Moonrise

Warriors: The New Prophecy #2

by Erin Hunter, Dave Stevenson (Illustrator)

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Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together. . .

Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans. Now those six are traveling home again, but on their way through the mountains, they meet a tribe of wild cats who seem to have their own set of warrior ancestors . . . and their own mysterious prophecy to fulfill. Stormfur can't understand their strange fascination with him, but he knows the danger they face is real.

Meanwhile, back in the forest, Firestar's daughter Leafpaw watches ThunderClan's world crumble around her, as the humans' terrible machines destroy more and more of their home. Will the questing cats make it back in time to save the Clans, or will they be too late?

. . . and shake the forest to its roots.

Genres: Fantasy, Animals, Childrens, Middle Grade, Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure

312 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 25, 2005

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

[Mothman · Rating 3 out of 5]

2017 reread

Me: Maybe Feathertail won't die this time.
Feathertail: *dies tragically*
Me: *looks into the camera*

[Janeen-san · Rating 3 out of 5]

The six cats chosen from the four wild Clans of the forest--ThunderClan, ShadowClan,RiverClan and WindClan--are finally on their way back home!

In the first book of the New Prophecy, Midnight, the new warrior Bramleclaw gets a disturbing dream from StarClan telling him to join up with three other cats and "listen to what midnight tells you."
They travel to the Sun-Drown-Place (the sea) and find "midnight".
Midnight the BADGER!
She gives them a warning that they must follow, or it will mean the quick death of every cat in every clan!

So now, in the second book of the series, the cats are on their way home again, but this time with a heavier burden on their shoulders than before.
Halfway home, they encounter a fierce mountain Tribe--the Tribe of Rushing Water, and they have a prophecy of their own:
"A silver cat will come to save us all."
Lucky for them, but unlcuky for the Clan cats--Stormfur is a silver cat, and the Tribe insists on keeping him prisoner until he can defeat Sharptooth, a evil mountain lion! Will rescue Stormfur?

Meanwhile, in the forest waaaaay back home, medicine cat apprentice Leafpool is seeing the destruction of all the clans around her. Then she gets kiddnapped by Twolegs!
If you want to find out what happens, read this book! It doesn't matter if you are already a Warroir fan, or never heard of this book before, you WILL LOVE IT!

I really fell in love with this book beucase it NEVER got slow and it was full of action! Yippeee!!

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the drama that is in this series! Don't get me wrong there was plenty of drama with Firestars adventures.... But Squirrelflight is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Her personality if funny, but she is quick tempered with a retort when needed. She's a lot like me. :-)

I am rewriting this review because the old one was pathetic. I like how the Erins are flip flopping between characters in the rest of their series. It adds a different perspective to the warriors world. :-)

This book has been added to my favorites shelf because of the reuniting scene when Squirrelflight and her friends come back to the clans. This scene is one of my favorites of all time. I still think about it sometimes. :-)

(Review revised on June 4, 2011.)

[Brinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this series when I was younger, so I’ve been enjoying going back and reading through them again. This set definitely isn’t my favorite though, I’ve found that quite a few of the characters irritate me, and I find the plot to be quite lacking in this one especially. Still love this series though!

[Saar The Book owl · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 6 cats are on their way to fullfill the phrophecy as explained in the previous book. They discover that Midnight isn't what they thought it was and besides that they meet a new tribe that is in great danger. Danger is lurking ahead, a sacrifice or more has to be made and though decisions has to be taken. This is another book in the Warrior Cats - series, but for now it's my least favorit. Allthough it reads well, it's a bit repetitive and ongoing. There were a few tense moments, but still...I hope the next book will be a bit better.

[Maddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A whole lot of stuff happened in this book, but Stormfur being one of the MCs really decreased my rating! I definitely think I'm too old to fully appreciate this book, and even the nostalgia of years ago can't redeem them. They'll always stay favourites, but I can see they have flaws. Mostly flaws in their emotions and their insta-love :p Can't wait to get to new stories I haven't read before.

