Spotfur's Rebellion

Warriors Novellas #20

by Erin Hunter

What made Spotfur risk everything to defy her Clan's deputy?

Genres: Fantasy, Novella, Middle Grade, Animals, Fiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2021

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

[lion ♡]

nice but just a replay of half the broken code

[finnegan macaulers]

i am so biased because i love spotfur and stemleaf but whooo cares i never claimed to be giving objective reviews. the little tidbits of her "childhood" so to speak were fun and i thought the way the first chapter of the novella mirrored the bramblestar fight was interesting. stemleaf was willing to take the fall for what he believed but more importantly for spotfur, if he believed what she was doing was right. god, spotstem make me sick (positive).

i can't speak on any plot holes this novella caused since my memory of the broken code is spotty, half because i read it three years ago and half because i never actually finished it. i only read this to see more spotfur and i got what i wanted.

[Rachel]

April 2021 Oooh, I loved this one. I didn't expect to like Spotfur so much, but I honestly love her. It was fun to read about her past and get to know her--and through her, Stemleaf--better. It gave some really good context to the main plot, especially regarding the rebels' mistrust of Bristlefrost. Stemleaf's death actually brought me to tears this time around. Very good novella; Spotfur is definitely one of my favorites now.

[Jasper]

I like Spotfur and Stemleaf, but this book was unnecessary. It was supposed to show why Spotfur and Stemleaf decided to attack the Imposter in Bramblestar's body, going behind the backs of the other Rebels. However, we already knew why they did that and this books adds nothing to the story, and serves no purpose.

Also, it is wrapped up a little too fast, so it looks as if Spotfur gets over Stemleaf's death very quickly.

[Aubri]

I feel like most of the book was a drag. But I really liked how it fleshed out Stem x Spot more. In the main arcs it just seemed so sudden, but now I like it more. It was depressing when Stemleaf died and I felt for Spotfur's loneliness. I like how Squirrelflight comforted her in a motherly way.

[LM]

Spotfur’s Rebellion was quite the average Warriors novella but the first material in the series that I liked in a while. Like the name suggests, this novella follows Spotfur, starting again with her as an apprentice up to her conspiring against Brambelstar in the course of The Broken Code – if you’ve read this one, you already know how this plot will end. We have some small moments that I liked, like the section around Flipkit. Also, I enjoyed the snowy and rainy settings here.

It’s a surprise but I actually liked Spotpaw/Spotfur. It’s so funny how she’s always doing mischief as an apprentice. I appreciate that for once, a female cat doesn’t hate the other female cats. Here, this is Bristlefrost. I was still annoyed though how much she’s focussed on Stempaw as an apprentice. Another thing about the characters that I liked was that Fernsong actually cared for his kits here how he planned to.

As a last note, the German translation has so many mistakes which is so unfortunate. Even the translators don’t put as much care into the series as they used to.

[Fee-Anna]

Punktfell war einer meiner Lieblingscharaktere in der letzten Staffel, daher habe ich mich sehr über dieses Short Adventure gefreut. Anfangs sehr süß mit der Annährung zwischen Punktfell und Zweigblatt wie auch kleinen Szenen mit dem alten Brombeerstern, geht es dann schnell in die Haupthandlung der letzten Staffel, die hier schlicht nochmal aus Sicht eines anderen Charakters beleuchtet wird. Also eher langweilig und doppelt gemoppelt das Ganze. Da hätte man doch aus Punktfells Leben sicher eine interessantere, unbekannte Phase auswählen können für ihr eigenes Short Adventure, oder ?!

[MacKenzie]

I like Spotfur so it was nice to see a book from her perspective, however most of the book is repeated scenes. I did like her character growth, though I think it would have been better to not make her rebellious for the sake of it. It makes her rebel group seem like a game. I did enjoy the Stemleaf and Spotfur moments though :)

[Ikaitana Torres]

3 stars
This book wasn't bad but again it was a novella so nothing much happened. It was kinda repetitive of what had already happen in other books I don't think it was necessary. I thought getting a deeper dive into Spotfur's and Stemleaf's relationship was kinda cool, but other than that this book was kinda just there.

[Leona Jasmin]

Spotfur's Rebellion felt like it was published a little too soon after the first half of the Broken Code to be fully enjoyable. I really like Spotfur's character; she feels like one of the most developed side-characters in a while. But after the first few chapters, it just felt like a reiteration of books I read only recently, just from a different perspective.

[Tiffany]

spotfur is a testament to what makes the warriors series what it is. I want to see more books that really flesh out the life of a background character 💖 she's a great step towards female characters not losing all of their personality after becoming a Mother!!

[Angela Brown]

This book was okay. Most of it was repeated scenes, and so it got a little boring at times. I did like seeing more of Spotfur’s childhood (especially her saving Flipkit and helping find Thriftpaw) and more of her relationship with Stemleaf.

[Krys]

4 stars

[Brinley]

I won't say this added anything to the story, but it was entertaining enough

[Lace Nicole]

bristlefrost annoyed me in the original thinking"whys he like her whats so great abt her" basically, like bro he was bestfriends with her for a long time and you were irrelevant.

[Maya]

DNF/10

[Willow Zimmerman]

Waste of time.

[Eirlys]

I love Spotfur, but this novella felt a little unnecessary. It was interesting to see how she’s grown but it didn’t add much to the overall story. Not an amazing book, but still a Warriors book.

[Pooj]

i think spotfur is the embodiment of adhd

3.25 stars rounded down

[Niffty]

-i do like Spotfur and seeing things from her point of view
-by a certain point it was retelling event that we already know about

[Mathi]

Punktfell zählt nach diesem Buch definitiv zu meinen Lieblingscharakteren.