The Power of Three
| The Sight |  |
| Dark River |  |
| Outcast |  |
| Eclipse | |
| Long Shadows | |
| Sunrise |  |
| Average Rating: | |
Disjointed, and a lot messier than the previous two series. The main issue with “The Power of Three” is that it is building to one revelation over the span of six books, and that revelation isn’t even that meaningful in the grand scheme of things. The books feel like they are just randomly meandering with self contained short stories and no central antagonist. Biggest issues:
-There is a lot of weird mystery and intrigue surrounding the “more powerful than Star Clan” prophecy, and by the end of book six we hardly know what that means. Our main characters run around asking, but get little to no answer.
-An annoying amount of time is spent on the tribe, and the origins of the tribe. Yet, they hardly play a role in the main “plot”. There is an escapade into the mountains that have the cats teaching each other, but it doesn’t have any payoff. Then, in book five, the plot randomly stops for Jayfeather to learn how the tribe originated (by some weird time/space travel phenomenon where he becomes an ancient cat?). It lead to nothing.
-By Eclipse there is no main antagonist, so Sol is sort of introduced to fill this role? Then, a large battle is provoked by Windclan and there is literally no follow up. The reader is never told why Windclan and Riverclan united to attack Thunderclan, and in later books the clans are civil again. It’s so bizarre.
-Okay back to Sol. What was the point of this character? His claim to fame is that he’s better than Starclan because he predicts an Eclipse, but aside from that? He stirs up trouble among the clans, but does a whole lot of nothing. We spent the bulk of the final book searching for him, and then there is no. payoff. He is captured, accused, and escapes. Not follow up to speak with him after all that drama to capture him. And no confrontation worthwhile by the end.
-Hollyleaf’s turn was somewhat interesting, but again, more time should have been devoted to that instead of running around looking for Sol.