[Amory · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars!
I really appreciated having this book largely take place from Feathertail and Stormfur's perspectives. We rarely get narrators from outside of Thunderclan, so this was a nice treat. I also still enjoy the switching from the perspectives of the cats on the journey to the ones back in the forest. That being said, I do wish that the romantic Crowpaw/Feathertail relationship didn't exist. I don't think it adds much to the story and it blossoms way too quickly to feel authentic.

[March · Rating 5 out of 5]

¡Cómo me gusta una buena historia! Y unos buenos personajes lo son todo, aunque sean, como en este, gatos, ¡pero qué maravillosos personajes!
Estoy supurando adrenalina por cada poro de mi piel ahora mismo. A pesar de que el primero de la Nueva profecía me dejó un poco fría por dejar la acción en manos de jovencitos que no tienen muy claro lo que hacía, en este segundo volvemos a encontrarnos con los gatos de la saga original, entremezclando capítulos con la trama nueva.
Ha sido desgarrador ver cómo destruimos el bosque sin pensar en todos esos animales que pierden sus casas, sus familias e incluso sus vidas, por la ambición del ser humano. Ciertamente, han sido los únicos personajes que me han sobrado.
Estoy deseando continuar la saga, se ha quedado en un momento muy emocionante, con muchas posibilidades a la vista, esto tiene muy buena pinta para desarrollarse en un futuro cercano. Totalmente recomendable a todo el mundo.

[Lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moonrise Summary - LOTS OF SPOILERS!!!

Prologue
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Stoneteller: We must look into the mystical water to tell our future
Stoneteller: *stares at water intensely*
Water: *ripples*
Stoneteller: O MA GAWD
Stoneteller: A SILVER CAT WILL KILL THE VICIOUS LION IN AN INTENSE BATTLE THAT COULD RESULT IN DEATH BUT WE ARE HAPPY BECAUSE SILVER CAT IS NOT RELATED TO US!
Tribe of Rushing Water: YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!

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Stormfur: Hey, we should go through the twoleg place
Tawnypelt: Sure, even though a rabid rat bit me there ^^
Brambleclaw: NO WE GO TO MOUNTAINS
Cats: OK
Purdy: No, don't go there, there' s bad things there
Midnight: SHUSH don't tell them
Midnight: I'm supposed to be the good guy in this story but I'm going to send them through hawk-infested mountains with a savage lion who kills cats :)
Purdy: Oh, fair enough then

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Stormfur *walking through mountains*: Hey guys, there's lots of eagles here
Squirrelpaw: I WANT TO BE A BIRD 😡
Brambleclaw: Sameessss
Eagle: GRRRRRRR *swoops*
Brambleclaw: O MA GAWD THE EAGLE WANTS TO EAT US
Stormfur: *scares off*
Eagle: *flies away*

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Stormfur: Look a stream
Cats: YIPPEEE
Other cats: WHO GOES THERE
Brambleclaw: *gasp* Other cats
Other cats: We are da Tribe of Rushing Water
Crag: I am Crag where Eagles Nest
Brook: I am Brook where Small Fish Swim
Feathertail: What interesting names
Stormfur: I am-
Brambleclaw: *Interrupts and names everybody because he's the unelected leader*
Tribe: O MA GAWD IT'S A SILVER CAT
Stormfur: I'm silver ^^
Feathertail: I'm silver too but nobody seems to notice ^^

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Lion thing: *steals cat UwU*
Tribe: Uh oh

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Stoneteller: O mighty Silver cat, you are our prisoner now
Stormfur: OK ^^

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Prophecy cats: *Kidnaps Stormfur and runs off*
Stormfur: Thanks for kidnapping me
Tawnypelt: No problem, you are our friend
Brambleclaw: We are like family
Feathertail: We must go home now
Stormfur: NO I'M GOING BACK
Prophecy cats: Wut

