Book Review: Darkness Within by Erin Hunter (Warriors: The Broken Code #4)

I'm finally catching up to these! Let's take a look at the next book in the Broken Code arc! Spoilers ahead.

Now with the Imposter captured, the Clans have finally figured out his true identity: he is none other than Ashfur, back from the dead in order to exact revenge upon Squirrelflight for rejecting him. Tensions in the Clans are still quite high, with everyone divided on whether or not Bramblestar's body should be killed in order to defeat the Imposter or not.

Out of the entire arc, I consider this one to be the worst so far. It wasn't particularly engaging and honestly it's just a whole lot of back-and-forth between the Clans about killing or not killing Bramblestar's body. Squirrelflight obviously keeps defending him, but everyone else seems to agree that killing the Imposter may bring back StarClan somehow, and that Ashfur in general has to pay for the mayhem he caused among the Clans.

It was just...not an engaging read. Not until the last part, I guess. I didn't really care that much for this disrupted version of ThunderClan, Rootspring's and Bristlefrost's romance wasn't all that engaging and the whole back-and-forth about killing or not killing Ashfur is just annoying more than anything.

It might've helped if his big reveal as the Imposter had been something I didn't see coming, but this had been spoiled for me ages ago, so it obviously didn't come as a surprise in the slightest. 

So I personally wasn't a big fan of this book. It's still okay, but so far my least favorite from the arc.

Rating: 3/5