working my way through, and havent formed a serious enough opinion about the series to say if i love it or hate it yet, but it hasn’t hit my DNF pile yet so we’re good