Warriors#1: Into the Wild reviewed by Gordon

WARRIORS INTO THE WILD by Erin Hunter

272 pages

Avon Books

2003

Reviewed by Gordon

The leading, the fighting, and intensity of four clans are showing that they don’t like each other. A kitteypet (a pet) called Rusty, tells the story, the story starts as Rusty is talking to smudge (his pet friend). Then, in a shocking moment Rusty says that he is going into the wild! But, Smudge warns him about the wild cats out there. When he was walking in the forest, he sees a cat with broad muscle, and it was charging right at him! On the final page, he’s catching food for himself, and strong. The last sentence his a suspenseful part: “he was bigger, faster, and stronger, and wiser. If he was destined to oppose Tigerclaw, then so be it. Fireheart was ready for the challenge.

Warriors are an exciting and popular book. The cat, Rusty, is a pet with friends. Rusty has always been small and weak and when his actions are dangerous, Smudge keeps warning him about the cats who live in the wild. Rusty almost gets killed by a wild cat named Graypaw. As a result Graypaw friends with Rusty and enters the clan. Then he begins his new life in one of the four clans.

Rusty is a fearless cat, he shows this when he walked into the clan and every cat was looking at him and making strange faces. Another example is when he is training and Tigerclaw doubts him, but Firepaw does succeed. Rusty is a unique cat, he likes to do something for his clan, but it brakes the rules. For example, when he goes into shadow clan territory and trys to help by trying to get back the kits. Graypaw is giving, for example when he said that Rusty can be in his clan and ends up succeeding.

Rusty changes sends a message about a person can be more then they appear, but the message is never flaky so when you read the first book you want to read the whole series. I highly recommend ages 8-13 because I think seven year olds wouldn’t get some of the parts of the book.

Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path reviewed by Andrew

Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path

317 pages

HarperCollins

2004

Reviewed by: Andrew

Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path, and its brothers (Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, Forest of Secrets, Rising Storm, and The Darkest Hour,) are all part of the first “part” of the Warriors series. They first appeared in late 2003. The books mostly follow the former house-cat (kittypet) now Thunderclan deputy Fireheart, and his best friend Graystripe, Thunderclan leader Bluestar, Fireheart’s beloved Sandstorm, and ambitious former Thunderclan deputy, now Shadowclan leader, Tigerstar.

A Dangerous Path is the fifth of this extremely exciting and entertaining series. Fireheart and the rest of Thunderclan have to drive Tigerstar out of the forest. All the excitement is topped off by the amazing and cat loving, Erin Hunter.

What Hunter does is make Fireheart first person perspective. You will empathize with him a lot. And when Fireheart does things he shouldn’t do to save the clans from destruction, Bluestar usually punishes him, but he either goes with the punishment, or finds a way to prove that he did it for the clan. And with multiple losses towards the end, you know just how he feels.

It has everything you could want, some humor, adventure, and a great hero. For kids that feel like they have a Tigerstar in their life, try to be like Fireheart. Just don’t fight. And kids who are like a Tigerstar, this book will teach them that good always will beat evil. The books in series do have violence, so I recommend this for ANYONE ages 10 and up.