aotora 's review for:

Yellowfang's Secret by Erin Hunter

4.0

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So I finally got around to the next favourite character's SE and I loved it. Yellowfang is such a tragic character. She wants to be a warrior and later a queen so she can have kits of her own. Starclan instead shows her that her destiny is to be a medicine cat, so she has to follow that path. She ends up having secret kits anyways, and Starclan prophesises that one of them will be a violent dark leader that will shed a lot of innocent blood- and it comes true when Brokenstar becomes a leader. I also absolutely hated Starclan in this book, first they accepted Brokenstar as a leader even though they knew that he wanted multiple cats killed so he could first become a deputy and then a leader- because he was a deputy and therefor he had to become a leader- there had to be a solution there, especially because they saw how ambitious and violent he was and because they knew how much blood will be shed before he is dead, later when he starts training small kits and banishes elders Yellowfang talks to Starclan again and she meets Cedarstar, her old leader again - and he is like: "welp nothin' we can do sorry deal with it on your own." - which really bugged me because they are supposed to be the most powerful clan of them all, they should've been able to do something. And if they bothered telling her: "yo you are pregnant and your son will be a monster" she'd at least have a choice/chance to maybe terminate the pregnancy or something, instead they kept her in the dark. I also despised how quickly her own clanmates turned on her and listened to Brokenstar at the end, including her own parents- you saw her being happy for you getting kits, you saw her playing with kits, yet when she is found with two clearly dead but still warm kits knowing that she can't do anything to magically resurrect them (because it clearly states that they've been shredded to pieces pretty much) you are quick to believe and jump the conclusion that she did it, this annoyed me to no end- her own siblings were on her side trying to fight for her but her parents were on the enemy's side in a second- I know that grief can make you do stupid things but this was beyond sad and it made me so angry. And I also hated how quickly they believed Brokentail is doing the right thing when he started training kits and when multiple kits died way too soon and when he banished the elders. I also loved Badgerfang and his mentor and I felt so, so sorry for them for what happened. I can't wait to read more super editions but this one, this one is both disturbing and really, really sad- too bad the book only shows the comeuppance Brokenstar gets in manga form because I would've loved reading that satisfying part again.