YMMV / Warrior Cats Prequel Super Editions

• Angst Dissonance: Really could apply to any character in the series depending on the reader, but Tallstar is a big contender, at least as a young cat. Since his book came out later than Crookedstar's or Bluestar's, readers will probably read Tallstar's book last. Tallstar spends a lot of time being upset about the way his parents treat him, but Sandgorse is nowhere near as awful as Rainflower was to Crookedstar, and Palebird doesn't neglect him nearly as much as Bluestar's father Stormtail did her, so it's kind of hard to sympathize.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Sparrow comes off as one of these. It's obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of literature and Tallstar's character that he won't kill Sparrow, but it's still kind of dull when, after questing to find and kill Sparrow, Tallstar just gives up and forgives him at the moment of truth.
• Arc Fatigue: Tallstar's Revenge. You know it's about the death of Tallstar's dad Sandgorse, and Tallstar's quest for revenge, but Tallstar's dad doesn't even die until around page two hundred of this five hundred page book. This means that Tallstar spends two hundred pages growing up and having drama with his parents. This isn't uninteresting, but it still mostly not related to the book's purported plot.
• Ass Pull: Some people think this of Yellowfang turning out to have the ability to feel other cats' pain. No cats outside of Nutmeg and her descendants have been known to have special powers, and Yellowfang was in many many books in which she was never implied to have her power.
• Captain Obvious Aesop: In Tallstar's Revenge. Forgiving people is good, and cold-hearted revenge is bad. Bizzarely, they paint angry, spur-of-the-moment revenge as good when Shrewclaw tries to avenge his mother's death in the midst of a battle.
• Cliché Storm: Odds are you've seen the entire plot of Tallstar's Revenge before. But despite this, the writing quality manages to sell it.
• Continuity Lockout:
  • Bluestar's Prophecy probably would be a good place for new fans to jump in to the series...if it didn't feature her death scene from A Dangerous Path as the prologue, and spoil her relationship with Oakheart, and the identities of their kits.
  • Crookedstar's Promise spoils the existence of the Dark Forest, and also Bluestar/Oakheart. Although the Mapleshade stuff is arguably better if you don't know from the start that she's a Dark Forest cat.
  • Yellowfang's Secret spoils Yellowfang/Raggedstar and the fact that Brokenstar is Yellowfang's son.
  • Tallstar's Revenge is the least spoilerful, since knowing about Tallstar/Jake can only make Tallstar's relationship with Firestar seem more special. But the manga is pretty bad for spoilers, since it takes place in series two when Tallstar dies.

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