The end of the stars draws near. Three must become four to battle the darkness that lasts forever....
(Just to make sure that any of this makes sense to someone who hasn't read or heard of the books before I am going to quickly explain a bit about the things in the books as they need past knowledge to understand properly)
Medicine Cats - Cat doctor, knowledge with herbs(medicine) and they have a connection with starclan.
Starclan - Pretty much cat heaven but only for clan cats. They live in a forest that only ever has summer and an endless amount of prey. All cats from different clans live in peace here.
Clans - Four large groups of cats who worship the stars/starclan. (Names of clans: Shadow clan, Thunder clan, River clan and Wind clan)
Dark forest - A misty forest with no prey or stars, evil clan cats go here when they die instead of going to Starclans hunting grounds.
Okay with that out of the way let's talk about this book. The last hope is the last book of the 4th arc of Warriors by Erin hunter, arc 4 being called 'Omen of the stars', so uh yeah, sorry about spoilers, you have been warned. In this book we have the point of view of four characters from Thunderclan, Jayfeather, Lionblaze, Dovewing and Ivypool. Jayfeather is Thunderclan's blind medicine cat and the brother of Lionblaze, they are part of a prophecy along with Dovewing that was sent to their clans leader, Firestar, that said 'There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws', this prophecy give Jayfeather the ability to sense other cats emotions and enter their dreams. Lionblaze gets the power to never be beaten in battle and Dovewing has the ability to see and hear things from really far away, she can even hear everything that goes on on the other side of the lake that live next to. In this book Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Dovewing have been sent a new prophecy that tells them three must become four so they are desperately searching for the fourth cat of the prophecy. They are also preparing against a battle against the dark forest where Ivypool, Dovewing's sister, has been spying when she goes their in her dreams to be trained for the battle. The cats of the dark forest have been training the living clan cats, lying to them to make them believe they aren't doing anything wrong. Ivypool knows they are training for a battle to destroy the clans. The dark forest has started taking it's trainees into the living world to get to know all the different clans territories and tells the trainees they are getting to know the other territories so that the trainees can help each other in any territory if needed, they are really looking for the best ways to ambush the clans and Ivypool sees right through it. The dark forest cats manage to force her into telling all the other trainees all about Thunderclans techniques in battle. I won't go to far in describing the rest of the book but I'll give a brief summary of the main points. The medicine cats have been avoiding each other on starclans demand, starclan is scared and has separated into different territories like how they were when they were alive. Jayfeather finds a way to reunite the medicine cats along with Starclan. At the same time it is revealed to him that Firestar is the fourth cat. Firestar and Jayfeather get all the other medicine cats to meet them at the island where they have their gatherings. Firestar brings Jayfeather, Lionblaze and Dovewing and makes them reveal to the clan leaders the prophecy and their powers, after that Firestar makes a plan with the other leaders to battle against the dark forest as one and the battle begins shortly after resulting in the clans victory.
I found that this book was a good ending to the fourth arc, especially since the third and fourth arc were both revolved around the prophecy. So although it was good and I really enjoyed it I did find a few irritating things within it, mainly how slow the book, along with the other five books from the arc, seemed like their was a lot of running in circles to fill the book and make it the right length which made it quite slow, the rest of the time I was usually just annoyed about something they could have written a bit better but that didn't make the book bad and it did a good job at the start to paint up the mood for the book. I did believe that the battle against the dark forest had seemed a little bit to easy to win but I think they did good at conveying the characters emotions through out it regardless, especially at the start. The characters were written quite well in my opinion and I was happy to silently root for them as I read about their frustrations. It was a good conclusion and I'm excited to read the next arc.
