Donnerschlag

Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #2

by Erin Hunter, Anja Hansen-Schmidt (Translator)

Die Katzen haben endlich eine neue Heimat gefunden. Doch das Zerwürfnis der Brüder Wolkenhimmel und Grauer Flug hat auch die Gruppe in zwei feindliche Lager gespalten. Ein junger Kater steht zwischen den Fronten und muss sich der schwierigsten Entscheidung seines Lebens stellen.

Wolkenhimmel verwehrt jeder Katze, die krank oder schwach ist, den Zutritt zu seinem Wald. Er verstößt sogar seinen eigenen Sohn Donner, der unter der Obhut von Grauer Flug bei den Katzen im Moor aufwächst. Donner ist hin und hergerissen zwischen der Loyalität für Grauer Flug und der Sehnsucht nach seinem richtigen Vater. Als eine verheerende Katastrophe die Waldkatzen heimsucht, kann ihnen nur Donner helfen

Genres: Fantasy, Animals, Middle Grade, Fiction, Childrens, Cats, Adventure

314 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 5, 2013

About the author

Erin 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.

Reviews

[hal · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent addition to the Warriors series!

I was a bit hesitant to read this after the first Dawn of the Clans book. The Sun Trail was maybe a three-star read for me. But Thunder Rising was infinitely better. Firstly, there's more action. In the first book, it's just a lot of journeying and survival and stuff. Which isn't bad, but not always interesting. This had a lot more action going on and is therefore more interesting and therefore better.

Clear Sky has got to be the best (or is it worst, because he's so creepy) Warriors villain to date. You think Tigerclaw, Brokenstar, Hawk Frost, Mapleshade were bad? Meet Clear Sky. I think what makes him so awesomely scary is that somewhere in that twisted head of his he truly believes he's doing the right thing. You see, Tigerclaw may have been scary but he was just one-sidedly evil. Clear Sky is more complex and thus a better villain.

I also like that there's more character development. I thought in the first book, Gray Wing was kind of bland. But we see a lot more of him in this book and I'm starting to really like him. I also like Thunder, I can tell he's a character I will really like.

And the instalove that was between Gray Wing and Storm in the first book is replaced by the romance between Gray Wing and Turtle Tail, which I (and I don't usually say this about romances) definitely approve of. Gray Wing and Turtle Tail. I definitely ship them. Because there is absolutely no instalove here. It's a romance that slowly grew over time from friendship to love. And I definitely like that.

Essential, every single problem I had with the first book is resolved in Thunder Rising. So why not five stars? I'm stingy with five star ratings. Sorry :( But overall, I really enjoyed Thunder Rising and highly recommend it.

Now, where is the sequel? I MUST READ IT.

[Mikayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first time I read a Warriors book I was 9 year old, and these books made me fall in love with reading.

Now at 15 I continue to read these books despite them obviously being geared towards children the same age as I was when I began my Warriors journey. This summer, before reading the Sun Trail, I re-read the entire main series and still found myself able to enjoy the wonderful world Erin Hunter has created.

Unfortunately, I seem to have set my expectation too high for this latest book. The problem wasn't that it was geared towards middle school children; it was that the writing was bad. Especially in the middle, I noticed a switching from 3rd person to 1st person in what was supposed to be thoughts. It's perfectly okay to use 1st person in thoughts when the rest of the novel is in 3rd person, but to sometimes have thoughts 3rd person and sometimes 1st? I was confused.


The story itself was good. Gray Wing continues to train his kin, Thunder, in the ways of the moor despite Thunder's longing to be in the forest with his father who disowned him. As tensions on the moor and in the forest rise, bloodshed is imminent. The cats of the moor try to usurp Tall Shadows and place Gray Wing, a cat with no interest in power, as leader. It's only after a fire in the forest that Tall Shadow makes a show of power by placing Gray Wing as the new leader on the moor. The decision however comes at a bad time because Gray Wing inhaled large amounts of smoke during the fire making him unable to hunt or fight. To put Gray Wing in an even harder position Clear Wing invites his son, Thunder, back to the forest. There Thunder discovers the true, bloodthirsty, side to his father.

The dawn of the clans is coming, but if the original 2 writers in the quartet that is Erin hunter don't re-take their series I might not be able to read through to the end.

