Mapleshade’s belly rumbled and she realized that if she didn’t eat now, she would be hungry for the rest of the day up on the hillside. The sun was striking them, turning them rosy and warm-looking, but their outlines still looked like teeth against the pale sky. Tilting back her head, she stared at the jagged rocks that marked the top of the ridge. She swerved to the far side of the next stretch of grass and trotted through a row of trees to where the ground started to slope steeply up. After crossing a broad expanse of grass and pushing through another hedge, Mapleshade saw the dark brown tops of some Twoleg dens that looked like the barn. She decided to stay well clear this time, in case she ran into any of the other medicine cats traveling early to the Moonstone.

She recalled passing a Twoleg den with cows and a dark, hay-scented barn where she and the other apprentices had paused to hunt.

On the other side, she plunged through the long soft grass and into a hedge. She only had to wait a few moments before silence fell heavily in the valley and she was able to dart across the hard black stone. The stench of monsters caught in her throat and made her eyes water, but there were few of the noisy beasts around this early. The cover is generic and the pace for the story was good, even though it’s a novella, it tells a full story.“At last she reached the foot of the slope and crouched beside the Thunderpath. I also have to wonder how the clan got on without a medicine cat, it never said. She should have found shelter and waited until the storm passed.

I was going to say maybe it was because they were already grown but that can’t be true because in Crookedstar’s book, they fought to keep the half-clan kits.Īlso, I thought she was just stupid trying to get her kits to swim when it was storming. I do feel like ThunderClan over-reacted when they found out about her kits but maybe that’s just because I read The Prophecies Begin books and the half-clan kits were kept in the clans they were raised in. I admit that I could never see her as a decent cat but now, I can see her in a slightly better light. Review: Ever since the first time I read Crookedstar’s Promise, I had always wondered about Mapleshade’s story and now I got to read it. But then the Clans cast her out as a traitor-and she vowed to seek her revenge…. *Warning: The review will contain spoilers*īlurb: Long before she troubled the dreams of Crookedstar or Tigerclaw, Mapleshade was a warrior of ThunderClan.

Mapleshades vengeance