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Warriors: A Vision of Shadows #1-6
Warriors Cat A Vision of Shadows Series Books 1 - 6 Series 5 Collection Set By Erin Hunter
THIS IS THE UK EDITION WHICH IS SHRINK WRAPPED AND NOT THE US EDITION WHICH COMES IN A BOX SET
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched
Warriors Cat A Vision of Shadows Series Books 1 - 6 Series 6 Collection Set By Erin
The Apprentice's
For many moons, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan have lived in peace in their territories around the lake.
Thunder and
Nearly a moon has passed since Alderpaw returned from his journey to SkyClan’s gorge, where he found the territory taken over by rogues. Now the same vicious cats that drove out SkyClan have traced Alderpaw’s path back to the lake… and ShadowClan may be the next to fall.
Shattered
ShadowClan has fallen. A group of rogues now rules the pine forest, and their cruel leader, Darktail, will not stop until he has conquered the rest of the Clans.Alderheart is more certain than ever that their only hope is to find the lost SkyClan and fulfill StarClan’s prophecy.
Darkest
SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans, hoping to find a new territory to call home. But not every cat is convinced that this is where SkyClan belongs—and the fate of all five warrior Clans remains uncertain.
River of
StarClan’s prophecy has been fulfilled, and the long-lost SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans. Many cats believe the danger is past.
The Raging
ShadowClan has returned under the leadership of a new Tigerstar, but their renewed strength has brought the tensions around the lake to an explosive breaking point. SkyClan’s place among the Clans is about to be decided once and for all.
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched
Warriors Cat A Vision of Shadows Series Books 1 - 6 Series 6 Collection Set By Erin
The Apprentice's
For many moons, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan have lived in peace in their territories around the lake.
Thunder and
Nearly a moon has passed since Alderpaw returned from his journey to SkyClan’s gorge, where he found the territory taken over by rogues. Now the same vicious cats that drove out SkyClan have traced Alderpaw’s path back to the lake… and ShadowClan may be the next to fall.
Shattered
ShadowClan has fallen. A group of rogues now rules the pine forest, and their cruel leader, Darktail, will not stop until he has conquered the rest of the Clans.Alderheart is more certain than ever that their only hope is to find the lost SkyClan and fulfill StarClan’s prophecy.
Darkest
SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans, hoping to find a new territory to call home. But not every cat is convinced that this is where SkyClan belongs—and the fate of all five warrior Clans remains uncertain.
River of
StarClan’s prophecy has been fulfilled, and the long-lost SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans. Many cats believe the danger is past.
The Raging
ShadowClan has returned under the leadership of a new Tigerstar, but their renewed strength has brought the tensions around the lake to an explosive breaking point. SkyClan’s place among the Clans is about to be decided once and for all.
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Published December 5, 2023
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Erin Hunter
285 books10.7k followersErin Hunter is the pseudonym of five people: Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui T. Sutherland, Gillian Philip, and Inbali Iserles, as well as editor Victoria Holmes. Together, they write the Warriors series as well as the Seekers and Survivors series. Erin Hunter is working on a new series now called Bravelands.
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her interest in astronomy and standing stones.
Erin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. As well as having a great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior, shaped by her interest in astronomy and standing stones.
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June 10, 2025
The Apprentice's Quest - 2 stars
Thunder and Shadow - 5 stars
Shattered Sky - 4 stars
Darkest Night - 3 stars
River of Fire - 2 stars
The Raging Storm - 4 stars
The Apprentice's Quest - 2 stars
I'm definitely in the camp of those who think that after Bramblestar's Storm it would have been a good opportunity to start fresh with brand new characters, brand new setting, and maybe new clans all together.. However I don't think people were that sold on the Dawn of the Clans series and that's why that didn't end up happening. There's no changing this and it's already happened, but I think that's definitely something important to note.
This series is centered on finding SkyClan and bringing that clan to the new lake territory. As well as all the changes and adjustments that will happen as a result of having a fifth clan back in the territories. I've always enjoyed reading the different stories centering around the SkyClan cats, however now that they're at the lake I feel like they'll just be another clan and won't be as interesting. One of the most interesting aspects were the daylight warriors and I feel like we all knew going into this that they just wouldn't make the journey with the rest of the SkyClan cats. Which is just disappointing..