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Prophecy cats: *Return to Tribe even though they escaped, went back, escaped and then went back again*
Crowpaw: Hey, we know how to kill the lion thing
Stoneteller: Cool
Talon: You cast us out to kill the lion thing
Stoneteller: AnD yOu ReTuRnEd WiThoUt KiLlInG iT hIsSsSs
Talon: Well we're here to kill it now duh
Stoneteller: Oh, ok
Brook: So how are we going to kill the lion thing?
Squirrelpaw: DEATHBERRIES :D
Stoneteller: ThOsE aReN't DeAtHbErRiEs ThOsE aRe NiGhTsEeDs
Crowpaw: Whatever
Feathertail: We are luring it into your home even though many of you might die ^^
Brook: Cool. What you luring it with?
Talon: *goes mental* WiTh BlOoD *slices own paw and runs off*
Talon: *runs back in* Oh no, lion thing is here
Crowpaw: WELL DUH.
Lion thing: *Runs in*
Lion thing: *Looks at hare*
Lion thing: *ignores hare*
Squirrelpaw: NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Feathertail: Oh great, the lion thing now knows where we are hiding, I wonder how 🤪

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Lion thing: *chases*
Prophecy cats: *sit on wall* 🫣
Crowpaw: *gets cornered because he's smol*
Stormfur: I will kill it, I am the O might silver cat
Prophecy cats: Yes O mighty silver cat, kill it
Feathertail: NO, I AM DA SILVER CAT
Feathertail: *dies*
Lion thing: *also dies*
Prophecy cats: NOOOOoooooOOOOO FeAtHeRtAiL
Stormfur: Awwww man I was the O mighty silver cat not HER
Prophecy cats: *very depressed*
Tribe: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LION THING IS DEAD
Tribe: THE REAL SILVER CAT IS ALSO DEAD BUT WHO CARESSSSS
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Prophecy cats: Oh, look Highstones
Stormfur: Yahoo
Crowpaw: Yippee, I wonder if home is still as good as I remember :D

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Home-
Rabbit: *dead*
Dappletail: I must eat rabbit
Rabbit: Haha, I am actually poisoned
Dappletail: *dies*
Larchkit: *dies*
Mistyfoot: *gone*
Cloudtail: *gone*
Brightheart: *gone*
Tigerstar (in dead cat form to Mothwing and Hawkfrost): I AM YOUR FATHER 🌠
Leafpaw: Oh, great 🫥

[Regina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. But it seems, even though I've read them before, I cannot remember it at all. It was still fun to read though, as it was like I was reading it for the first time again.

This one was certainly different - the introduction of a new group of cats The Tribe of Rushing Water. They are desperate but they're not dangerous cats, they just want rid of Sharptooth. And I could have sworn Brook or some other tribe cat went back with them because Stormfur was starting to fall in love with her.

I can't help think Feathertail's death was an answer for hers and Crowpaw's love because they wouldn't be able to see each other once they went home (to their new home, not the one they are in throughout the first series). All the same, and it was sad. But it was bad how they didn't even look or think about the other cats fur, they just automatically took Stormfur as the cat who was going to save them. I'm pretty sure Feathertail and the others would know what colour their own fur is.

What's good and makes you press on is that there's cliffhangers at the end of nearly every chapter, and it's crucial how the story jumps from different cats pov's (especially adding in Stormfurs).

I can't help feeling that the dream that Stormfur got from his mother Silverstream, was a really weak storyline to have, to make him go back to the tribe. I mean they wasted all that time trying to get away and when he gets a dream from StarClan, he admits that they may need him and go back. I supposed there wouldn't have been much of a storyline if that just had happened.

I supposed there wouldn't have been much of a storyline if StarClan had just told all the cats what would happen to the forest, instead of making 4 (turned out to be 6) walk miles to talking to a badger; a cats natural enemy, near the sea. Still, they are great books and I'm sure every book or movie has got a plot that could easily be turned in to 2 pages or something.

If the new tribe hadn't of been introduced I'm pretty sure this book, and only this one, would have been boring. They were already on a mission when they came in to another one, and now it's time to go home. I am dying to read the next book because I really cannot remember what happens even though I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

I feel the characters are really hard to remember, I still probably could not name all the cats who went on the journey. Stormfur, Squirrelpaw, Tawnypaw, Bramblepaw, Feathertail and Crowpaw. Well, maybe I can (and I didn't even need to look at the book), but yeah. The introduction of the new kittypets was interesting, I wonder where they will all end up. I'm dying to hear about Sasha and what she has to say as well, being cooped up where Leafpaw, Mistyfoot, Cloudtail and Brightheart are all being kept. At least Sorreltail will be able to go back and tell Firestar what happened, as long as she wasn't caught (which I don't think she was because she would be in the same place as Leafpaw, unless there are more of the cages in another room or something).

