Reviews - Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

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Warriors Graphic Novel: The Prophecies Begin #1

Erin Hunter

4.25 AVERAGE

schausjk's review

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

There's a lot to enjoy about this graphic novel adaptation. Every single one of the character designs felt refreshed, modern, and well suited to the character themselves. It was visually engaging throughout, and very expressive. It's very clear that the authors have a lot of respect for the source material, and I love all the little details they put into what they created.

Unfortunately, I think this book suffers a lot in the pacing. Trying to cram several books into one graphic novel really made a lot of the story feel rushed. When you have to move quickly from one event to the next, takes away the time to truly get to know the characters and the dangers they're facing. The looming threat of human encroachment and of starvation doesn't weigh as heavily when you don't have time and space to show their impacts. The emotional impact of certain character deaths

like Spottedleaf's in particular

are severely weakened when the character in question only appeared in a couple scenes. Even the character relationships didn't have time to develop and lay the groundwork both for what's going on in this book and what is to come in future installments. While you get some battles and twists, the rush meant that the emotional punches are a bit pulled . I really want it to live up to the series' affectionate title "Game of Thrones but with cats" but at present it falls a bit flat. My nostalgia for the series really carried me through this one, but if you hadn't already read the original books you'd probably have a much harder time really getting into this book.

TLDR: A really fun adaptation that felt rushed.

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nicosta_music's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This first installment of the Warriors graphic novel adaptations covered all the highlights of what I remembered from reading the novels as a kid, but now with super cute cat illustrations. I loved the art style and it did a good job of paring down the first two books in the series.

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