where Warrior Cats is concerned, I find book packaging typically creatively bankrupt, let alone a HarperCollins deal with like 7 ghostwriters writing under a psuedonym ... it's not anybody's baby, passion, or pride, it's essentially just a franchise ordered by a publishing company to sell to a niche, to make money, and whenever these sorts of things are wildly successful, I feel kind of bleak. If it was some individual cat lover's passion project and pet world they'd developed, I'd feel more indifferent, but the reality of it is pretty grim to me. I think it shows in the inconsistency of even cat's markings or basic details being lost between books; it's obviously being juggled between ghost writers who don't care. A work created this sort of way kind of can't have coherency, meaning, themes, direction...

As far as I understood the first author didn't even like cats ? and no part of the worldbuilding or world to me, seems to come from someone who loves cats or perhaps even animals ... by comparison, say, Watership Down or even Ga'hoole are more endearingly infodumping you real animal facts, or trying to base their culture and lives on their ecology ... (though I didn't read ga'hoole growing up, I did like Watership Down)

I don't really talk about this because I imagine it would just make 100,000 people angery and feel judged or defensive. And maybe like snip at me for liking, Pokemon, or some other franchise with a very soulless creative team... hypocrite.... . But you know, I don't look down on people who love Warrior Cats, especially people with childhood nostalgia for it, I mean book packaging is successful for a reason ... companies know what kids or tweens or teens want ... arbitrarily, I find Warrior Cats a drag.

As a child it was of course simpler, I just didn't (and don't) like this 'style' of worldbuilding for ferals ?? it feels ahnnn boring and pointless to meee ... whenever there's some sort of, set of rules and religion and a belief system that is Real and True within the series lol, The Warrior Code, starclannnmmm mm clanssssz its offputting. It feels too adjacent to christianity to me at times so, it's not an escapist fantasy ................ I don't want to be subjected to any of this nonsense -.- as a cat... how tedious....

Moreover it's like, if it's not interesting with HUMANS, it's not actually going to suddenly become interesting with ANIMALS. I don't care for some sort of psuedo-tribal spiritualism clan war bullshit glkfjdg;ldlkdjgs;glskg;dgkdsl;g;f I don't care if it's a Medicine Cat ... it's boring ... series of Rules and Roles ...

Redwall is about the same in its own way, I do not care for this, style, of world and universe, either, it doesn't make it better that it is, mice and whatall... there are a lot of series about like tiny knight mice and kings and whatever, I sleep ........... I sleep ..... not a genre of intrigue... things like Warrior Cats or Redwall, I felt like, yeah this is a Genre that Exists and that I am Dodging as a child into ferals, I'm like.. "ughhh but not like this".

these days I just get like sad when I see a cute cat OC and am like KITTY!!! and then its like ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they're always warrior cats lol, I wish I saw more cat OCs in people's own worlds..... can't cats have sex without being apprentices and warriors...