[Noella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ik ben weer helemaal mee met de avonturen van deze 'nieuwe' katten. Er gebeurt weer heel veel in dit boek. Het wordt duidelijk dat niet alle katten tevreden zijn met hun nieuwe leven in de holte op de hei.
Heldere hemel gaat met een deel katten in het bos wonen, en na een tijdje drijft hij de splitsing wel heel ver: hij begint zijn territorium te verdedigen met geweld en duld geen 'nutteloze' katten meer in zijn groep. We kunnen nog niet spreken van echte clans, er zijn o.a. nog geen officiële commandanten of medicijnkatten. Ook het leiderschap wordt wel eens betwist.
De heidekatten zijn veel vredelievender dan de boskatten, ze nemen gewonde katten op en verzorgen ze, en vinden wel taken voor hen ook als ze niet meer helemaal herstellen in hun vroegere glorie.
Heldere Hemel daarentegen is echt meedogenloos, zeer tot verdriet van Grijze Vleugel, zijn broer, die bij de heidekatten woont. Een belangrijke rol begint ook Donder te spelen, het zoontje van Heldere Hemel, dat door hem verstoten was, en door Grijze Vleugel werd opgevoed. Maar later als de jonge kat het potentieel toont om uit te groeien tot een sterke kater, overhaalt Heldere Hemel Donder om zich bij hem in het bos aan te sluiten. Eerst is Donder hier heel gelukkig mee, en heeft Grijze Vleugel veel verdriet, maar het gedrag van Heldere Hemel stoot zijn zoon meer en meer af, en hij besluit Grijze Vleugel te gaan vragen of hij terug bij hun mag komen wonen.
Ik vind dit een goede opbouw voor het begin van de structuur die de latere clans zullen aannemen, want in dit boek wordt duidelijk dat de voormalige Bergkatten niet langer allemaal samen leven, en de verwachting is dat de splitsing zich nog verder zal uitbreiden.
Deze reeks is een interessante prequel van de hele Warrior Cats serie.

[Rakean · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was so excited when I got this book. I read it until it was like, 11 something PM. And wow, this book has a lot of things changing around. The key characters for the clans are popping up everywhere, but I thought that River Ripple's appearance was just kind of random and it didn't go too smoothly with that.
Anyway, an awesome book! I wonder what happens to Thunder and Frost. They'll probably get rejected by the cats on the moor. Things are getting... more to the point of war. I really hope the next book will quench my thirst for suspense, doing things (not much happened in this book, which was disappointing, but it was still amazing), and some bloodshed.
I did not think that the third person to first person change during thoughts was confusing. Things are pretty empty here in the Dawn of the Clans, things are changing. It's really awesome to see how things are coming together, things like that. Awesome. I'm missing a little of the ways of the clans yet, and the warrior code. I wonder how those were made up. Waiting for the next book is gonna take ages!

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I didn't plan it this way, but it's Thanksgiving and I just finished a whole-ass book about colonization, let's GOOOOOOO.



Can't help but feel that the Warriors books matured with their readers a bit, because Dawn Of the Clans goes sooooo hard. I thought things might calm down after the traumas of The Sun Trail, but be warned, Thunder Rising is heavy af.

We're in the before-clans time and slowly starting to see how the four groups might eventually form, with their names (wind, shadow, river, thunder) making appearances. Getting the prequel perspective is so integral to understanding that the clan cats we grew to love are the descendants of colonizers! Like, the Erins Hunter really said, Sit in that discomfort, bitches! Because the truth is that cats existed in the forest before the Tribe arrived, and slowly, these "rogue" cats (along with some domesticated ones) appear to be getting exterminated. Genocide can be slow and subtle, and it's unmistakably what's happening here.

In Gray Wing's POV, we have a morally perceptive cat who doesn't want to lead, but everyone wants him to lead. I think he can get there, but true girl-bossing might take a while. Part of what gets in the way is his fraught relationship with his brother, but clarity on that is coming and he'll eventually have to decide to turn his back on Clear Sky if he values self preservation and protecting others he loves. Within his own clan, he will need to stand up to Wind Runner, an *actual* girlboss, and I foresee this causing an eventual break in this group, with the latter forming Wind Clan and Gray Wing forming Thunder Clan. The only question will be which cat goes with which leader.