The main character of this book is Sparkpaw, Alderpaw, and Needlepaw. It's quickly determined that Alderpaw just doesn't have a knack for being a warrior and just kinda.. ends up a medicine cat apprentice. He's needed for the journey to find SkyClan, but I feel like a better way to go about this is him just having a natural want to be a medicine cat. Maybe Squirrelflight could have visited Leafpool often and that's why he could be interested in being one instead? He's also not very good at remembering herbs that well in the beginning. I just wonder what happened to StarClan finding the cats they need for the prophecy such as The New Prophecy books like none of those cats were forced to be medicine cats? It also just isn't fair to compare Alderpaw to Sparkpaw since she just seems naturally good at being a warrior either. Maybe it would just be a bit more interesting if certain cats just aren't as good at catching say sparrows compared to their other clanmates. I'm just starting to find it hard to believe that every warrior in the clans are just naturally good at everything..
The next part of the book explores how cats in ShadowClan are just super disrespectful and don't really care about most of the stuff that the other clan cats do. I feel like this plotline just was a bit rushed. It's also never explained why they are like this either. There's just been nothing hinting at them developing to being that way such as having mentors that are a bit jaded to the warrior life? It's just suddenly there. They're just like that and it never gets explained. I also find it hard to believe that they're like this just because of Rowanstar's leadership. There's been nothing hinted at him being like a lazy leader or something. Needlepaw is also one of these disrespectful apprentices.
Finally, Alderpaw is revealed the secret about the SkyClan cats from Sandstorm and honestly I'm happy they remembered her being part of that journey. She also decides to go with them, which makes sense to me because she's the only cat that would know how to go there in the first place? I don't know why so many people have an issue with her going besides the fact that she's an elder. No one could have predicted how wrong the last leg of the journey had gone. Sandstorm slowly succumbs to a leg injury and ends up passing away. Along the journey, they also discover that needlepaw had followed them and decided to go along with them. Sandstorm's death was pretty sad, but Alderpaw is supposed to be a medicine cat and he just.. never used any of those skills to help her from dying. I know Sandstorm is a stubborn cat that would refuse help, but also Alderpaw is a medicine cat and should have a bit more authority as the one whose leading this whole thing..
We meet Darktail who has taken over the SkyClan gorge and it turns out he's the cat that drove them all off. Needlepaw has also taken an interest in one of Darktail's cats Rain, but they end up separated from each other after Darktail's motives were revealed. He kills Mistfeather who was a SkyClan warrior (Introduced in this book and has brief appearances in Hawkwing's Journey. He's not a cat we've been introduced to before) After that they leave and are seperated in a river. With Needlepaw, Alderpaw discovers two kits who had been abandoned by their mother. They call them Violetkit and Twigkit due to the nest they found the kits in. Alderpaw asks Needlepaw not to tell Shadowclan about the kits, but due to the prophecy she believes that Shadowclan should also have a right to the kits they believe will one day save the clans... again. At the gathering the two are separated into separate clans and Alderpaw believes this to be a wrong decision.
Overall, I find this book to be interesting due to Darktail, but I also find some plot elements to be very frustrating..
Thunder and Shadow - 5 stars
There's a bit of a timeskip from the first book to this second book. Twigkit is growing up and Spiderleg has just.. offhandedly mentioned dying of greencough. Rowanstar ends up visiting the camp because Littlecloud is slowly dying. It's decided that Leafpool will go over to Shadowclan and help train Puddlekit into being a medicine cat apprentice. Thankfully, Puddlekit turns out to be a right choice of medicine cat, but again there's that trend of nobody wanting to be a medicine cat!!! I'm sick to death of this plot point please let it die. If nobody wants to be a medicine cat then there wouldn't be any!!
Bramblestar sends more cats to fail to find SkyClan, but in the mean time Alderpaw and Needlepaw help Twigkit and Violetkit to meet a couple of times. Shadowclan still has a ton of disrespectful apprentices just like Needlpaw. Violetkit is also drawn to this path because none of the other Shadowclan cats seem to care about her. There's another timeskip and the cats are back from their journey and found that nobody was in the gorge anymore. It turns out that Darktail had followed them back to the lake! They're fighting Windclan and Darktail's group is run off into a part of territory they don't claim. Furzepelt is heavily injured and dies as well as one of the last lives that Onestar has. (Furzepelt was Heathertail's apprentice and trained in the place of No Stars during Omen of the Stars) Due to this fight, Onestar becomes paranoid and closes his clan off from the others for a period of time.
