Welcome to another Warriors review. Because I haven’t done enough of these yet, am I right? Here I’ll be taking a look at Tigerclaw’s Fury. Minor spoilers ahead.
In this
book, Tigerclaw, now freshly cast out of ThunderClan for his betrayal, vows
revenge on Fireheart and the rest of ThunderClan. But that doesn’t go easily
now that he’s an outcast. However, the terrible sickness in ShadowClan might
just give him the opportunity he needs to gain a bigger following and enact his
devious plans.
I am mostly
neutral on this book. What I mostly expected was a deeper insight into
Tigerclaw’s character; why he’s so evil and stuff. Was it because of his
abusive mentor Thistleclaw? His father abandoning him and ThunderClan as a kit?
Really, I don’t think it’s much of any of these. They are certainly brought up,
but not to the extent they seem to be the full reason he turned evil. The Dark
Forest is brought up, but Tigerclaw doesn’t even truly know what and who they
are until halfway into this book, and he already was evil way before that.
The
characters were all right. Not the greatest, as is to be expected with Warriors
by now, but I did like this new perspective we got on some of them. From
Blackfoot and the other rogues to more ShadowClan cats; we get to see them from
a new point of view. This was honestly kind of refreshing. Also, having a book
being written from the villain’s perspective is somewhat rare in this series, I
believe?
The pacing
was decent, and I did like the insight this book also gave us on what truly
went down with Whitethroat, Tigerclaw and the rest of ShadowClan.
I did feel
somewhat weirded out by Clawface suddenly being alive again. Like… why is he
here suddenly? He was bloody killed in book 2. And now he’s here? Ah well,
continuity, schmontinuity, I suppose.
Overall,
while far from perfect, I liked this book enough. It did offer a unique perspective on some characters and events, and I
appreciate that it can do that, even though it didn’t particularly develop
Tigerclaw’s character a whole lot.
Rating: 3/5
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