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A review by enter_the_phantom
Habichtschwinges Reise by Erin Hunter
3.0
I usually enjoy the Super Editions, but I just didn’t see why we needed this one.
I really expected this to focus more on Darktail and give us a good concrete tie-in to his Vision of Shadows plot. He was such a terrifying and formidable enemy in the Vision of Shadows arc—he very nearly manages to do what so many villains before him have tried and failed at, and he deserved much more than a few chapters worth of backstory in this book. It was so weird to see one of the first genuinely frightening villains we’ve had in a long time reduced to a second-rate baddie here.
Most of the book just follows Skyclan as they wander in circles, something we’ve seen plenty of in previous books, and I’m just tired of it now. With all the implied tragedy in Vision of Shadows, more needed to actually happen to Skyclan than a bird attack and some badgers.
Hawkwing is not an interesting or important enough character to deserve his own Super Edition. Not a lot happens to him, and it’s just boring.
Would have made a much better novella. Honestly kind of dumb that Mapleshade only got a novella and a very ill-developed secondary Skyclan cat gets a whole Super Edition, but oh well.
I really expected this to focus more on Darktail and give us a good concrete tie-in to his Vision of Shadows plot. He was such a terrifying and formidable enemy in the Vision of Shadows arc—he very nearly manages to do what so many villains before him have tried and failed at, and he deserved much more than a few chapters worth of backstory in this book. It was so weird to see one of the first genuinely frightening villains we’ve had in a long time reduced to a second-rate baddie here.
Most of the book just follows Skyclan as they wander in circles, something we’ve seen plenty of in previous books, and I’m just tired of it now. With all the implied tragedy in Vision of Shadows, more needed to actually happen to Skyclan than a bird attack and some badgers.
Hawkwing is not an interesting or important enough character to deserve his own Super Edition. Not a lot happens to him, and it’s just boring.
Would have made a much better novella. Honestly kind of dumb that Mapleshade only got a novella and a very ill-developed secondary Skyclan cat gets a whole Super Edition, but oh well.