Violetkit is then started to be taken at night to meet with Darktail's group along with Needlepaw and Sleekpaw for a little while instead of going to meet Twigkit. They both end up getting in trouble for this twice, before Darktail's group tries to bribe their way into Shadowclan to no avail. However, the apprentices along with Violetkit decides to join Darktail's group. This doesn't last for long when now Violetpaw sees the violence between Rain and Darktail and goes back to Shadowclan. There's some drama about yellowcough sickness in Shadowclan for awhile and they can't go get the herbs because Onestar won't let them. The medicine cats go sneak the herb from out of windclan anyway one night, but not before the sickness takes lives in Shadowclan. At the end of the book, Darktail's group takes over Shadowclan and Violetpaw decides to stay to be with Needtail.
This book is a little bit better than the last one. I find the plot about Darktail's group to be more interesting than just traveling around to find Skyclan's group. Having out of focus characters go do the journey instead of any of our point of view characters was just a much better choice.
Shattered Sky - 4 stars
It's been half a year since I read this book and I just neglected to write a review because I was trying to sort out my feelings on this book. This book pretty much finishes up an arc where they're trying to reintroduce SkyClan to the four clans in the forest. In my other reviews of this series of books so far I've just mentioned feeling disappointed in the route that they're taking to reintroduce SkyClan and that becomes even more obvious when it comes to this book. For a book series about SkyClan, they're barely a focus in these three books. I'm hoping the next three they play a bigger role and they're more in the books. All we have is glimpses of the characters we liked in Firestar's Quest. A lot of them either choose to remain kittypets back at home or die at some point during the journey. It's good we're having a focus on new SkyClan characters, but it's very hard to form a bond with them when they're just not very involved with the plot at this point.
Rereading a summary of these books, I do feel a bit sorry for Violetpaw because she is being manipulated to accept the way of the kin and how they do things. However, there are also moments where she directly goes against them and is just.. surprised that the kin aren't good guys despite having plenty of reasons to know this already?
Darkest Night - 3 stars
Its once again been half a year since I read this book and I just quickly picked this one up after the last one because I wanted to know where the story was going. I didn't know how to feel about this one either after reading it. There's a lot of traveling and sorting out the aftermath of the last book in this one. I don't enjoy Twigpaw putting off her warrior ceremony to go to SkyClan and then to just decide to come back to Thunderclan. I'm sure it's important to the next books that Twigpaw and Finpaw are both Thunderclan cats, but it's frustrating to read it after the back and forth Violetshine did in the last books. The most interesting part of this book doesn't even come around until the end of the book.
River of Fire - 2 stars
I kind of expected this book to be a bridge between Tigerheart's Shadow and to the main series, so I'm not surprised that that is exactly what it is. The main events are as follows - Struggles with reuniting the clans after the events of the previous books with Darktail's kin, (Riverclan isolated themselves to heal and Rowanclaw not wanting to lead anymore and having Shadowclan join Skyclan) Twigbranch and Finleap adjusting to life in Thunderclan after leaving Skyclan (I'm glad this isn't something that is a huge focus of this one considering the last few books focused on that a lot.) Sickness in Thunderclan that only kills Briarlight, An Alderheart romance with a kittypet called Velvet that joined when fires were spreading during the big storm of this book, Rowanclaw dies trying to protect Yarrowleaf's kits and Tawnypelt, and finally a follow up to Dovewing and Tigerstar coming back to the clans.
All in all, this book could have easily been skipped and you wouldn't miss out much plot-wise. I feel like it's a waste to have such catastrophic events happen and the only deaths we know about is Rowanclaw and Briarlight. It feels like they just needed something to happen to explain Rowanclaw's off screen death from Tigerheart's Shadow and they didn't feel like Briarlight had a further purpose in the books. Briarlight's death was sad to read about, but I feel like they just could have done more with this book. I also don't think the romance between Alderheart and Velvet was that compelling to read about. Once again, they've explored all they've needed to when it comes to forbidden medicine cat romance plots. It's done to death. It just feels like needless extra padding. I've really liked these characters over the years and I'm startling to like the new ones, but this book just feels like it could have had more.
