By Erin Hunter
First off, this is a young adult novel. A very young adult novel about cats. Now, I am a cat lover; I do have cats but it has never been at the top of my list of reading choices to pick up a young adult novel about cats that talk. A well meaning friend bought this for me and then kept asking if I had read it or not so I felt obligated. It wasn’t terrible. It wasn’t amazing either. It is a classic hero story where a young kitten (Firepaw) joins a feral cat tribe and comes out as the hero, fulfilling a prophesy and overcoming the many difficult challenges he faces. It didn’t take me long to read, as I’m sure you can imagine, it was quite short. I did get a little confused with all of the many cat names being thrown around: Twolegs, Brokenstar, Whitestorm, etc. But I wasn’t that committed to the novel in the first place so I didn’t really try very hard to sort them all out. I was also a little surprised by the violence, but I guess wild cats can be quite violent and there’s no point in censoring that aspect of a feral cat’s life. Hunter does craft a pretty realistic mythology for the various cat tribes that does make sense with the reality of territory wars and whatnot among wild cats. Trust me, I know this first hand, I have a territory boundary in my backyard. The resident cats do not like intruders.
I’ve been told that this is a very popular series in the preteen world. I can’t really imagine how. I thought Warriors Into The Wild was a bit cheesy. I guess I’m just not a fan of talking cats!
Review by Angela Minchella
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