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For most books, the first time you read them is the most exciting and suspenseful. You don’t know the story, and what’s going to happen next. You can never feel that twice with the same book. It’s why so many of us try to avoid spoilers.
Sunset, on the other hand, is different. Throughout the second arc, you see Brambleclaw’s point of view primarily. You don’t have a sliver of doubt that he might be as evil as his father, and are confident that soon he will stop visiting his father and brother.
You know Hawkfrost is at least somewhat evil too and is entirely under his father’s influence. There’s no doubt in your mind that he will meet an end, like his father before him, soon.
You know precisely how Sunset is going to play out before you read it the first time.
It had been a while since I read Sunset. I remembered how it ended somewhat, and I knew several key things had to happen. Still, I couldn’t remember how it all wrapped up together.
As I got closer to the end of the book, I couldn’t imagine how Brambleclaw was going to kill his brother. Squirrelflight needed to question Brambleclaw’s loyalty again. Leafpool was going to realise her mistake in doubting Brambleclaw. All before it finished.
Seeing everything play out again, and only remembering how it went after I read it, was far more exciting than reading the book the first time. This was when I was on the edge of my seat. This was when I couldn’t wait to see what happened next!
Below is the summary essay for the final book in The New Prophecy arc, Sunset.
The central theme in Sunset is trust. Trust can be influenced by what people say and do. Leafpool struggles with her confidence in Brambleclaw. She knows the cats closest to her, the rest of ThunderClan, and StarClan, all trust, and have shown their approval of him. Yet, Leafpool had seen him in The Place of No Stars talking with Hawkfrost and Tigerstar, who she knows to be untrustworthy. Brambleclaw trusts these cats because they are his blood relatives, and he believes they wan what is best for him and his clan. At the end of the book, Brambleclaw realises that his trust was misplaced, and Leafpool sees her mistrust was unfounded.
The main characters in the book are the protagonists and antagonist. There are two main protagonists, Brambleclaw and Leafpool. Through following both, two views of the story are presented. Brambleclaw is learning where his loyalties lie, and Leafpool shows the reader what this looks like through another’s eyes. The main antagonist in Sunset is Hawkfrost. Although he is often with Tigerclaw, he is the obstacle that Brambleclaw must ultimately overcome at the climax of the story. All the other characters that appear in the book are minor or incidental.
The main situations in the story are listed here. Leafpool is unable to tell Mothwing about the catmint in RiverClan. Hawkfrost blackmails Mothwing into ‘revealing’ a false vision. Leafpool starts visiting Willowshine in dreams to teach her about StarClan and how to interpret visions and signs. Leafpool gets a sign that Brambleclaw should be the deputy of ThunderClan. Tigerclaw tells his sons he plans for them to lead all the clans. Brambleclaw finds Hawkfrost set a trap to kill Firestar. Brambleclaw kills his brother to save Firestar. Leafpool arrives at the scene and realises what has happened.
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