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thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Animal death
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Murder
rinku's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
I’ve read River of Fire like two months ago and I already barely remember anything about its plot. I rated it 3.5 stars and maybe that’s a bit generous when thinking about it, but 3 stars seems a bit too low.
Like in the other novels of this arc, there’s drama in all of the Clans. Besides this, nothing really happens here. The protagonists are wondering what the prophecy could mean, while Bramblestar is consequently ignoring it – yeah, he’s not a good leader. The protagonists have some development here though and Twigbranch is finally a warrior !
For the Clan drama, RiverClan finally returns in River of Fire and becomes relevant again; I was starting to get annoyed that they’re not there anymore at all. WindClan with its new leader is now the only Clan that acts reasonable – never guessed I would say that one day. SkyClan and ShadowClan are still in a conflict, and I wished that we got Tawnypelt as the next leader of ShadowClan, but sadly, this doesn’t happen and Tigerheart becomes the new ShadowClan leader instead. It’s so sad that Dovewing goes with him, I’ll miss her in ThunderClan . I’m not a big fan of SkyClan currently and especially of Leafstar with her selfish behaviour.
My biggest issue is that now the romance takes up more space which just annoyed me. There was a short, strange insta love episode between Velvet and Alderheart. Velvet herself was cute though how she brought her favorite toy to the Clans. We also get Twigpaw x Finpaw and Violetshine x Tree and I’m not a fan of all of those. But I think that I like Tree a bit; thanks to him, a new mediator position is created in SkyClan .
Just as a sidenote, there was already a mistake on the first page of this novel: Finpaw is described as having a tail, even though he lost it which was even an important plot point in Darkest Night. It’s nothing new in the Warriors series but I’m still annoyed by those inconsistencies in the narrative.
River of Fire was not bad and better than many other <i>Warriors</i> books, but I’m not sure where A Vision of Shadows wants to go after it. I start to get the feeling that the plot is going in circles at this point.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
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