#like in shattered sky or whtever. 3rd avos book. lots of tension lost when he loses riverclan and gets pushed back into shadowclan

[wormstar]

I really liked all of avos! I have a LOT of problems with it, I liked it bc of alderhearts anxiety but he lost his personality, finleap and twiggy's whole.. thing when I had liked finleap a lot before, and the way the clans just keep like dithering and running into skyclan to waste time is really annoying, etc. But! I liked the darktail plot, I liked that we saw the clans dealing with the fallout (even if three books was too much for that) and I liked the characters a lot! I cried a few times like briarlight's and needletail's deaths, alderheart's full medicine cat name, and when tigerheart and dovewing were revealed to still be together (I'm a sucker 😭). I think it could have been paced far better but the kin and the protagonists are worth it if you liked like. oots and tbh imo

oh yeah i think the reason avos disappoints me so much is because theres a lot of like. really good bones but the meat on them is so frail. avos is probably like the only arc where its like. narratively shown that the clans got scarred by a battle and are still struggling to adjust to regular life again, like conceptually i like tigerstar's sudden bitterness toward skyclan (though i wish it was better written. word of god states him becoming mean in the tail end of avos is him trying to show off and be strong to give his clan hope which i do find congruous with tigerhearts shadow but it was written like SHIT) and i think the fact that theres a few moments where its like. ok this is a new chapter. this happens literal months AFTER the prior chapter. you get to read all about it. is a new thing for wc. cool stuff not executed well enough is the main gripe i have i guess