Hopefully the next book makes all the meandering around worth it, but I have a feeling the next book is just gonna be how they needed Tigerstar around to defeat the rest of the kin and Sleekwhisker for plot reasons and only Tigerstar can do it for plot reasons.. So far most of A Vision of Shadows is just not getting to where they need with the plot and the next book is just what they couldn't fit into that one because they needed all the extra padding and meandering. They've really stretched these books more than they need to be stretched and it's pretty disappointing.
The Raging Storm
Honestly? I weirdly enjoyed how crazy this book ended up being at the end. I will say that in earlier books I was concerned that Skyclan would just kind of get glossed over in the future books, but in this book and the last one the plot is mainly focused on Skyclan cats so you really learn to love some of the characters introduced. Most 0f it in this book involves whether or not Skyclan will stay at the lake, so I'm hoping in future books they'll have more room to grow and shine. The clans having this attitude of 'ehh it doesn't really effect me' doesn't really fit the tone of this series though. Other series I would have had no trouble believing the clans don't care what happens in a clan if it isn't their own, but like they just had Darktail's rebellion and were proven they needed Skyclan to help them out. I don't understand why they had such a drastic shift of opinion in this book so fast.
The two prophecies in this book were very literal. I don't really care for that because I found it more interesting when there's a possibility for error in the interpretation of the vision. A dream about a storm and Shadowkit drowning.. hmm wonder what that means? Oh shadowkit is drowning and there's a storm that's lasted a few days? Can't be related. It's so ridiculous. I think it's so crazy that Shadowkit was told to basically drown himself by his ancestors so that the clans would reunite, but this wouldn't be the first time they gave so much responsibility to a cat so young.. I think I mostly just find it crazy because at that point the clans had all decided to reunite so there just wasn't a point in that!
There's also the plot line of Juniperclaw poisoning Skyclan and he's like yeah I did that! But as soon as there's any consequences for his actions he feels remorse and dies saving Violetshine and Shadowkit.. fells like it came out of nowhere and they had no other idea of how to save them. What also came out of nowhere was Finleap's redemption! He treats Twigbranch like garbage in this book because she's not ready to have his kits yet, but no worries! He helped save Leafstar so no big deal he's suddenly seen the error of his ways because he is a hero now and not because Twigbranch said anything that made him change his mind.. yikes. I was honestly scared when Alderheart mentioned how much bigger Twigbranch was at the end of the book because I thought they were gonna walk back on that and also have Twigbranch pregnant now. It wouldn't be the first time they wrote a plotline that got thrown out the window.. (Fernsong convincing Ivypool to have kits because he would take care of them himself instead of her and then only Ivypool being seen in the nursery after that point...) I'm glad to learn from future novels that isn't the case for Twigbranch thank god.. This whole plot line just wasn't like Finleap in earlier books and when I think of Finleap I'm just gonna forget this ever happened honestly.
What's also crazy is how Pebbleshine showed up again as a ghost and the only thing she had to say was "Oh Violetshine don't you know? You're pregnant!" Like when was there time for that in this book? There was one stressful thing happening after the next. I feel like Tree would have been too stressed to be close enough to Violetshine for that to happen. Also there was the time between Skyclan leaving and coming back. Wouldn't she already be showing more signs than just being grouchy? No one noticed a thing? Really? So very crazy. Also what about Sleekwhisker? She's just still alive out there somewhere I guess, but it doesn't really matter! Who cares that she betrayed her clan and killed her leader I guess. I don't think I really enjoyed A Vision of Shadows as a book series at all. I do like some of the characters, but it's just so messy and needed more time to be written.
Thunder and Shadow - 5 stars
Shattered Sky - 4 stars
Darkest Night - 3 stars
River of Fire - 2 stars
The Raging Storm - 4 stars
The Apprentice's Quest - 2 stars
I'm definitely in the camp of those who think that after Bramblestar's Storm it would have been a good opportunity to start fresh with brand new characters, brand new setting, and maybe new clans all together.. However I don't think people were that sold on the Dawn of the Clans series and that's why that didn't end up happening. There's no changing this and it's already happened, but I think that's definitely something important to note.
