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The Place of No Stars
by Erin Hunter
****SPOILERS FOR GRAYSTRIPE'S VOW****
This book was pretty good. It was incredibly fast-paced with the three different POVs flowing nicely and smoothly together. It was easy to transition from Shadowsight to Bristlefrost to Rootspring and it felt as though I was reading the same story told from different perspectives, which is an aspect several books have tried and failed, to do. It was wonderful to see Graystripe take charge; out of every cat in ThunderClan, he has the most experience. I absolutely loved his comeback to Tigerstar II when he tried to push Graystripe out of the conversation regarding the Dark Forest: "I led ThunderClan for moons when Firestar was away on his quest to find SkyClan-long before you were even kitted. So how about a bit of respect?". Iconic.
I do wish Bramblestar died in the Dark Forest for the sole fact that I don't care for him. It also would have been interesting to see how a quest can fail. One of the main goals was getting Bramblestar back, and if they failed and Bramblestar died, what would have happened? Would Squirrelflight continue to lead once she came back? Would Graystripe help her the way he promised to in "Graystripe's Vow"? How would the dynamics of ThunderClan shift?
With Bramblestar back, how does ThunderClan heal from this? How do the dynamics change? How was Ashfur able to come up with this plan? Why did StarClan let him into their hunting grounds in the first place? If there was trouble in the Clans and StarClan wanted to warn them, why would they send Ashfur out of all cats instead of someone like Leopardstar, Tallstar, Rowanclaw, or Firestar? And how is all of this supposed to come to an end in one book? I hope the last book has some answers.
This book was pretty good. It was incredibly fast-paced with the three different POVs flowing nicely and smoothly together. It was easy to transition from Shadowsight to Bristlefrost to Rootspring and it felt as though I was reading the same story told from different perspectives, which is an aspect several books have tried and failed, to do. It was wonderful to see Graystripe take charge; out of every cat in ThunderClan, he has the most experience. I absolutely loved his comeback to Tigerstar II when he tried to push Graystripe out of the conversation regarding the Dark Forest: "I led ThunderClan for moons when Firestar was away on his quest to find SkyClan-long before you were even kitted. So how about a bit of respect?". Iconic.
I do wish Bramblestar died in the Dark Forest for the sole fact that I don't care for him. It also would have been interesting to see how a quest can fail. One of the main goals was getting Bramblestar back, and if they failed and Bramblestar died, what would have happened? Would Squirrelflight continue to lead once she came back? Would Graystripe help her the way he promised to in "Graystripe's Vow"? How would the dynamics of ThunderClan shift?
With Bramblestar back, how does ThunderClan heal from this? How do the dynamics change? How was Ashfur able to come up with this plan? Why did StarClan let him into their hunting grounds in the first place? If there was trouble in the Clans and StarClan wanted to warn them, why would they send Ashfur out of all cats instead of someone like Leopardstar, Tallstar, Rowanclaw, or Firestar? And how is all of this supposed to come to an end in one book? I hope the last book has some answers.