Thunder is young and conflicted, but shows his strong moral compass and leadership qualities pretty fast...more so than his uncle, Gray Wing. It's hard to fault him for aligning himself with Clear Sky; he's suffered trauma after trauma, with the death of his mom and subsequent disowning by his father. So when said father wants to give him a chance, you expect him to jump at it. It bodes well for him and his future clanmates that Thunder figures out Clear Sky's evilness so quickly and bounces from that toxic af situation - taking with him an injured cat that Clear Sky wanted to leave for dead. I guess we'll find out in the next book if Gray Wing takes him back, but I have little doubt he will, also seeing Thunder was taken advantage of.

Clear Sky is a different kind of villain than Tigerstar, imo. While Tigerstar aspired to controlled totalitarianism, Clear Sky appears to think his actions actually serve the greater good, keeping his group strong and functional. Both require subservience and unquestioning loyalty though, and that becomes difficult when the group discovers Clear Sky's preference only for able-bodied, healthy cats. Given there is no health care in his group (Gray Wing's group has cats who learn herb shit, ushering in the beginnings of the medicine cat role), Clear Sky orders Frost, an injured cat, to be taken into the forest and left to die before he infects the rest of the group. This proves too much for Thunder and he flees with Frost. I wish more cats had stood up and joined him, but I sense we'll see more of them follow suit in future books.

Disability and illness are prevalent, even more so than in the other series, and discrimination comes up a lot. Like the clans, these groups already value their citizens' ability to hunt and fight above all else, and if you can't do that due to injury or sickness, the question becomes, what role can you fill? In Gray Wing's group, we see more productive solutions - Tall Shadow can't lead due to grief, so she becomes more of a counsel for Gray Wing (early deputy role, maybe?); Jagged Peak injures his leg and becomes a caretaker to Turtle Tail's kits. On its face, these are good solutions, even as it also feels problematic to slot sick and disabled cats into certain lesser valued roles. And it's slightly implied that Gray Wing can't effectively lead, due to a cough he develops after the forest fire. I need my asthmatic boy to pull through, yo.

In Dawn Of the Clans, it is rough being a female cat, y'all. Petal loses her brother, Storm dies, Turtle Tail doing that single mom life, BUMBLE'S BLEAK AF DEATH. I have opinions about how Bumble was treated by the forest cats. She essentially comes to Gray Wing's group for help getting out of a domestic violence situation and they turn her down because she's a domesticated cat who wouldn't contribute to the group as a forest cat. That rejection drives her to desperation and she ends up meeting a terrible death, with Clear Sky's help. Where Gray Wing's group is able to find roles for every cat of every ability, they refuse to integrate Bumble into their society, showing, above all else, a prejudice against domestic cats. And like, we get it, y'all think you're badass wild cats who kill their own food, as opposed to pampered kittypets who are overfed property of humans. But damn, this bigotry got a cat killed who didn't deserve to die.

I didn't mention this about the first book, but the bonus scenes at the end are a cool treat that fits especially well into a prequel that intros sooooo many new cats. They're like mini origin stories that help better understand the pasts each cat brings with them to their groups.

Uptick on the gore scale for this book, btw, as there is a fire and a cat definitely gets caught and burned in it (when I say this series matures with its readers...). Can't wait to read more about these colonizing assholes!

[Atlas]

Huh, pretty good but felt a touch like a filler. Nice to have Thunder's point of view for a couple of chapters, and I have a lot of sympathy for Gray Wing.

I can see all the cats coming together with the Clan names (Thunder, Shadow, River, Wind), but I'm not sure who is going to end up where. I was (and still am) convinced that Gray Wing is a Windclan cat at heart, but he's in the "Shadow" camp. Then there's Clear Sky, who's a bit of a power-hungry dick, but is still differentiable from, say, Hawkfrost or Tigerclaw. I thought his clan was going to end up as Thunderclan, but it doesn't look like the books are heading that way.

[Aurora Dimitre]

god damn is clear sky a trashbag

[Willemijn jufwillemijnopallstars · Rating 5 out of 5]

In Donderwolken volgen we Grijze Vleugel (op de cover) en Donder. De bergkatten beginnen eindelijk een beetje te settelen in de nieuwe leefomgeving van het bos en de heide.

