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A review by skylacine
Ivypool's Heart by Erin Hunter
3.0
A mixed bag for sure.
Bullet review:
+Ivypool makes for a great protagonist still. She was one of my fave cats in OotS and I'm glad she finally got her own POV book. Her arc about processing her grief and growing into her role as deputy more was well-handled.
+Great character interactions! I love the main group here and they played off of each other really well.
+Some of the new side characters were fun and decent. Nothing groundbreaking, but they were decent enough.
*A lot of new lore introduced. I'm kind of neutral on all this, how I feel about it mostly depends on what they do with it going forward. If it is actually utilized effectively in future books I'll be okay with it, but for now all this new lore and thewildcats and StormClan just seems to be kind of there for this book and doesn't seem to be very connected to the main plot of the current arc. I will change my opinion if they do somehow manage to tie this back, but for now it seems pretty isolated.
-Oh, goodie. It's another traveling book. And the traveling is just as well written (see: poorly) as in other Erin Hunter books. Seriously, the journey here was very boring even with all the new concepts introduced.
-Plot feels rather meandering and the pacing is S.L.O.W.
Overall there is some really good stuff to be found here but it's held back by the painfully boring traveling sections. I like the character writing but is it really worth to sit through all this dull slow-paced story just to get to it?
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-review-ivypools-heart-by-erin.html
Bullet review:
+Ivypool makes for a great protagonist still. She was one of my fave cats in OotS and I'm glad she finally got her own POV book. Her arc about processing her grief and growing into her role as deputy more was well-handled.
+Great character interactions! I love the main group here and they played off of each other really well.
+Some of the new side characters were fun and decent. Nothing groundbreaking, but they were decent enough.
*A lot of new lore introduced. I'm kind of neutral on all this, how I feel about it mostly depends on what they do with it going forward. If it is actually utilized effectively in future books I'll be okay with it, but for now all this new lore and the
-Oh, goodie. It's another traveling book. And the traveling is just as well written (see: poorly) as in other Erin Hunter books. Seriously, the journey here was very boring even with all the new concepts introduced.
-Plot feels rather meandering and the pacing is S.L.O.W.
Overall there is some really good stuff to be found here but it's held back by the painfully boring traveling sections. I like the character writing but is it really worth to sit through all this dull slow-paced story just to get to it?
Full review at: https://skybookcorner.blogspot.com/2024/09/book-review-ivypools-heart-by-erin.html