chamomiledaydreams 's review for:

Yellowfang's Secret by Erin Hunter

2.0

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I like Yellowfang, but there aren't many cats in this book who stand out to me, except for Cloudpelt. Maybe it's because ShadowClan is given such a bad reputation in the main series and this story explains the worst of it, but I didn't feel as much of an investment in the Clan as a whole. There were also a couple of continuity errors that irked me as I was reading. The first one I noticed alters the backstory of Mudfur, a character whose story (as portrayed in "Crookedstar's Promise") I love. However, this book rewrites it so he becomes a medicine cat apprentice at a younger age (referred to as "Mudpaw") and is given a generic personality that doesn't do his character justice. The second continuity error that bothered me was a contradiction within two chapters, where Stonetooth was in StarClan one moment then dying in ShadowClan during the very next chapter. Overall, I feel like this special edition didn't add anything to my opinions on the series. Yellowfang is still great, but I have no new emotions that the first series with Firestar didn't teach me.