This series is centered on finding SkyClan and bringing that clan to the new lake territory. As well as all the changes and adjustments that will happen as a result of having a fifth clan back in the territories. I've always enjoyed reading the different stories centering around the SkyClan cats, however now that they're at the lake I feel like they'll just be another clan and won't be as interesting. One of the most interesting aspects were the daylight warriors and I feel like we all knew going into this that they just wouldn't make the journey with the rest of the SkyClan cats. Which is just disappointing..
The main character of this book is Sparkpaw, Alderpaw, and Needlepaw. It's quickly determined that Alderpaw just doesn't have a knack for being a warrior and just kinda.. ends up a medicine cat apprentice. He's needed for the journey to find SkyClan, but I feel like a better way to go about this is him just having a natural want to be a medicine cat. Maybe Squirrelflight could have visited Leafpool often and that's why he could be interested in being one instead? He's also not very good at remembering herbs that well in the beginning. I just wonder what happened to StarClan finding the cats they need for the prophecy such as The New Prophecy books like none of those cats were forced to be medicine cats? It also just isn't fair to compare Alderpaw to Sparkpaw since she just seems naturally good at being a warrior either. Maybe it would just be a bit more interesting if certain cats just aren't as good at catching say sparrows compared to their other clanmates. I'm just starting to find it hard to believe that every warrior in the clans are just naturally good at everything..
The next part of the book explores how cats in ShadowClan are just super disrespectful and don't really care about most of the stuff that the other clan cats do. I feel like this plotline just was a bit rushed. It's also never explained why they are like this either. There's just been nothing hinting at them developing to being that way such as having mentors that are a bit jaded to the warrior life? It's just suddenly there. They're just like that and it never gets explained. I also find it hard to believe that they're like this just because of Rowanstar's leadership. There's been nothing hinted at him being like a lazy leader or something. Needlepaw is also one of these disrespectful apprentices.
Finally, Alderpaw is revealed the secret about the SkyClan cats from Sandstorm and honestly I'm happy they remembered her being part of that journey. She also decides to go with them, which makes sense to me because she's the only cat that would know how to go there in the first place? I don't know why so many people have an issue with her going besides the fact that she's an elder. No one could have predicted how wrong the last leg of the journey had gone. Sandstorm slowly succumbs to a leg injury and ends up passing away. Along the journey, they also discover that needlepaw had followed them and decided to go along with them. Sandstorm's death was pretty sad, but Alderpaw is supposed to be a medicine cat and he just.. never used any of those skills to help her from dying. I know Sandstorm is a stubborn cat that would refuse help, but also Alderpaw is a medicine cat and should have a bit more authority as the one whose leading this whole thing..
We meet Darktail who has taken over the SkyClan gorge and it turns out he's the cat that drove them all off. Needlepaw has also taken an interest in one of Darktail's cats Rain, but they end up separated from each other after Darktail's motives were revealed. He kills Mistfeather who was a SkyClan warrior (Introduced in this book and has brief appearances in Hawkwing's Journey. He's not a cat we've been introduced to before) After that they leave and are seperated in a river. With Needlepaw, Alderpaw discovers two kits who had been abandoned by their mother. They call them Violetkit and Twigkit due to the nest they found the kits in. Alderpaw asks Needlepaw not to tell Shadowclan about the kits, but due to the prophecy she believes that Shadowclan should also have a right to the kits they believe will one day save the clans... again. At the gathering the two are separated into separate clans and Alderpaw believes this to be a wrong decision.
Overall, I find this book to be interesting due to Darktail, but I also find some plot elements to be very frustrating..
Thunder and Shadow - 5 stars
There's a bit of a timeskip from the first book to this second book. Twigkit is growing up and Spiderleg has just.. offhandedly mentioned dying of greencough. Rowanstar ends up visiting the camp because Littlecloud is slowly dying. It's decided that Leafpool will go over to Shadowclan and help train Puddlekit into being a medicine cat apprentice. Thankfully, Puddlekit turns out to be a right choice of medicine cat, but again there's that trend of nobody wanting to be a medicine cat!!! I'm sick to death of this plot point please let it die. If nobody wants to be a medicine cat then there wouldn't be any!!
