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Post by Hollyfall on Sept 19, 2023 13:29:45 GMT -5
From what I can tell online, the general consensus of the recent super editions is that they're not really on par with others since they're just rehashing events, just from a different point-of-view. I'm not done with Riverstar's book yet, but so far it feels kind of...underwhelming. From what I can gather people are mostly neutral on it, but the first half is just a rehash of DotC content while the other is just kind of boring. Leopardstar's and Onestar's books at least gave insight to controversial characters and explains why they did the things they did, even if it's mostly just going over events we've seen before.
Personally I think LH was the best out of these three, and I enjoyed that one for what it was worth. But I'm interested in what others think.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2023 13:33:59 GMT -5
I don't like any of these, but I went with Riverstar's Home. I don't agree that the other two at least gave reasons as to why Leopardstar and Onestar did what they did, felt more like lazy excuses that were irritating to read about.
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Post by Jaysnow on Sept 19, 2023 13:57:52 GMT -5
I haven't read Riverstar's Home yet, but out of the first two Onestar's Confession takes the cake.
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Post by کیوان on Sept 19, 2023 14:14:36 GMT -5
Really, I’m just glad that they didn’t make a Clear Sky SE to complete the unholy trifecta of weak justification for unwholesome deeds.
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Post by 「Wιитεяичgнт」 on Sept 19, 2023 14:26:43 GMT -5
I actually enjoyed OC and LH. Riverstar's Home is just boring rehash and lazy even more boring filler to extend it to the length of an SE...
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Post by Sphinxwhisker on Sept 19, 2023 14:51:00 GMT -5
I quite enjoyed Leopardstar’s Honor and Onestar’s Confession. But I’d say Leopardstar’s a bit more overall. Riverstar’s Home was underwhelming, filler and rehash from an arc I didn’t particularly care for to begin with. Along with reused storylines, tropes and themes that have honestly grown pretty old. I guess at least it wasn’t a nightmare like SqH and ThS. Maybe that’s why they made it so tame and tedious to avoid controversial backlash lol.
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Post by stupidflower on Sept 19, 2023 16:40:39 GMT -5
Riverstar’s Home and it’s not even close.
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Post by ✲ριкαƒυєу✲ on Sept 19, 2023 16:53:25 GMT -5
Riverstar's Home by far. Idc if it was uneventful, the typical slice of life feel it had was nice to me. And I liked to see Riverstar's views and thoughts on the events unfolding around him.
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Post by 𝓣𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓵 on Sept 19, 2023 16:57:10 GMT -5
Definitely OC! I really didn't like how LH tried to downplay Leopardstar's actions as much as they possibly could (at same time, they also made her simultaneously worse, such as exiling Mudfur) and Silverstream was incredibly annoying, whereas the closest OC comes to this is really only towards the end, and even then, it seems ambiguous whether we're actually meant to take Onestar's final views on Darktail at his word (that's my interpretation at least). Really, my only gripe is that I wish they could've explored more of his past, like his relationship with his sisters and Firestar and especially everything leading up to the Great Battle in Eclipse. RH meanwhile doesn't even get interesting until the book is practically nearly over and it's incredibly boring watching Riverstar relive the events of DotC otherwise, when he hadn't been all that involved with the main plot in the first place. The RiverClan characters are all great though, especially Night and Drizzle, but god am I tired of them reusing Skystar for the role of antagonist even when we did get new content!
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Post by nowarriornameshere on Sept 19, 2023 17:39:05 GMT -5
Leopardstar's Honor!
...I say this because I haven't read it, and it therefore hasn't had the opportunity to create a negative impression on me like Onestar's Confession and Riverstar's Home have.
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Post by NightFrostSun on Sept 20, 2023 7:03:55 GMT -5
I actually loved all three, but I enjoyed Onestar's Confession the most so I voted for that one. The only super edition I didn't really care for was Squirrelflight's Hope and that is for the same reason I can't stand The Raging Storm, the complete out of character characters. Tigerheart's Shadow was at least decent with the exception of the whole Rippletail/Slatefur fiasco.
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Sept 20, 2023 15:43:05 GMT -5
Have not read Riverstar's Home yet, will read Onestar's Confession starting tomorrow (paperback just arrived in the mail and I will make a thread on it) so my vote for now will be Leopardstar's Honor.
Not because I particularly enjoyed it because of Leopardstar (I didn't) but rather just because it has my boy Tigerstar in it being a complete menace to Clan society and due to having two copies of the book (because the first one was damaged and I got a new one and a refund without having to send the other one back for some reason).
All three of these are certainly weak SEs compared to others before it though but still haven't managed to replace Squirrelflight's Hope as my least favorite SE ever (for now).
My vote might change later on (but I doubt it).
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Post by *Ravenpaw* on Sept 20, 2023 16:36:33 GMT -5
The only super edition I didn't enjoy was Leopardstar's Honor. Onestar's Confession was okay, but I enjoy Riverstar's Home more.
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