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nowiamjim's review against another edition
4.0
This book started out all cheer-y when suddenly tragedy is dropped right in your face. Throughout most of the book, this is the case. Though surprisingly the ending is quite happy. Somewhere right before the middle things got repetitive and hard to read. Not my favourite Warriors super edition, but I still liked the book. It really adds open ideas for the newest Warriors arc; Vision of Shadows.
mooandherbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
THIS BOOK MADE ME SO SAD I CRIED WTF ERIN HUNTER (love you though <33)
silverperri's review against another edition
4.0
I had pretty high expectations of "Hawkwing's Journey" going in, and they were very much met-- I think this stands alongside "Tallstar's Revenge" and "Crookedstar's Promise" easily as one of the best super editions, and it (ironically) feels like one of the most human stories told in the Warrior Cats universe. I love Hawkwing, I love the main cast, and I love the depth of the relationships and how much they struggle with everything SkyClan goes through in the book. It also felt like the writing honestly cared about every single one of our main character's intrapersonal relationships, which was deeply refreshing!
loang's review against another edition
3.0
Rating: 6 out of 10
Misery, misery, and more misery. That’s it, I’ve just described this entire book. No need to read it anymore.
Okay, that was a joke. You can see from my positive rating that I did like this book, despite the many logical reasons anyone could have not to like it.
As you might have guessed from the title, this book involves a journey. In fact, an awful lot of them! More than half the book is spent traveling as bad things and more bad things happen to SkyClan. Animals, cars, people, hunger, sickness, gangs, literally everything you could ever imagine. Sometimes there’s a tragedy that does move or surprise you, but most of the time it misses the mark.
At this point, this has become a common issue with Super Editions, but really, some of these things shouldn’t be that long! I can see this book being a hundred times better if only it was a hundred pages shorter.
Oh yeah, the ending. I’ve already read the A Vision of Shadows arc, so I was sure that the ending would be underwhelming as in this point of the story SkyClan doesn’t really get anywhere yet, but it was still like a punch in the gut to see this end just practically out of nowhere. The best thing I can say about the ending is that they tried, I guess.
But! But! There were still a couple of really good things about this book: namely Hawkwing. I really loved his character! He had a lot of personality, had a pretty active role in the plot, interesting flaws, development throughout the story, basically everything anyone could wish from a good protagonist.
The first half of the book (you guessed it! the part where they don’t go on journeys. Or at least they go on smaller journeys) was really nice as well! Darktail is one of the best Warriors villains (in my opinion) and so I had great fun reading about him. His betrayal was really well written and a truly heart-wrenching scene. The pacing was slow, which I believe this part of the story really benefited from (not so much the journey part, though!).
I have a huge soft spot for SkyClan, and it shows, so no amount of tedious journeys or pointless hunting scenes could stop myself from at least slightly enjoying this book. I have to admit, though: as much as it hurts me to say it, this was just not good enough.
Misery, misery, and more misery. That’s it, I’ve just described this entire book. No need to read it anymore.
Okay, that was a joke. You can see from my positive rating that I did like this book, despite the many logical reasons anyone could have not to like it.
As you might have guessed from the title, this book involves a journey. In fact, an awful lot of them! More than half the book is spent traveling as bad things and more bad things happen to SkyClan. Animals, cars, people, hunger, sickness, gangs, literally everything you could ever imagine. Sometimes there’s a tragedy that does move or surprise you, but most of the time it misses the mark.
At this point, this has become a common issue with Super Editions, but really, some of these things shouldn’t be that long! I can see this book being a hundred times better if only it was a hundred pages shorter.
Oh yeah, the ending. I’ve already read the A Vision of Shadows arc, so I was sure that the ending would be underwhelming as in this point of the story SkyClan doesn’t really get anywhere yet, but it was still like a punch in the gut to see this end just practically out of nowhere. The best thing I can say about the ending is that they tried, I guess.
But! But! There were still a couple of really good things about this book: namely Hawkwing. I really loved his character! He had a lot of personality, had a pretty active role in the plot, interesting flaws, development throughout the story, basically everything anyone could wish from a good protagonist.
The first half of the book (you guessed it! the part where they don’t go on journeys. Or at least they go on smaller journeys) was really nice as well! Darktail is one of the best Warriors villains (in my opinion) and so I had great fun reading about him. His betrayal was really well written and a truly heart-wrenching scene. The pacing was slow, which I believe this part of the story really benefited from (not so much the journey part, though!).
I have a huge soft spot for SkyClan, and it shows, so no amount of tedious journeys or pointless hunting scenes could stop myself from at least slightly enjoying this book. I have to admit, though: as much as it hurts me to say it, this was just not good enough.
soradarth's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
This book was the best Warriors traveling book I have read. The traveling itself had an interesting purpose, and didnt just spent the whole book wandering place to place and getting stuck. That alone made this book quite good compared to others similar to it, but I also liked how they fleshed out Hawkwing. Hes not a bad cat, but hes aware hes making lots of mistakes and tries to do better, and eventually achieves through his maturity. The ending wasnt my favorite and I wouldve enjoyed a longer story, but this is probably one of my favorite warriors super editions and is a great book. My only complaint is that its characters go out faster than the ones in Game of Thrones.
zerosiero's review against another edition
adventurous
5.0
Love to see some of the things that happened off screen in the main series. I actually will miss the daylight warriors, I kind of wish they could be incorporated into the main clans a bit.
constancenorene's review against another edition
5.0
So good. The Skyclan super editions have always been my favorite, and the heartbreak depicted in here...I just love it so much.
thatoneatha99's review against another edition
5.0
This book is an emotional roller coaster. It was so good though. I feel so bad for Skyclan, they don't deserve any of the bad things that happened to them in this book.
TBH Hawkwing's romance was so random like he just suddenly decided that he no longer couldn't stand Pebbleshine and loved her instead. The Erins should also emphasize age for these characters cuz Hawkwing fell in love with Pebbleshine when she was still an apprentice and I get that like they are close in age and it's not weird but it's walking a fine line cuz we don't know for sure if she is full-grown when he starts looking at her in a romantic way. It could have been written better.
TBH Hawkwing's romance was so random like he just suddenly decided that he no longer couldn't stand Pebbleshine and loved her instead. The Erins should also emphasize age for these characters cuz Hawkwing fell in love with Pebbleshine when she was still an apprentice and I get that like they are close in age and it's not weird but it's walking a fine line cuz we don't know for sure if she is full-grown when he starts looking at her in a romantic way. It could have been written better.