Die unerzählten Geschichten

Warriors Novellas #8, 11-12

by Erin Hunter, Petra Knese (Translator)

Drei Short-Adventures voller Geheimnisse über den mutigen DonnerClan in einem Band! Ein starker und mutiger Clan-Gründer. Ein vom SternenClan verfluchter Heiler. Ein von Zweifeln geplagter Anführer, der das Gesetz der Krieger bricht.
In dieser WarriorCats-Edition findest du drei bislang unveröffentlichte, exklusive Geschichten über die Anführer Donnerstern und Kiefernstern und die Heilerkatze Gänsefeder aus dem bekannten DonnerClan. Welche Geheimnisse sie verbergen, welches Schicksal der SternenClan den Katzen auferlegt hat, erfährst du hier. Für Fans und Neueinsteiger der Bestsellerreihe Warrior Cats geeignet.

300 pages, Hardcover

First published August 19, 2020

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

[LM · Rating 4 out of 5]

This German exclusive Warriors novella collection contains three previous published novellas: Thunderstar’s Echo, Goosefeather’s Curse, and Pinestar’s Choice. I come to an average rating of 3.5 stars; surprisingly, none of the stories was really bad and they all centred around interesting characters.

Thunderstar’s Echo: ★★★
I always love to read more of Dawn of the Clans and especially Thunderstar. This novella is quite character driven: Thunderstar is struggling because he realizes that he’s responsible for his whole Clan and needs to protect them but he’s not always able to and not if he can do it.
The plot that was there was not very great and included the typical elements I don’t like in Warriors books: retelling of events from past books, random uncreative animal attacks, and a birthing scene. There was one scene that stood out for me, namely when Thunderstar dies and doubts if he actually has nine lives or if he just will die.

Out of all other characters, I especially love Lighting Tail and I was so mad when he died. At least Thunderstar’s grief was depicted well. But there are other characters that aren’t as great, like Violet Dawn whose only character trait is to be beautiful or Skystar who’s still an idiot, no surprises here.

Goosefeather’s Curse: : ★★★.5
I don’t know why I should honestly care for Goosefeather and if anyone asked for a novella about him, but here we go. Goosefeather has it really hard in life: He can look into the future and see the fates of cats but can’t change them and can only watch, he became a medicine cat against his will (haven’t seen this trope before lmao) and gets bullied and treated unfairly because he’s different than other cats.

Again, we have some random animal attack and a birthing scene. Also, the timeline just makes no sense. Barely any times has passed since Mapleshade’s Vengeance but Bluestar was already born; I always thought the events around Mapleshade happened longer ago, but oh well. I also find it weird that Mapleshade plays a big role here again since I thought she would only haunt RiverClan/Crookedstar’s family.

Pinestar’s Choice : ★★★★
This was my favorite novella of this collection. I just loved to see a different perspective on kittypets and twolegs which does not just discredit them as stupid but shows them in a positive light. The focus is on Pinestar, the famous ThunderClan that leaves his Clan and his son Tigerkit to live his last life as a kittypet. Since he was an apprentice, he went to visit the kittypets and asked them for advice – and Jake is one of them, my boy. Through this, he evaluates many things that are normal for Clan cats, like living with borders. In the end, one of his kittypet friends dies and he goes to live with his twolegs which is so wholesome of him.

But also with this novella, I have some critique. Two are personal nature insofar that I neither like this time of ThunderClan nor stories starting with the protagonist of an apprentice. My other two were with the writing. First, we have much retelling from other events of the book and second, there’s this deterministic trope that Tigerstar is evil since birth which I just don’t like, and which sends some weird messages. Other than this, it was an enjoyable novella.

[Nico · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used to read the series as a kid, and sometimes I still do now. The older I get, the more I'm wondering if those are really children's books... So many death and sadness. I still love to read the books but I'm 25 and crying about goosefeather, a character I didn't even cared about prior to this novel.
It's the same scheme as the previous books and also feels the same.