Het was weer een spannend avontuur waarin toch veel gebeurde. Vriendschap vind ik toch altijd een grote rol spelen in de Warrior Cats boeken.

Samen met @lilian_beleeft gelezen en samen zitten voorspellen welke katten in welke Clan terecht komen 😂 het is bijvoorbeeld duidelijk dat de katten die van zwemmen houden in de RivierClan zullen komen.

Het volgende boek het Het eerste gevecht, dus we bereiden ons voor 😆

[Pat K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audiobook. This episode continues to tell the story of the rise of the clans. It’s slow to start because we have not yet grown accustomed to the characters. The second half of the book is very fast paced, and the personality traits associated with the four clans start to emerge.

[Jana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spoiler-y Zusammenfassung für mich selbst:

Im Moorlager werden die Rufe nach einem neuen Anführer lauter. Als der Wald brennt, retten die Moorkatzen Wolkenhimmels Gruppe. Die Gruppe zieht kurzzeitig aufs Moor. Als Wolkenhimmels Gruppe das Moor wieder verlässt, schließt sich Donner ihnen an. Nach dem Feuer wird Grau Flug Anführer der Moorkatzen. Wolkenhimmel terrorisiert weiterhin jede Katze in seiner Umgebung, unter anderem lässt er zur Verteidigung seiner Grenzen eine Kätzin töten, die Junge hat. Grauer Flug merkt, dass er durch das Feuer nicht richtig atmen kann und muss als Anführer doch etwas kürzer treten. Dadurch entstehen Spannungen mit Wind(läufer), die offiziell noch nicht zur Gruppe gehört, sich aber wie die Anführerin aufführt. Am Ende verlässt Donner die Gruppe von Wolkenhimmel, nachdem dieser Frost aufgrund einer Verletzung aus der Gruppe geworfen hat.



Wolkenhimmel ist wirklich der schlimmste Charakter jemals 😭 Und die Bücher stellen ja auch gut dar, dass Wolkenhimmels Handlungen schlecht sind, es hat nur einen schlechten Beigeschmack, dass einige seiner Regeln (zb Territorium bewachen/Grenzen aufstellen) später halt in allen Clans bestehen?
Irgendwie ist in dem Buch jetzt auch nicht meeega viel passiert. Dafür war gut zu sehen wie Donner langsam bemerkt wie falsch Wolkenhimmel handelt

[ammi 🫁 · Rating 3 out of 5]

honestly there’s so many good characters in this and they made gray wing and a hyperactive toddler the protagonists

give me river ripple pov, tall shadow pov, clear sky pov, wind pov, literally anybody else pov

this honestly deserved 2 stars but i bumped it up bcs it was pretty entertaining, and by introducing thunder they made gray stripe less annoying by association. like i would’ve ditched gray wing for clear sky too just saying, but thunder really made that his only goal in life

also there’s sa in this book thought you should know 😁

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series just so much!! I’m mad that my new favorite character already DIED, like seriously. But other than that I really love all the warrior cat books and I can’t wait to read the next book!

[Samuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good. Not the best in the series but still good. I highly recommend this series! The library was taking a while to get the book in and then I noticed that It wasn't at the library anymore so I just finished the book that's why it took so much longer than usual!

[Juliette Locktree · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one had a little bit of a slow start compared to the first one. The second half however went pretty fast and I am really excited for the next one!

[Littlebookterror · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this book more than the first. Gray Wing is still growing on me, I did not like his indecisiveness. But the side characters make up for it quite well, Turtle Tail seems more interesting and Thunder has some cool character growth. (Jagged Peak is the poor loser of the group tbh.)

It's interesting to figure who will found which clan.

[demi fiore · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3,5

[Thale · Rating 5 out of 5]

ignorer at eg rate all warriors bøkern 5 stjerna for nostalgi

[Alaina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool!

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gray Wing is annoying. "But he's my brother" yeah dude and he sucks, get over it.

