Rusty, an ordinary house cat, dreams of living in the wild and is asked to join the wild cat Clan ThunderClan after wandering into the forest one day and fighting off a forest cat apprentice. He accepts and leaves his old life and becomes a Clan apprentice named Firepaw. He is trained as a ThunderClan apprentice and learns their ways. But one day, as he is training, he runs into the old ShadowClan medicine cat, Yellowfang. He fights her and after feeling sorry for her, he feeds her. As a punishment, he has to take care of the grumpy elder. Meanwhile, WindClan is driven out of their home by ShadowClan and ShadowClan later launches attack on ThunderClan. They fight them off but lose their beloved medicine cat, Spottedleaf and some kits are stolen. They later take revenge and get their kits back from ShadowClan and drive Brokenstar out. In the end, Firepaw and Greypaw get thier Warrior names and Yellowfang becomes medicine cat.
Spottedheart's Reveiw: ****1/2
This book is one of my top three favorites. It has great description and is filled with ever-changing events and action. It is also the only book that actually includes phrases in it like "Mrrrow!" which seems to give it a more realistic, but dramitic feel to it.
Spottedheart's Reveiw: ****
The cats are realistic looking and the cover has a traditional feel to it, good for the first book in a series. The color is also colorful and represents the book's plot well.
Dovefur's Reveiw: *** 1/2
The cover is pretty and the drawings are nice. The cat that is hissing gives a sense that this isn't an ordinary book with happy endings, and the gray cat... he/she gives it a sense of nobility. Like... like the gray cat isn't backing down. It makes you wanna find out why they are fighting. Rusty, the cover cat, gives it a sense of pride. He was born a kittypet and now he's lost his collar, as you can see. The sun on his pelts makes me think 'shiny...'. But it doesn't say much about the plot in the cover...
Fire and Ice
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Release Date: June 1, 2003
Spottedheart's Reveiw: Dovey's Reveiw: ***1/2 Not the best, but the whole Silverstream/Graystripe thing was unexpected. That gave it more of a sense of danger and such... But the retriving WindClan wasn't that interesting... Spottedheart's Reveiw: |