I love all the different cats languages and it's fun picking up what they're saying. I've noticed how the kittypets use language like humans do in real life, they know what cages are even though there's yet to be a group of cats who actually know the word "human". They know their own species so why not ours?

Anyway, I can't think of much else to write because it was mainly about travelling but I must say that they keep me going.

[raisinreadz · Rating 3 out of 5]

uhhh. uh huh. I have thoughts but im in class rn. high highs and low lows….

edit:

actually in retrospect, it was more of low lows with an occasional steep hill, which plateaus into a cliff hanger.

boring mostly. I was so frustrated we were in stormfurs POV. it felt like lazy writing. like they were bored of writing brambleclaw and squirrelpaw and moved onto another character. why am I seeing stormfur pine for squirrelpaw/brook ???? SHOULDNT I BE SEEING BRAMBLECLAW AND SQUIRRELPAW’S RELATIONSHIP?!?!?.

anyways. and leafpaw’s chapters are so boring. and I am so frustrated that she just missed squirrelpaw. of course she gets caught. if firestar had a quarter for everytime a family member got caught by twolegs he’d have two quarters… which isn’t a lot but…

crowpaw was so mean and I know he’s like.. prototype jayfeather, but he’s really just mean to feathertail. in a way that I would say is not healthy for relationships.

anyways, I hate how sharptooth was only here for a split second, I hate that he couldn’t talk even a little bit of cat. I hate that he died and then that’s it. I hate that HAWKFROST is basically tigerstar reincarnated. that is so boring. I like mothwing’s dilemma where she breaks warrior code but she still tries to be good.

okay i’ve talked a lot of bad. but overall, it was still READABLE. I love the warrior cats world, I love the dynamic and structure of their clan system. so inherently I like the books—as a baseline. the boring or frustrating parts brought it down FOR SURE, but honestly the sharptooth parts are really cool! and I like mothwing. I wish leafpaw was a more enjoyable narrator, but I still like mothwing and her struggle with obeying warrior code or not feels like a TPB character story, which is great. so that’s why I think this is a 3/5. very “okay”

[Nalle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cada vez que comienzo un libro de estas sagas me pasa lo mismo. Me atrapan de inmediato y me rompen el morado corazón. Siguiendo la narrativa de su antecesor, la historia es contada a dos voces y en dos lugares distintos. El campamento del clan del trueno que la está pasando muy mal a causa de los dos patas y unas cuevas en las montañas, dónde habita una tribu de gatos distinta pero con muchas cosas en común con los clanes que ya conocemos. Este libro está lleno de momentos de tensión, realmente estás esperando la siguiente catástrofe y aunque sabes que no acabará bien, nada te prepara para lo que sucede.
En este libro vemos a Estrella de Fuego como un líder que se siente abandonado por el clan estelar, a todos los gatos pasando hambre y enfermedad. Incluso algunos han desaparecido (independiente de los gatos que partieron en busca de Medianoche en el libro anterior) y al descubrir la verdad respecta eso crece la incertidumbre al querer saber que más sucederá. Pero a la vez no u.u

[Julia Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved this series as a child and still do now. I'm just re-reading for fun!

[Zali · Rating 3 out of 5]

ughhhh walking and walking and walking and oh what’s that? MORE WALKING. and then randomly they (thankfully) just sum up days of walking on one page and suddenly they’re at highstones (finally)

okay but one thing i really remember about this series was how much I hated leafpaw’s pov, like she literally gave us absolutely nothing. “oh no the forest is going down” ho we knew that, “oh no hawkfrost kinda looks familiar” nooo, really? “oh no mothwing doesn’t understand the warrior code” she’s been in a clan for all of two seconds, what did you expect???

