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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 11, 2022 12:08:33 GMT -5
warriors.fandom.com/wiki/Mistakes_in_the_Warriors_Series/Super_Editions#Leopardstar.27s_Honorsurely this has got to be the longest list of mistakes in any warriors book. typos and stuff don't bother me much, but the sheer amount of plot inconsistencies (Stonefur not being on the Sunningrocks patrol?? Graystripe going to his first RiverClan gathering?) is absolutely ridiculous. does no one on the editing bother to cross-check timeline consistency in concurrent books before approving the newer books?
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Post by *•.¸♡𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦♡¸.•* on Mar 11, 2022 12:21:19 GMT -5
Can't wait to see how many errors Onestar's Confession has
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Post by dreamingof on Mar 11, 2022 12:24:17 GMT -5
Oof
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Post by Sand on Mar 11, 2022 12:27:02 GMT -5
I'm not surprised anymore, not after this list of mistakes.
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Post by Midnightcacoon loves Sunbeam on Mar 11, 2022 12:33:05 GMT -5
They keep on forgetting that Oakheart was not killed by ThunderClan, or his death scene at all for that matter.
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Post by BҽɾɾყႦʅσσɱ on Mar 11, 2022 13:45:34 GMT -5
Big yikes to all of those mistakes.
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Mar 11, 2022 13:56:36 GMT -5
the list of mistakes for this SE is endless...i will definately NOT buy it for sure lmao
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Post by *•.¸♡𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦♡¸.•* on Mar 11, 2022 14:28:15 GMT -5
the list of mistakes for this SE is endless...i will definately NOT buy it for sure lmao I bought it for the cover (wow such a great reason I know) and I don't know if I regret it or not ;-; I still haven't finished it
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Post by rabbit on Mar 11, 2022 14:34:24 GMT -5
Definitely the one of the worst Warriors book I've read. When I finished it I was like "Wow that was bad, did the editors bother to read this before it got finalized?"
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Post by ᏞᎪᎠᎽ Ꮎf fᎪᏁᎠᎾms ミ☆ on Mar 11, 2022 14:40:01 GMT -5
the list of mistakes for this SE is endless...i will definately NOT buy it for sure lmao I bought it for the cover (wow such a great reason I know) and I don't know if I regret it or not ;-; I still haven't finished it when it first came out, i read the spoiler threads and was like "i wont read it" but then months passed and i was like "but i want to read riverclan stuff" so i almost wanted to buy it if it comes out on paperback, but now im reminded about all the errors and retcons and its...just not worth it.
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Post by rabbit on Mar 11, 2022 14:50:32 GMT -5
I bought it for the cover (wow such a great reason I know) and I don't know if I regret it or not ;-; I still haven't finished it when it first came out, i read the spoiler threads and was like "i wont read it" but then months passed and i was like "but i want to read riverclan stuff" so i almost wanted to buy it if it comes out on paperback, but now im reminded about all the errors and retcons and its...just not worth it. This one's a skip to buy. If people really want to read it I recommend pirating borrowing a copy at their local library. Those 20 dollars are best spend somewhere else.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 11, 2022 17:41:12 GMT -5
i actually liked the book well enough. the continuity errors are horrendous though. very clearly a rushed job.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 11, 2022 17:46:30 GMT -5
Feel like their intentionally starting to try an one-up themselves with mistakes with every new release. Either that or the editing team is becoming increasingly lackadaisical and found inactive at his/her work bench. or is taking far too many prolonged coffee and smoke breaks to get anything done, that and they probably haven’t read or even skimmed the older books to at least attempt to maintain continuity of some reasonable degree. the weird part is that SOMEONE must be at least skimming the older books, because characters will repeat direct quotes that they said from the same scene in the older books. and enough stuff lines up correctly that there's clearly some attempt at connecting the two. it means we get really weird content like when Fireheart/Graystripe rescued Mistyfoot's kits. the depiction in LH directly quotes their lines and such from FOS. but then LH has Graypool as the first cat to run out and greet the kits, even though in FOS she doesnt appear in the scene until after Mistyfoot reunites with them. so like??? how did they manage to carefully track character lines but not anything else going on in the scene??
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Post by flipwish on Mar 11, 2022 17:49:11 GMT -5
in contrast: LH is one of the few books that's been released in the series recently that I actually do want to buy because of the errors. They're bad but they're also sooo funny to me
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Mar 11, 2022 18:05:09 GMT -5
The book was good to me and I enjoyed reading Leopardstar's characterization a lot, but the errors 😭 Please get a new editing team, Erins, or even just consult the wiki. This is just so bad. It's so strange that people who edit a wiki for free are better with the books than the official editing team.
