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Into the Wild
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Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter's Warriors series a #1 national bestseller--with new editions featuring a striking new look! Epic adventures. Fierce warrior cats. A thrilling fantasy world. It all begins here with Warriors #1: Into the Wild.
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying--and some deaths are more mysterious than others.
In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty...who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying--and some deaths are more mysterious than others.
In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty...who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
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“Rereading this for the first time since I was 12 or so?
Listen these books hold UP. Teared up a few times. Found family, betrayal, politics, it’s got it all.”
“I come across the same thing in the film community all the time, people confusing a fondness for things that remind them of their childhood for quality. Look at most of the top 5 star reviews, these are not people who have just read the book for the first time and are expressing a genuine positive reaction to it. The vast majority of those review are "I loved these books as a kid" or "Re-reading this book reminded me of being 8 years old, eating Dunkaroos and drinking a Caprisun". It's okay to like things as a child and grow up and realize that they aren't actually the masterpiece you thought they were. Growing up reading Harry Potter and then watching the first movies in the theaters, I was so excited to see some of my favorite stories on the big screen that if Letterboxd existed back then, I'd have eagerly given them all 5 stars. Re-watching them now as an adult that has seen thousands of movies since then, I can recognize that they have a lot of flaws, yet understand why I loves them so much. I believe a 5 star review of this book from a child, but I call bullshit on any adult unironically claiming it's a perfect five star novel. There is an interesting and unique(ish) story it the heart of the book, but the storytelling is sloppy, the characters are underwritten, the action scenes are an impossible to follow mess, the pacing is glacially slow unless it's one of the aforementioned action scenes (in which case we blase through everything like Hunter just wants them to be over with), and the world bulding is piecemeal in a way that makes it difficult to become invested in. If you can push past the prologue, which dumps way too much on you at once, having our lead be a house cat that is being brought into the world of the warrior cats with very little more knowledge than we have is a solid start. We learn about the weird world of cat clans along with him and he asks a lot of the same questions that I had (I'm not saying that we get answers to them, but they are at least acknowledged), but it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Yes, this is book one in a brand new franchise for kids, so I'm sure things get more fleshed out in future books and subsequent series, but the book isn't even 300 pages long and it still felt like I'd been reading it forever. It just never quite gets into a grove and although the story does have some exciting parts, Into the Wild doesn't feel like Season One of Warriors or like episode one of The Prophecies Begin, it feels like a good pilot's worth of material spread across an entire season; it's a short book that still feels like it needs to be condensed. Normally, that would involve cutting out descriptions or needless subplot, but this book doesn't really have that many strong descriptions to begin with and the story is already kind of threadbare; the extra length is from all of the fuck around scenes that add nothing. The difference between a kid's chapter book and a YA novel (and honestly even an adult novel) is a fine line, but usually it's in how strong the writing is and how easy it is for you to see and get invested in the world of novel. Into the Wild's strength is describing the cats and it does a pretty shitty job of it. The book opens with a daunting looking series of maps and lists of character summaries and allegiances, but if you actually look at them, they are shallow and not particularly helpful. "Brokenstar - Long-haired dark brown tabby", okay, those are descriptive words, but there are at least four other cats that are also long-haired dark brown tabbies. And it's not like their characterizations really come in and define them further. The most well built character is the blank slate self-insert character that the reader mostly builds themselves on top of. My standards are already lowered for kid's books, but they really need a certain level of imagination and fun to make up for it, and this book doesn't have that. It's hard to get invested in 80% of these characters, especially when they'll just drop brand new names into scenes in the last couple chapters of the book. There are 29 cats listed in our lead's clan at the beginning of the book (don't even get me started on how stupid the whole clan thing is in this world) and that's not even the whole clan, so is it really necessary to have some brand fucking new character speak out at a meeting in the last 30 pages? I already can't keep most of these fucks apart since they all have similar names (some insultingly so), are all described as <size> <clolor> <pattern>, and have very little in terms of defining character traits, especially since I can look at the roster now at these names and honestly tell you that I don't remember some of these cats even coming up in the story. I know more about the lead's former owners than I do about whoever the fuck Smallear is. I absolutely refuse to believe that an adult can read this book today and say it is a five star book. I'd let you argue for a four star if you somehow managed to get completely invested in it (though I'd question your sanity), but in no fucking world is there an honest case for the quality of this book being at a five star level, just like a PB&J on Bunny Bread is not a five star meal that you'd expect (or accept) from a Michelin-Star restaurant, even if it brings back fond memories of being a baby watching Sesame Street. Without the rose colored glasses, Into the Wild is a fine, but very underwhelming story that spends most of its time spinning its wheels with bland, forgettable characters, that you really hope get something more meaningful to do as the world of the warrior cats opens up.”
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