Bramblestar sends more cats to fail to find SkyClan, but in the mean time Alderpaw and Needlepaw help Twigkit and Violetkit to meet a couple of times. Shadowclan still has a ton of disrespectful apprentices just like Needlpaw. Violetkit is also drawn to this path because none of the other Shadowclan cats seem to care about her. There's another timeskip and the cats are back from their journey and found that nobody was in the gorge anymore. It turns out that Darktail had followed them back to the lake! They're fighting Windclan and Darktail's group is run off into a part of territory they don't claim. Furzepelt is heavily injured and dies as well as one of the last lives that Onestar has. (Furzepelt was Heathertail's apprentice and trained in the place of No Stars during Omen of the Stars) Due to this fight, Onestar becomes paranoid and closes his clan off from the others for a period of time.
Violetkit is then started to be taken at night to meet with Darktail's group along with Needlepaw and Sleekpaw for a little while instead of going to meet Twigkit. They both end up getting in trouble for this twice, before Darktail's group tries to bribe their way into Shadowclan to no avail. However, the apprentices along with Violetkit decides to join Darktail's group. This doesn't last for long when now Violetpaw sees the violence between Rain and Darktail and goes back to Shadowclan. There's some drama about yellowcough sickness in Shadowclan for awhile and they can't go get the herbs because Onestar won't let them. The medicine cats go sneak the herb from out of windclan anyway one night, but not before the sickness takes lives in Shadowclan. At the end of the book, Darktail's group takes over Shadowclan and Violetpaw decides to stay to be with Needtail.
This book is a little bit better than the last one. I find the plot about Darktail's group to be more interesting than just traveling around to find Skyclan's group. Having out of focus characters go do the journey instead of any of our point of view characters was just a much better choice.
Shattered Sky - 4 stars
It's been half a year since I read this book and I just neglected to write a review because I was trying to sort out my feelings on this book. This book pretty much finishes up an arc where they're trying to reintroduce SkyClan to the four clans in the forest. In my other reviews of this series of books so far I've just mentioned feeling disappointed in the route that they're taking to reintroduce SkyClan and that becomes even more obvious when it comes to this book. For a book series about SkyClan, they're barely a focus in these three books. I'm hoping the next three they play a bigger role and they're more in the books. All we have is glimpses of the characters we liked in Firestar's Quest. A lot of them either choose to remain kittypets back at home or die at some point during the journey. It's good we're having a focus on new SkyClan characters, but it's very hard to form a bond with them when they're just not very involved with the plot at this point.
Rereading a summary of these books, I do feel a bit sorry for Violetpaw because she is being manipulated to accept the way of the kin and how they do things. However, there are also moments where she directly goes against them and is just.. surprised that the kin aren't good guys despite having plenty of reasons to know this already?
Darkest Night - 3 stars
Its once again been half a year since I read this book and I just quickly picked this one up after the last one because I wanted to know where the story was going. I didn't know how to feel about this one either after reading it. There's a lot of traveling and sorting out the aftermath of the last book in this one. I don't enjoy Twigpaw putting off her warrior ceremony to go to SkyClan and then to just decide to come back to Thunderclan. I'm sure it's important to the next books that Twigpaw and Finpaw are both Thunderclan cats, but it's frustrating to read it after the back and forth Violetshine did in the last books. The most interesting part of this book doesn't even come around until the end of the book.
River of Fire - 2 stars
I kind of expected this book to be a bridge between Tigerheart's Shadow and to the main series, so I'm not surprised that that is exactly what it is. The main events are as follows - Struggles with reuniting the clans after the events of the previous books with Darktail's kin, (Riverclan isolated themselves to heal and Rowanclaw not wanting to lead anymore and having Shadowclan join Skyclan) Twigbranch and Finleap adjusting to life in Thunderclan after leaving Skyclan (I'm glad this isn't something that is a huge focus of this one considering the last few books focused on that a lot.) Sickness in Thunderclan that only kills Briarlight, An Alderheart romance with a kittypet called Velvet that joined when fires were spreading during the big storm of this book, Rowanclaw dies trying to protect Yarrowleaf's kits and Tawnypelt, and finally a follow up to Dovewing and Tigerstar coming back to the clans.
All in all, this book could have easily been skipped and you wouldn't miss out much plot-wise. I feel like it's a waste to have such catastrophic events happen and the only deaths we know about is Rowanclaw and Briarlight. It feels like they just needed something to happen to explain Rowanclaw's off screen death from Tigerheart's Shadow and they didn't feel like Briarlight had a further purpose in the books. Briarlight's death was sad to read about, but I feel like they just could have done more with this book. I also don't think the romance between Alderheart and Velvet was that compelling to read about. Once again, they've explored all they've needed to when it comes to forbidden medicine cat romance plots. It's done to death. It just feels like needless extra padding. I've really liked these characters over the years and I'm startling to like the new ones, but this book just feels like it could have had more.
