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Yellowfang's Secret
by Erin Hunter
RATING: 4 stars
You know, the endings of all of these books are frustrating lol. I hate how it shows you like every important moment of their lives and then BAM three year timeskip. (And they're cats, three years is a rly long time lol)
Anyways, I always feel like they're younger than they really are because of this. How do they all have kits so young!? It's so weird. And then Yellowfang's parents had more kits like two moons before she left ShadowClan as a 'very old cat'... which doesn't make sense? Logically I feel like her parents would have become elders long ago. But then when Yellowfang said she was old, I almost didn't believe it? And her 'wicked temper' or whatever kinda felt like it came out of nowhere when she met Firepaw at the end. She spent her whole life being a pretty decent, nice cat- or at least it seemed like that to me lol. I still love her in the original series, but after reading this I don't buy that she was okay with leaving ShadowClan just like that.
Anyway, there were also a lot of inconsistencies in this book that kinda bothered me. I feel like Barkpaw should have been older since he was denmates with Tallstar in the nursery and Tallstar was definitely older than or very close to Yellowfang's age, and also it didn't make sense for Brambleberry to show up at the Moonstone with Mudpaw...? Crookedstar's Promise has him start as Mudfur, a warrior turned medicine cat apprentice. Also, Brokenstar didn't actually appoint Blackfoot as deputy, did he? I thought Tigerstar showed up with Blackfoot who was formerly a rogue, and even if I'm wrong about that it still messes with the timeline because
Idk, none of this stuff is a huge deal, and it's not like it ruined the book or anything, but it did bother me enough that I wanted to mention it.
Other than that, I liked this book just as much as the other super editions! I don't remember loving it that much the first time around, especially because ShadowClan is always shown as like... shady lol, and I remember Raggedstar was kind of a jerk. And I'm ngl, he kinda still was, but it wasn't as bad as I remember lol. I think he was just bad at social interaction. And blind to everything Brokenstar ever did wrong lol.
The one other thing that bothered me isn't really anything wrong with the book itself, but I just don't like how the Warriors series in general has StarClan as this important thing that everyone should respect and then turns around and has them
I also didn't love the plotline of how Yellowfang felt the pain of other cats in her clan. There was zero, and I mean zero mention of this in the main series, it's irrelevant and cheap, and I just didn't like it. I think her choosing to be a medicine cat purely out of passion for it would have been much, much better, and I feel like it was a dumb plot device to create the whole 'medicine cats can't have kits' scandal. It's not the same as it was in Tallstar's Revenge, where there was this whole other side of WindClan that we never saw, because we didn't need to see it in the main series. Tallstar had an adventure outside clan borders as a younger warrior? Fine. It's cool and it adds to his character without also feeling like it was important to the main plot... but this I think is something that would have merited a mention.
Ahh I'm making it sound like I didn't like the book but I really did! I loved Yellowfang's relationship with Runningnose (ha that's such a hilarious name) and Brightflower- to an extent- and I also loved getting to see ShadowClan! ThunderClan's rivalry with them usually makes them seem horrible, but honestly I wish we got more of the clans other than just ThunderClan in the main series. Idk how any of the clans have so many problems with each other when they're all just good at the end of the day and just wanna live in peace and hunt and stuff? Idk, maybe StarClan just gives them ominous prophecies to make things more interesting lol.
After this I think I'm almost done with all the side stories from the first series and then I'll move on to the second one! I'm... cautiously excited? It was good, but I remember being bored for some of it, so we'll see.
You know, the endings of all of these books are frustrating lol. I hate how it shows you like every important moment of their lives and then BAM three year timeskip. (And they're cats, three years is a rly long time lol)
Anyways, I always feel like they're younger than they really are because of this. How do they all have kits so young!? It's so weird. And then Yellowfang's parents had more kits like two moons before she left ShadowClan as a 'very old cat'... which doesn't make sense? Logically I feel like her parents would have become elders long ago. But then when Yellowfang said she was old, I almost didn't believe it? And her 'wicked temper' or whatever kinda felt like it came out of nowhere when she met Firepaw at the end. She spent her whole life being a pretty decent, nice cat- or at least it seemed like that to me lol. I still love her in the original series, but after reading this I don't buy that she was okay with leaving ShadowClan just like that.
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And I also don't buy that everyone turned against her so quickly. She'd been healing them all for ages... what kind of medicine cat would kill kits? Kits she helped to deliver?Anyway, there were also a lot of inconsistencies in this book that kinda bothered me. I feel like Barkpaw should have been older since he was denmates with Tallstar in the nursery and Tallstar was definitely older than or very close to Yellowfang's age, and also it didn't make sense for Brambleberry to show up at the Moonstone with Mudpaw...? Crookedstar's Promise has him start as Mudfur, a warrior turned medicine cat apprentice. Also, Brokenstar didn't actually appoint Blackfoot as deputy, did he? I thought Tigerstar showed up with Blackfoot who was formerly a rogue, and even if I'm wrong about that it still messes with the timeline because
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it means Blackfoot would have immediately become leader after Brokenstar's death.Idk, none of this stuff is a huge deal, and it's not like it ruined the book or anything, but it did bother me enough that I wanted to mention it.
Other than that, I liked this book just as much as the other super editions! I don't remember loving it that much the first time around, especially because ShadowClan is always shown as like... shady lol, and I remember Raggedstar was kind of a jerk. And I'm ngl, he kinda still was, but it wasn't as bad as I remember lol. I think he was just bad at social interaction. And blind to everything Brokenstar ever did wrong lol.
The one other thing that bothered me isn't really anything wrong with the book itself, but I just don't like how the Warriors series in general has StarClan as this important thing that everyone should respect and then turns around and has them
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do things like give Brokenstar nine lives knowing what he'll do, not help out when horrible things like Raggedstar's death and Brokenstar killing kits happens, and even how they sorta curse some of the characters? I honestly think Yellowfang was fine with being a warrior. She said at the end that she loved being a medicine cat for her clan, but she literally never mentioned it until Sagewhisker showed up like 'oh it's your destiny' and started practically forcing her to become a medicine cat.I also didn't love the plotline of how Yellowfang felt the pain of other cats in her clan. There was zero, and I mean zero mention of this in the main series, it's irrelevant and cheap, and I just didn't like it. I think her choosing to be a medicine cat purely out of passion for it would have been much, much better, and I feel like it was a dumb plot device to create the whole 'medicine cats can't have kits' scandal. It's not the same as it was in Tallstar's Revenge, where there was this whole other side of WindClan that we never saw, because we didn't need to see it in the main series. Tallstar had an adventure outside clan borders as a younger warrior? Fine. It's cool and it adds to his character without also feeling like it was important to the main plot... but this I think is something that would have merited a mention.
Ahh I'm making it sound like I didn't like the book but I really did! I loved Yellowfang's relationship with Runningnose (ha that's such a hilarious name) and Brightflower- to an extent- and I also loved getting to see ShadowClan! ThunderClan's rivalry with them usually makes them seem horrible, but honestly I wish we got more of the clans other than just ThunderClan in the main series. Idk how any of the clans have so many problems with each other when they're all just good at the end of the day and just wanna live in peace and hunt and stuff? Idk, maybe StarClan just gives them ominous prophecies to make things more interesting lol.
After this I think I'm almost done with all the side stories from the first series and then I'll move on to the second one! I'm... cautiously excited? It was good, but I remember being bored for some of it, so we'll see.