okay also about mothwing and leafpaw- you cannot tell me that leafpaw doesn’t have a crush on her like EVERY TIME without fail that mothwing randomly appears leafpaw will describe her as beautiful or pretty or something like that. like wow, not even trying to hide it are you, leafpaw??

quick little note: why are stormfur and feathertail literally the exact same level headed boringness like hey can you stop being perfect?? feathertail’s death was sad but like she kinda just fell? I remembered it as being some dramatic sequence of slow motion falling where she gets impaled by the stone and then the stone hits sharptooth but nah, she just falls and dies. also crowpaw and her are soooo random, bro wasn’t even a thought when you were born and now you wanna be with him forever? also I totally forgot that stormfur had a crush on squirrelpaw 😭

anyways to sum it up they basically walked a lot and had relationship issues. oh and tigerstar’s bloodline is now in 3 of the 4 clans (thunder: brambleclaw river: hawkfrost & mothwing shadow: tawnypelt)

[Jessi (Novel Heartbeat) · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first 2/3 of this one was just as slow as the first book was, but thankfully around the 200 page mark it picked up and brought back the magic of the series that I fell in love with - in all of its action and heartbreaking brutality! I'm so glad, too, because I was starting to wonder if maybe the second series wasn't for me and that maybe I was falling out of love with the series. The last 100 pages reminded me why I fell in love in the first place!

The first book may have been on the boring side, but I confess it lulled me into a false sense of security, haha. Erin reminded me how harsh she can be in this one. Once again we see the hardship of the cats' lives in the wild - starvation, sickness, predators, humans, and conflict with other Clans. The threat of the Twolegs (humans) added a sense of direness to the story that I know we'll see more of. I can't wait to see how things get resolved! And I neeeed to know what happened to Leafpaw!! My poor baby!

Also, Feathertail's death hit me really hard. I was starting to get worried when the battle with Sharptooth (the mountain lion) approached, but to be honest I didn't expect to lose one of the main four cats of the prophecy. I loved her, but I'm also sad for when Graystripe finds out his daughter died *cries*

[Noella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Als de katten terug naar huis gaan, moeten ze door de bergen. Daar komen ze in contact met een andere groep katten, die hen eerst vriendelijk behandelen, maar als ze verder willen trekken, laten deze bergkatten hen niet gaan. Ze worden namelijk al heel lang geteisterd door een bergleeuw, en ook zij hebben een profetie gekregen, waarin hun beloofd werd dat een zilvergrijze kat hen zal redden. Ze zijn er van overtuigd dat Stormvacht hun redder is. Dus onze reislustige vrienden moeten weer heel wat gevaren doorstaan, en dat terwijl ze zo dringend naar huis moeten, omdat hun thuisclans ook een groot gevaar onder ogen moeten zien.
De verhoudingen tussen de katten zijn fijn uitgewerkt. Hoewel ze nog zich nog wel allemaal verbonden voelen met hun eigen clan, wordt de saamhorigheid onder de leden van de verschillende clans in het reisgezelschap almaar groter. Ze beginnen te beseffen dat clangrenzen en regels kunnen verbroken worden in het licht van het grotere geheel. En ik denk dat ze met deze wetenschap en ervaringen hun clans zullen moeten overtuigen om samen te werken, eens ze terug thuis zijn.
Ik lees deze serie graag, en eigenlijk ga ik zo op in het verhaal, dat ik er niet erg op let of dat het me totaal niet stoort als er weer eens overdreven wordt met bepaalde eigenschappen van sommige katten. En dus vond ik dit ook weer een heel goed boek.

[Spocona Mandarynka Books 🍊 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmmm, mam dość mieszane uczucia. Pierwsza seria ☝️☝️☝️ale ta druga, cóż… zrobili z Ognistego jakiegoś pizdusia jakby wtf, autorki już zapomniały, jaki był ważny?? Mieszane POV też były dość uciążliwe. Poza tym w tym tomie oni głównie po prostu idą, ale nie nudziło mi się, bo mimo, że mam wrażenie, że na ten tom autorkom się skończyły pomysły, bo o ile jeszcze poprzedni w miarę trzymał poziom to oni tutaj tylko… no, szli. Ale oczywiście przeczytam następne tomy bo KOCHAM Wojowników i oddałam im serce już na pierwszym tomie, mimo że seria „Nowa Przepowiednia” nie do końca na nie zasługuje.

