by FlareChain » Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:19 pm
I dont read a lot anymore, but easily everything after the first season of Warrior Cats, except the first half of Dawn of the Clans, the Mangas and most of the Super Editions. (Except SkyClan's destiny, that one was just bad)
I dont know... the first 6 books of Warriors is pretty good, it offered something new and most of the characters were pretty damn solid, such as Lionheart, Yellowfang, Fireheart, Graystripe, Ravenpaw, Tigerclaw, Bluestar, Whitestorm, Cinderpelt etc. and the plot, which stretched over the entire 6 books was exciting and well written as well. However, the quality of the books slowly began to drop with "The new prophecy"; which, I admit, starts of decent with interesting characters right from the start but slowly drops when the fourth book rolls around. But the real damn starts with "The power of three" and especially "omen of the stars" which is just.... soooo bad....
I really started to dislike the characters in Power of Three, which only got worse with every new book where all the characters started to get more and more hollow, boring and just generally....bland... I really couldnt care less about the protagonists of the omen of the starts books and most of the background characters don't even have more than 1 personality trait or any depth whatsoever. They kill off uninteresting characters while the protagonists live for eternity.
Characters like Dovewing, Ivypool, Lionblaze etc. are just so damn awful, and by Omen of the Stars, there are only a few exceptions I still care about (like Jayfeather, for example) and I just continued reading in the hopes that the godawful written goody 2 shoes characters all die. (ESPECIALLY Squirrelflight. Omg I do hate this character sooo much)
Most of the Super Editions were still good and all of the Manga's were enjoyable, and after I read Dawn of the Clans 2 years ago, I was fairly surprised how much better this season was. However, that only applied for the first half of books, until they started to do some very odd, weird writing again... Clear Sky's redemption arc was horribly written, characters like Star Flower were just terrible and the forced drama in the last two books was painful to read. Not to mention that most of the scenes seemed rushed as well...
I heard that season 6 was good again, but I really, really don't want to read those books again - imo the Erin's should finally finish this book series, or at least try something completely new like Dawn of the Clans, but instead of telling the story of their ancestors, the story could set in 50 years in the future or something like that.
I loved the books when I was 11/12/13, but now, so many years later, I honestly can't see why so many people - especially in a older age - would go crazy over those books, since on top of that, they are not even written very well - and I don't only mean the characters or some weird prophecy plots.
(And to be honest - my favourite characters, aside from Yellowfang and Jayfeather, must be all the villains, since they at least try to make the books more exciting and try to kill off all those boring, one dimensional characters xD)