Hopefully the next book makes all the meandering around worth it, but I have a feeling the next book is just gonna be how they needed Tigerstar around to defeat the rest of the kin and Sleekwhisker for plot reasons and only Tigerstar can do it for plot reasons.. So far most of A Vision of Shadows is just not getting to where they need with the plot and the next book is just what they couldn't fit into that one because they needed all the extra padding and meandering. They've really stretched these books more than they need to be stretched and it's pretty disappointing.
The Raging Storm
Honestly? I weirdly enjoyed how crazy this book ended up being at the end. I will say that in earlier books I was concerned that Skyclan would just kind of get glossed over in the future books, but in this book and the last one the plot is mainly focused on Skyclan cats so you really learn to love some of the characters introduced. Most 0f it in this book involves whether or not Skyclan will stay at the lake, so I'm hoping in future books they'll have more room to grow and shine. The clans having this attitude of 'ehh it doesn't really effect me' doesn't really fit the tone of this series though. Other series I would have had no trouble believing the clans don't care what happens in a clan if it isn't their own, but like they just had Darktail's rebellion and were proven they needed Skyclan to help them out. I don't understand why they had such a drastic shift of opinion in this book so fast.
The two prophecies in this book were very literal. I don't really care for that because I found it more interesting when there's a possibility for error in the interpretation of the vision. A dream about a storm and Shadowkit drowning.. hmm wonder what that means? Oh shadowkit is drowning and there's a storm that's lasted a few days? Can't be related. It's so ridiculous. I think it's so crazy that Shadowkit was told to basically drown himself by his ancestors so that the clans would reunite, but this wouldn't be the first time they gave so much responsibility to a cat so young.. I think I mostly just find it crazy because at that point the clans had all decided to reunite so there just wasn't a point in that!
There's also the plot line of Juniperclaw poisoning Skyclan and he's like yeah I did that! But as soon as there's any consequences for his actions he feels remorse and dies saving Violetshine and Shadowkit.. fells like it came out of nowhere and they had no other idea of how to save them. What also came out of nowhere was Finleap's redemption! He treats Twigbranch like garbage in this book because she's not ready to have his kits yet, but no worries! He helped save Leafstar so no big deal he's suddenly seen the error of his ways because he is a hero now and not because Twigbranch said anything that made him change his mind.. yikes. I was honestly scared when Alderheart mentioned how much bigger Twigbranch was at the end of the book because I thought they were gonna walk back on that and also have Twigbranch pregnant now. It wouldn't be the first time they wrote a plotline that got thrown out the window.. (Fernsong convincing Ivypool to have kits because he would take care of them himself instead of her and then only Ivypool being seen in the nursery after that point...) I'm glad to learn from future novels that isn't the case for Twigbranch thank god.. This whole plot line just wasn't like Finleap in earlier books and when I think of Finleap I'm just gonna forget this ever happened honestly.
What's also crazy is how Pebbleshine showed up again as a ghost and the only thing she had to say was "Oh Violetshine don't you know? You're pregnant!" Like when was there time for that in this book? There was one stressful thing happening after the next. I feel like Tree would have been too stressed to be close enough to Violetshine for that to happen. Also there was the time between Skyclan leaving and coming back. Wouldn't she already be showing more signs than just being grouchy? No one noticed a thing? Really? So very crazy. Also what about Sleekwhisker? She's just still alive out there somewhere I guess, but it doesn't really matter! Who cares that she betrayed her clan and killed her leader I guess. I don't think I really enjoyed A Vision of Shadows as a book series at all. I do like some of the characters, but it's just so messy and needed more time to be written.
June 15, 2024
second worst book ever
after the sun trail ofc
oh god I hate this
after the sun trail ofc
oh god I hate this
November 17, 2021
An exciting and adventurous tale about wonderful feline warriors. These are my favorite books. Erin Hunter is one of the best authors I’ve ever read!!
December 29, 2024
I read the whole series in maybe a month? Definitely engaging and it’s refreshing after reading two series with the same cast of characters.