[~♥~ Sil · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Este segundo libro me ha gustado más, ya que podemos ver como la travesía de nuestros gatos no es todo camino de rosas, se van encontrando con peligros y adversidades que tendrán que aprender a superar juntos, la más curiosa es cuando aparece un nueva profecía de una tribu de las montañas, donde uno de los gatos tendrá que afrontar su destino.

[sonia · Rating 4 out of 5]

why so morbid? why so much death?

[Brianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

this felt like a filler episode except feathertail broke my heart at the end.

[Hailey Buelow · Rating 5 out of 5]

so good

[Joshua Glasgow · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m currently listening to the audiobook for the tenth book in K.A. Applegate’s ‘Animorphs’ series, THE ANDROID—and I do mean that literally, it is actually playing as I’m typing this. I’ve read it before, but on this re-listen I’m overwhelmed by just how stellar it is. This is an inauspicious place to begin a review of MOONRISE, the seventh in Erin Hunter’s ‘Warriors’ series and the second in the “New Prophecy” subseries. You can already see my rating. THE ANDROID is without a doubt a five-star book; MOONRISE just doesn’t compare.

In fact, thinking about MOONRISE, and about the ‘Warriors’ series as a whole, in comparison to the ‘Animorphs’ series is not favorable for Hunter’s work (yes, I’m aware that “Erin Hunter”, much like “K.A. Applegate”, is not a single person). In a way, it’s good that I’m taking this moment to look at the two series side-by-side: the reason I began reading ‘Warriors’ in the first place is that it was recommended to me as something that potentially mirrored the action and philosophical weight of ‘Animorphs’, of which I was already a devoted fan. Until now I’ve thought of ‘Warriors’ only in reference to itself—that is, I thought of the first six books as a single story, and after reading the first two in the “New Prophecy” series, had mostly been willing to accept the second six as its own distinct story. I hadn’t thought about where ‘Animorphs’ was at this point in its series—how do the two compare? Now that I am considering it, though, it’s immediately apparent to me that ‘Warriors’ is the lesser series.

The only moment so far that has really electrified me was the death of Tigerstar in the sixth book, THE DARKEST HOUR. Until then, though I’d largely enjoyed reading the books, I felt it was failing to reach the highs I’d been promised it would (promised might be a little strong – the series was recommended to me by a parent based on his daughter’s love for this series… it was not a suggestion put forth by a fellow fan of ‘Animorphs’ who could make a good assessment of the relative merit of the two). I’d hoped that Hunter would continue to build on the increasing seriousness of the plight of the cats at the center of the story in an increasingly nuanced way, but the first in the “New Prophecy” series didn’t seize that momentum, instead resetting the pieces for a story seemingly stretched to make a six-book arc. The entire book is a mysterious lead-up to a “To Be Continued…” reveal.

MOONRISE doesn’t move the plot forward by much. Sure, the Clan cats are dealing with the repercussions wrought by humanity’s footprint extending further into the forest, including starvation and increased tensions between the Clans. But at the end of the book, really, how much further are we past the ending of the first book, the point at which humans began to invade? What do we know that we didn’t know before? Likewise, there is a significant plotline involving newly-crowned main character Stormfur being thought of as a Savior for a tribe of mountain cats who are being terrorized by a psychotic mountain lion, but it can’t escape the feeling of being filler—just a way to kill time so all of the action can be pumped into the conclusion. That’s not to say that some of the things that happen here, like Brambleclaw’s ragtag group of prophets being chucked over a waterfall or Stormfur’s belated realization that—SPOILER—he’s not the chosen one, do not have something going for them. But I ask the same question as with the first narrative thread: how much further are we now? That was a fun side adventure, now let us return to your regularly scheduled main conflict.

