The Place of No Stars

This was my favorite of the Broken code arc, it might be the very cool descriptions of literal cat hell.

[3.5]

Curse my Warriors addiction for not letting me quit! This book was so disappointing :(

Okay, so I did like Greystripe's return, Shadowsight's character, Snowtuft's character, and the scenes in the dark forest.

But omg the worst thing about this book was Bristlefrost. She goes to the Dark Forest for...what reason? Why does she need to go there? It doesn't make any sense, the authors just wanted all the protagonists to be there. And don't get me started on BristlexRoot. It's so bad!! There's no reason for them to be together except the fact that they're a tom and a she-cat in the same vicinity. I can understand Root's crush on Bristle, but she went from finding him irritating to be hopelessly in love with him for no reason with no development? This is definitely a wider problem with the Warrior Cats series, as ALL main series female protagonists (apart from Hollyleaf) have fallen in love with a tomcat and become passive and uninteresting. Which has happened again to Bristlefrost! Is it too much for these authors to write a strong female protagonist who doesn't fall in love with the nearest guy? I hate Bristlefrost now and I hate that I hate her since its a problem with the writing and not the character herself.

That was a lot of ranting. Of course I could never stop reading Warrior Cats, I'm just hoping that series 8 will do better with Sunbeam and Frostpaw.