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Post by Cloudstorm on Mar 12, 2022 3:39:39 GMT -5
Feel like their intentionally starting to try an one-up themselves with mistakes with every new release. Either that or the editing team is becoming increasingly lackadaisical and found inactive at his/her work bench. or is taking far too many prolonged coffee and smoke breaks to get anything done, that and they probably haven’t read or even skimmed the older books to at least attempt to maintain continuity of some reasonable degree. the weird part is that SOMEONE must be at least skimming the older books, because characters will repeat direct quotes that they said from the same scene in the older books. and enough stuff lines up correctly that there's clearly some attempt at connecting the two. it means we get really weird content like when Fireheart/Graystripe rescued Mistyfoot's kits. the depiction in LH directly quotes their lines and such from FOS. but then LH has Graypool as the first cat to run out and greet the kits, even though in FOS she doesnt appear in the scene until after Mistyfoot reunites with them. so like??? how did they manage to carefully track character lines but not anything else going on in the scene?? I’d about guarantee that Kate is responsible for skimming through the books to make sure the quotes match, given the lack of any apparent editing happening. I mean besides the wonky allegiances, retcons and continuity errors which only are the tip of the iceberg. The book is riddled with grammatical errors, poor sentence diagraming and structuring, doubled words, misspellings, incorrect word choice, misplaced commas and such. Including multiple time skips, and scene changes interjected mid-sentence and mid-page that will make you do a double take, and have to backtrack because your like “what the heck just happened?”. Like no blank spacing on the page to indicate it, or going into a next chapter, starting a new paragraph. just BAM and your train of thought gets jostled off course. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed reading the book, but ngl it kind of feels like reading a uncorrected proof with how frequent the errors are and the atrocious grammar would no doubt cause a etymologist or proper linguist to have a mental meltdown.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2022 16:16:50 GMT -5
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Post by ʀᴀɪɴʟᴇᴀғ 🍁 on Mar 13, 2022 11:07:54 GMT -5
I would buy the books if the editing team went back and re-released the series fixing at least 95% of the mistakes. Essentially a rewrite for some books (looking at you, Redtail's Debt) because some things lack sense that is canon and some mistakes are too glaring to keep in. I think it would be an interesting reread if that did that, because we could get a new family line as well for some cats. (Whitestorm fathering Ashfur severely upsets me.)
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Mar 17, 2022 12:29:18 GMT -5
I would buy the books if the editing team went back and re-released the series fixing at least 95% of the mistakes. Essentially a rewrite for some books (looking at you, Redtail's Debt) because some things lack sense that is canon and some mistakes are too glaring to keep in. I think it would be an interesting reread if that did that, because we could get a new family line as well for some cats. (Whitestorm fathering Ashfur severely upsets me.) it does kinda boggle my mind that they dont like. re-release books with fixed errors. theyve only done it a few times.
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Post by downfalls on Mar 17, 2022 15:49:42 GMT -5
entirely ridiculous but im not surprised. i was originally gonna buy it because i thought it would be cool to see leopardstars backstory, but now im glad i didnt buy it
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Post by Viralstorm on Mar 17, 2022 16:35:41 GMT -5
Feel like the editing team is becoming increasingly lackadaisical and found inactive at his/her work bench. or is taking far too many prolonged coffee and smoke breaks to get anything done, that and they probably haven’t read or even skimmed the older books to at least attempt to maintain continuity of some reasonable degree. Suppose when your a ghostwriter/editor who doesn’t have any public relations with your consumer, and your fans don’t even know your name. and your not the accredited writer that’s taking the heap of either praise or fandom backlash and being booed for your inconsistent work, and don’t have really any investment or possibility of damaging your reputation. one tends not to be compelled to conduct oneself with integrity at times, or just doesn’t feel obligated to care, since regardless of whether or not it’s good, it won’t effect their rep personally. I feel like this is most likely the case: the editor(s) is/are being lazy/bad at their job. I'm not sure how many editors there are for the series in total, but I'm guessing there's usually one editor per book.
I have to wonder if they're usually just some freelancer who doesn't really care/isn't necessarily familiar with the series/doesn't get paid enough to care. They could just check the wiki for quick fact checks, but if they haven't even heard of the wiki it's not likely they will.
I wonder, if many fans flooded HarperCollins's inbox with tons of complaints/"constructive criticism", or tried giving feedback on the matter on the official website to see if they could do something about it, maybe we could get their attention and make a difference. We'll see.
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Post by Hollyfall on Mar 17, 2022 16:40:43 GMT -5
I remember reading the book for the first time and noticing all these. It's sort of sad but amusing at how many glaring mistakes there were.
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Post by Viralstorm on Mar 17, 2022 16:50:07 GMT -5
I would buy the books if the editing team went back and re-released the series fixing at least 95% of the mistakes. Essentially a rewrite for some books (looking at you, Redtail's Debt) because some things lack sense that is canon and some mistakes are too glaring to keep in. I think it would be an interesting reread if that did that, because we could get a new family line as well for some cats. (Whitestorm fathering Ashfur severely upsets me.) I think this would actually be a pretty good/cool idea. Mistakes would get fixed and the publisher would make more money: it's a win-win situation. They would probably need to hire a good, competent group of editors who take their job seriously enough for that, though. This could make the first editions of the books valuable collector's copies, too.
I have little knowledge of how the literature business works exactly, but I do wonder why they've only released corrective copies for just a few books. I suspect it's most likely to do with money, because printing new books costs $$$. And there's probably also the fast release schedule that contributes to it, as they have to get the first editions printing within a certain timeframe. Again, I'm no professional, I don't know much about the book publishing business, these are just my speculations and guessing.
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Post by *Faith* on Mar 23, 2022 16:30:31 GMT -5
I finally started reading and noticed pretty quickly that Oakheart and Redtail's death was listed as having taken place in greenleaf, even though they actually died in newleaf.
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