Pebbleshine's Kits

This book was okay. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't anything special. Pebbleshine's Kits is about Pebbleshine's journey from just before she gets taken away by the monster (car) up until her death and a bit beyond.

I would've liked to see more of Pebbleshine's interactions with Hawkwing because she spends a lot of time thinking about him and I much prefer when books show not tell; show me how much Pebbleshine loves Hawkwing, don't tell me.

I never really fully understood how Pebbleshine got taken away on the monster in Hawkwing's Journey and I'm still confused, honestly. It's sometimes difficult to decipher what is going on when cats are describing twoleg (human) things. I'm still not sure if she was on the roof of the car, and if she was, then surely there should've been more description of wind seeing as it would be very windy on top of a moving car.
Anyway, it was interesting to see a story which had a larger focus on twoleg monsters and how Pebbleshine tried to use them to get home as she didn't understand that a different monster wouldn't necessarily go the same way as the original one.

Of course, when you have a Warrior Cats travelling book there is going to be cat racism. There always is. However, Pebbleshine's Kits does a good job of representing kittypets as not lazy and stupid. Pebbleshine meets two kittypets, Milo and Olive, who help her get to a monster camp (car park) and Pebbleshine learns to respect them despite them being kittypets. It's refreshing after books like Tigerheart's Shadow which is basically a book where Tigerheart and Dovewing become missionaries.

The mention of Tree in this book is strange, as Pebbleshine merely thinks about how she met him, but we do not get to see that interaction. When I read this part, I was confused and had to check back to see if I had actually missed a few pages! I do wish we could've met Tree in this book, not only because I personally like Tree, but also because it would tie this novella into Tree's Roots, one of the other novellas in the trio, A Warrior's Spirit.

Once Pebbleshine dies, she becomes a ghost. I feel like this scene was rather rushed as Pebbleshine expressed a bit of concern for her kits and Micah immediately suggested letting her wander as a ghost. I did enjoy her chapter as a ghost, though. I found it interesting how she sort of interacted with Needlepaw so that she and Alderpaw could find her two kits.

As always with Warriors novellas, I did find the end a bit rushed but that is understandable as the novellas are more just for filler and the end of them is not the end of the story itself.