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Rising Storm by Erin Hunter

8 reviews

tecknicolour's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Animal death, Violence, Grief, Blood, and Death

minoestrashrat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Yellowfang's death

will forever be heartbreaking. This is a really strong book, I honestly forgot what this one was about specifically but once I realized I got pretty excited.

The forest fire scene is super tense, I actually really enjoy Cloudpaw's character and reading about Bluestar's degrading mental health is always chilling to the bone.

Yes this book is kind of a filler to prepare for A Dangerous Path and to process the ending of Forest of Secrets, but the slow buildup of the climax and the great character interactions more than make up to it for it to me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: War

vibingjaren's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness

rokinjaguar's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The cracks in the writing are starting to show, earlier than I remember. The first book holds up imo, but the flaws in Erin Hunter’s writing are starting to be more and more obvious. Like Dustpelt and Fernpaw are a yikes 😬

It still has what makes the series special, though — the evocative worldbuilding, unique vibes, and addictive plot. 

Bluestar is so interestingly-written in the first series, and she continues to be complex and compelling. The ending is really intense!

It’s still such a fun time, and I’m definitely gonna continue the series! It just doesn’t hold up quite as well as I remember. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Mental illness

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

mm1216's review

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War and Blood

samdalefox's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

The fourth book in the Warriors series. I'm rating this one on par with the third installment but for different reasons. Where the third one ties up some loose plot ends and developed characters in an interesting way, Rising Storm (the first part of the second half of the series) clearly throwing challenges and conflict at the clan members to overcome in the next two books and ends on an obvious, but massive, cliffhanger. There is A LOT going on, but I think younger readers would find that as exciting as I did, not confusing. However, as mentioned the introduction of challenges means that the themes tend towards the more emotionally difficult: conflict, isolation, mental illness

shown through Bluestar

, becoming homeless

shown through the forest fire

, kidnapping

shown through Cloudpaw

, betrayal, outcasting

shown through the casting out of the sick shadow clan cats who asked help

, lack of confidence, and death.

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MY YELLOWFANG HAS DIED. I WAS HEART BROKEN. Both she and Cinderpaw remain my favourites. Graystripe is still up there too.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Fire/Fire injury

encryptedorchardpest's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Animal death

elirizon's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, and Blood