[Niffty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dawn of the Clans: The Sun Trail ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Dawn of the Clans: Thunder Rising ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dawn of the Clans: The First Battle ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dawn of the Clans: The Blazing Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dawn of the Clans: A Forest Divided ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Dawn of the Clans: Path of Stars ⭐️⭐️
Moth Flight's Vision (super edition) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thunderstar's Echo (ebook) legends of the clan ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Shadowstar’s Life (ebook) path of a warrior ⭐️⭐️
Average: 3.278

Before i decided that i was going to reread the warrior’s series in order but i didn’t end up picking the second book at the library. Now i decided to get back on warriors because lately everything i read wasn’t hooking me for some reason.

Reading this reminds me how much i love warriors. The series is a mess but it still has characters that i care for that are trying to survive.

Compare to other books Dawn of the clans is a breath of fresh air. They constantly go against rules of warriors with new characters. “Borders are unnecessary”, “kits can learn to fight”, “no ranks”. “No starclan yet”, “more death”, “groups still developing”, “no prophecies yet”

I don’t care for starclan so it is kinda nice for them to not be present. The same cats usually end up showing up repeatedly and it kinda defeats the purpose of a cat dieing. Also i don’t like “we have to do it because starclan said so”. Especially in omen of the stars when it is revealed that Starclan is not all powerful and can have bad calls. The prophecy meaning debate is not that fun.

In this book the groups split into two: Moor cats and Forest cats. There is tension between the two groups. The first book was mostly a journey and try not to die book. This book gets more action. We got Thunder as a perspective, which is Clear sky’s son. Which is interesting seeing his thoughts about his father.

[Will ⚰️ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

The excitement still carried on from the previous book with the constant cliffhangers at the end of chapters. What can I say? Bumble was robbed, the fact that she wasn’t allowed to join the wild cats because of her origins was just a horrible excuse (compared to similar situations in other arcs) and she ended up DYING from their lack of hospitality.
But as a strong point in this second book, I’m so glad to see Grey Wing becoming a stepdad and the way that his relationship with the kits is portrayed, as well as with Turtle Tail.
To explain the rating, I personally thought that this book lacked something. Unlike the last one which followed the cats from the mountains, this one was more about the growing conflicts between the two camps. Oh and there was a fire for like four chapters (where were the humans to extinguish it??? A forest is burning), that’s pretty much it except the fact that now every cat is suffering and the main character has asthma from smoke following the incident.
As an additional thing I found interesting, this book allowed us to witness the true corruption of Clear Sky, resorting to murder sometimes but still having redeeming qualities.
Really don’t know what to expect in the next book and I can confidently say that I’m excited to read it still. But I’m so glad that the books and the clans are starting to settle and look more like the clans that we know.

[Sarah Bauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book theme song: Hey Brother by Avicii
In which Clear Sky becomes borderline irredeemable.
Clear Sky scares me because I know people like him. People who prioritize what they see as the survival of the group to the exclusion of minority rights. These are the type of people who move to another lunch table when the autistic kid goes to sit with them. Ostracizing and excluding the disabled is so often seen as a nonissue. It's not a nonissue for the people on the receiving end of it. This is why I love the Warrior Cats series, because Clear Sky's actions are portrayed as villainous and not a logical way to ensure the survival of the group. Later in the timeline, the Warrior Code ensures that every cat has a place in the Clan regardless of their hunting ability.

[Italian sauce ;) · Rating 4 out of 5]

(SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE SERIES AS I DO NOT REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN WHAT BOOK)


I love the change between Graywing and Clearsky. Two brothers who have both been through heck and they react completely oppositely. Clearsky acts out of fear. He has to protect what’s his and he will at the cost of anything. Even his son and brother. Graywing on the other hand knows the only way to survive is to HELP each other not compete with each other.

[Ewa · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Louis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely picks up more from the first book

[venus ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Czytało mi się o wiele lepiej od pierwszego tomu. Jeszcze bardziej nienawidzę Nieba Czystego, ale za to zdążyłam polubić Pioruna

[janna · Rating 5 out of 5]

we stan thunder‼️

[Asher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 5/5
Heat level: 0/5

*reread*

[Ada · Rating 4 out of 5]

Świetnie się bawiłam ❤

[Spalony82 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Było świetnie. Dodatek o Rzece Falującej i sama jego postać skradły moje serce. Wietrzna Sprinterka też zapowiada się obiecująco!