I was granted eARC access to Creatures of the Flood by Erin Hunter via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. (Even then it most likely might've been ghost written.) I give it two stars only because of the effort put into writing the book. I could point out several similarities between her recent book series she's done but this review is already long enough. Where we get a new animal world, read it until we finish, wait several months, and in the end it's already the same story line. I just feel that this strategy for her books is getting old. I am not that invested in the characters or the plot so I'm not at the edge of my seat.
I know, I could just wait until they all come out but by the time I wait for them all to come out an entire year has passed already! That's 365+ days to wait until the whole series is released. It would be better if they could just release the whole series at once. What if the animals are warring against a different species like a Romeo and Juliet scenario? What if they discover and explore an urban environment? What if they get relocated to a new foreign environment? What if a hero looks for a lost treasure? I also don't like how they leave us on a cliff hanger and we have to read the next book several months later.
You know, how some books have a kind of cliche plot but put interesting things in it that makes it engaging. I know that at the core most adventure/hero's journey's stories are in essence the same, but this just uses the exact same formula every time. It has to take about 4-6 books to go through this whole plot whereas it takes some novels to just do it in one book. Hero is part of a group, there is sometimes a group bully that is mean to the hero for no reason, the hero finds a seemingly wise mentor/friend who later is bad and power hungry, hero does something good and everyone admires them, something bad happens or the hero is framed by bully and gets kicked out, hero is upset but then musters enough courage to go back, suddenly everyone supports the hero who reveals the villain, villains loses and hero wins. Lately I've noticed, for Erin Hunter's latest books(second Survivors arc, Bravelands, and now this series) that she seems to be using the same plot points.
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