And yes, there has been death in the ‘Warriors’ series. Yes, there has been pathos. But those moments, even when I can tell it’s trying to ramp up the emotion, don’t have the deep impact they ought to. Characters die or almost die, there are battles and blood, but none of that feels as visceral as it does in ‘Animorphs’. When you read Applegate’s series, you as a reader feel the stress and terror the characters feel. Perhaps the first-person perspective helps. When they’re in battle, you are under siege along with them. Not only are the battles more well-choreographed than the ‘Warriors’ battles, which are invariably an undetailed tussle of scratching and biting, they better sell the immediacy of what the characters are going through. The intensity of violence. I guess that’s what I’m getting at. Tigerstar’s death was, without a question, intense. When any character dies, it should feel that way. It should feel like it carries some weight. Too often, I don’t get that sense from ‘Warriors’. Same with the starvation in ThunderClan. It certainly talks about cats whose ribs are visible through their skin because of how long it’s been since they’ve eaten; there’s even a cat who perishes choosing to eat poisoned food rather than none at all. But it's telling me these things happened without making me feel the urgency they all certainly feel. It’s not ‘Animorphs’, but compare to the second in the ‘Gone’ series by Michael Grant, half of the duo who write as K.A. Applegate, HUNGER. That book also deals with starvation, and one moment I called out in my review of the book was a character’s admission “that the smell of [a] body being cremated made his mouth water”. Now THAT’S evocative! That drives home just how serious the situation is, far more than just a statement about how gaunt the characters have become.

MOONRISE is fine, though. The whole side-quest with mountain cats put me strongly in mind of the ‘Children’s Earth’ / CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR series… I felt like I saw multiple elements from various books in that series popping up here. Also, I do suspect that, as with the first six-book run, more will start to come together as the “New Prophecy” set progresses. And who knows? Maybe it does reach a point where it really hits its stride and leaves me feeling mostly impressed by it. I will soldier on through the remainder of this run, and undoubtedly before long I’ll be seeking out “The Power of Three” even if I remain merely entertained, not enthralled.

[Willemijn jufwillemijnopallstars · Rating 5 out of 5]

De katten zijn op de terugweg van hun reis naar Middernacht. Onderweg sluiten ze tijdelijk aan bij wilde katten. Ze spreken net een andere taal, maar ze kunnen elkaar goed verstaan. De wilde katten wonen op de rotsen in de bergen, ze wonen in een grote achter een waterval. Zij zien Stormvacht als hun redder. Maar waarvoor eigenlijk? Dat wordt niet meteen duidelijk voor de katten uit het woud.

In het woud gaat het ook niet goed, alle clans hebben minder prooi en dat terwijl het nog bladkaal moet worden. Loofpoot gaat op onderzoek uit, ontdekt dingen en twijfelt of ze haar vader Vuurster moet inlichten. Op het moment dat er katten verdwijnen op de plek waar tweebenen het bos vernietigen, gaan de katten met Vuurster op zoek naar de verdwenen katten. Loofpoot weet het bijna, maar dan….

[Estikas · Rating 5 out of 5]

mam fullprint koszulke z tej okładki obv 5/5

[Samuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was kind of good. It was not the best of the warriors series. But it was good like the rest of the warriors books.

[noelle ! · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ummmmm….?
What the heck…?
It was soooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooow
AND WHAT THE HECK?! THREE DEATHS?? (Technically more)
NOPE. HOPE THE NEXT BOOK IS BETTER.

[olive ⋆ inac. saw laufey & p1harmony !! · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s alright but it lost be a bit, especially in the middle and towards the end.

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

The authors' favorite trope is cats intentionally withholding extremely vital information from each other for no reason other than not wanting to cause trouble/stress

[Rowan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mini Review: So I'm trying to decide if this book was better or worse than the previous... I'm not really a fan of Stormfur. He did get better near the end, but his personality is just very bland and sort of a knock off of Brambleclaw's. However, I did love the whole Tribe cat plot, and I'm sad because like Stormfur and Brook are sort of amazing (But not amazing enough for me to tell you in full caps like I do for heartbreaking romances). Anywho, I think the Tribe cats saved it for me. I vaguely remember the Tribe when I read this before, but this refreshed my memory and made me like them even more.

[in__books · Rating 3 out of 5]

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