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A review by aotora
Crowfeather's Trial by Erin Hunter
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
2023: I still liked this book and it's still one of my favourite SEs to this day because it made me love Breezepelt and Nnightcloud, two cats I hated before and it made me love Crowfeather.
That being said- WindClan is my second favourite clan right behind SkyClan and I hated the way they acted in this book. Everybody is still mistrustful of Breezepelt and that just fizzles out by the end of the book, don't get me started on Onestar - I almost hate him more in this book than I hated him in his own SE and I just hated most of the characters so much. I also hated how everyone treated Crowfeather after Featherpaw was injured. They are acting like she is a moon old cat that just left the nursery, he was encouraging as every other mentor yet they all treat him like he told her to go fight the stoats and get injured. She said herself that she knew better but still let herself be talked into joining the attack.
Other than that I love his relationship with his apprentice, I love that he finally mends things with Lionblaze, Breezepelt and Nightcloud even though Jayfeather is still harsh on him and doesn't want to mend things and I am glad that he is finally the deputy by the end of the book, thought I really doubt that we will ever see Crowstar.
2020:Okay so I really loved this book- I really, really did - I loved Breezepelt, I loved Crowfeather, heck I even managed to feel a little bit of affection for Nightcloud - but the one thing that soured this book for me was Onestar or Onetrash from this point on.
He is a horrible leader, he has always been a horrible leader. But he attacks Bramblestar and uses his father against him - he is basically like: "well your father was Tigerstar, the worst cat in the forest, did you two plot to kill Firestar?" and he never apologizes for it or gets called out for that - Crowfeather is constantly thinking that that was a horrible thing to say and that he shouldn't have said it but he never calls him out for it, and Onetrash never apologizes either - he and Bramblestar are suddenly on good terms and that's that.
Not to mention a ton of other decisions he accepted due to his own stupidity and pride- he nearly killed off half of his clan by trying to block the entrances to the tunnel and driving the stoats to Thunderclan, which again - Crowfeather mentions over and over again was a bad choice and he shouldn't have done that, but is promptly never brought up again and he is never called out for it.
Also the entire clan being like: "oh you shouldn't question our leader, he makes stupid decisions but he is the clan leader so we should always listen to him." - No, no you shouldn't - if the leader does something insanely stupid and wrong you should call him out for it - it was so stupid and annoying and I hated him through this entire book- and even though there is a brief attempt at the redemption in the end when he apologizes to Crowfeather and acknowledges his mistakes it just didn't do anything for me and I just ... didn't care.
That being said- WindClan is my second favourite clan right behind SkyClan and I hated the way they acted in this book. Everybody is still mistrustful of Breezepelt and that just fizzles out by the end of the book, don't get me started on Onestar - I almost hate him more in this book than I hated him in his own SE and I just hated most of the characters so much. I also hated how everyone treated Crowfeather after Featherpaw was injured. They are acting like she is a moon old cat that just left the nursery, he was encouraging as every other mentor yet they all treat him like he told her to go fight the stoats and get injured. She said herself that she knew better but still let herself be talked into joining the attack.
Other than that I love his relationship with his apprentice, I love that he finally mends things with Lionblaze, Breezepelt and Nightcloud even though Jayfeather is still harsh on him and doesn't want to mend things and I am glad that he is finally the deputy by the end of the book, thought I really doubt that we will ever see Crowstar.
2020:Okay so I really loved this book- I really, really did - I loved Breezepelt, I loved Crowfeather, heck I even managed to feel a little bit of affection for Nightcloud - but the one thing that soured this book for me was Onestar or Onetrash from this point on.
He is a horrible leader, he has always been a horrible leader. But he attacks Bramblestar and uses his father against him - he is basically like: "well your father was Tigerstar, the worst cat in the forest, did you two plot to kill Firestar?" and he never apologizes for it or gets called out for that - Crowfeather is constantly thinking that that was a horrible thing to say and that he shouldn't have said it but he never calls him out for it, and Onetrash never apologizes either - he and Bramblestar are suddenly on good terms and that's that.
Not to mention a ton of other decisions he accepted due to his own stupidity and pride- he nearly killed off half of his clan by trying to block the entrances to the tunnel and driving the stoats to Thunderclan, which again - Crowfeather mentions over and over again was a bad choice and he shouldn't have done that, but is promptly never brought up again and he is never called out for it.
Also the entire clan being like: "oh you shouldn't question our leader, he makes stupid decisions but he is the clan leader so we should always listen to him." - No, no you shouldn't - if the leader does something insanely stupid and wrong you should call him out for it - it was so stupid and annoying and I hated him through this entire book- and even though there is a brief attempt at the redemption in the end when he apologizes to Crowfeather and acknowledges his mistakes it just didn't do anything for me and I just ... didn't care.