But the apprentice’s quest is boring and stale, Alderpaw is such an annoying main protagonist, and we have to listen to him the whole time, he gets better later when he becomes a basic medicine cat character.
I loved Violetshine and Twigbranch’s stories in the first 3 books and even a bit after, but after that it only focused on their relationships with their mates, and that was annoying because you have two fleshed out interesting characters and you reduce them to what every other molly in the series ends up as; A mother.
I love Violetshine so much but i raged at the last book, ending her entire narrative with her personality being “i’m a mother now” is annoying and frankly misogynistic.
Justice for my girls Twigbranch and Violetshine, also justice for Needletail, Alderheart and Sparkpelt can kick rocks though, atleast Sparkpelt is interesting.
But the apprentice’s quest is boring and stale, Alderpaw is such an annoying main protagonist, and we have to listen to him the whole time, he gets better later when he becomes a basic medicine cat character.
I loved Violetshine and Twigbranch’s stories in the first 3 books and even a bit after, but after that it only focused on their relationships with their mates, and that was annoying because you have two fleshed out interesting characters and you reduce them to what every other molly in the series ends up as; A mother.
I love Violetshine so much but i raged at the last book, ending her entire narrative with her personality being “i’m a mother now” is annoying and frankly misogynistic.
Justice for my girls Twigbranch and Violetshine, also justice for Needletail, Alderheart and Sparkpelt can kick rocks though, atleast Sparkpelt is interesting.
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July 3, 2022
The ending left me now curious why the next arc is titled Broken Code. All throughout I could see why but this ending leads me to believe all the clans have finally learned how to work together & live peacefully. I'm happy for Tree & Violetshine. I am curious if Twigbranch will have kits with Finleap. I also think there are good lessons in all of the books about relationships. Part of me feels like they can still be loyal to their clan while they choose to be. But I don't think it's fair to force not to love just b/c you were born somewhere.
May 31, 2025
Darktail, he’s such a brilliant character. Being onestars son, taking over the forest with such hate. Feeding into shadowclans apprentices want of change against rowanstar.
Needletail and alderheart god I love you guys, they’re so so cute. himbo alderheart real.
Twigbranch I LOVE HER. violetshine, not as much…. mainly because of her controversial husband tree. But rootspring coming of it makes it fine
Needletail and alderheart god I love you guys, they’re so so cute. himbo alderheart real.
Twigbranch I LOVE HER. violetshine, not as much…. mainly because of her controversial husband tree. But rootspring coming of it makes it fine
January 7, 2021
GO READ THESE NOW ALL OF THEM GOOOOO
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January 3, 2022Overall this arc was a bit bland. I need context to why TigerStar left, and its just a bit long and drawn out at points. But i'm still reading them so that has to mean something.
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July 16, 2025mwah chef kiss too I got these for my.borthday…!!!
June 3, 2025
tree is such a vibe yess
September 3, 2024
Quick and easy read. Lots of small mistakes throughout the series, but that is to expect with quick releases. I read these books in Norwegian, so I suppose there were even more mistakes than in the original language. Definitively childrens books, but engaging enough for a grownup as well. Plowed through the whole series in a couple of months.
May 17, 2018
This book is not like most of the books I've to read what I mean by this is that it's not about a historical event or about someones journey. It's a fully fictional book which is a little bit easier to read because it's fiction which means that the story can take a drastic turn and not be that much of a big deal because its not real so it can take sudden turns.
Fiction is just a little bit more enjoyable for me who dosen't particularly like nonfiction books.The man reason I find fiction books easier to read is because it is more random to me and I enjoy books like that. Overall I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fiction and cats.
Fiction is just a little bit more enjoyable for me who dosen't particularly like nonfiction books.The man reason I find fiction books easier to read is because it is more random to me and I enjoy books like that. Overall I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fiction and cats.
March 13, 2019
Honestly, the books weren't bad. They weren't very good either, just average. I wouldn't recommend it for new fans to the series, but older fans could probably enjoy it more because they know how these books are written.
In this series, the pacing was all over the place and new characters were being added left and right. It's like the authors had too many ideas for one story arch and tried to cut everything down to fit it into a 250-page book.
In this series, the pacing was all over the place and new characters were being added left and right. It's like the authors had too many ideas for one story arch and tried to cut everything down to fit it into a 250-page book.
March 12, 2021
While still a great series, it wasn't quite the same as the previous series have been.
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