Darri's Grove reviewed The quest of the cubs by Kathryn Lasky (Bears of the ice -- Book 1)
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3 stars
Progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens.
I also found the characters to be incredibly shallow and I’m growing tired of the “children with special abilities” trope, something that littered Laskys previous series “Wolves of the Beyond” they’re all different than others. I liked when Soren was just some owl who got owlnapped and that was all he had going for him from the very beginning. His dread of the pure ones and his will and faith to find the guardians was genuinely interested and I wanted to find out what happened to Soren after each book. But with these two new series, Wolves and Bears, nothing really sets them apart as special anymore. With Faolan, he had his splayed paw which left him an outcast, but that was taken away and didn’t really become much of an issue later. Now we have 3, three, …
Progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens, progress, something bad happens.
I also found the characters to be incredibly shallow and I’m growing tired of the “children with special abilities” trope, something that littered Laskys previous series “Wolves of the Beyond” they’re all different than others. I liked when Soren was just some owl who got owlnapped and that was all he had going for him from the very beginning. His dread of the pure ones and his will and faith to find the guardians was genuinely interested and I wanted to find out what happened to Soren after each book. But with these two new series, Wolves and Bears, nothing really sets them apart as special anymore. With Faolan, he had his splayed paw which left him an outcast, but that was taken away and didn’t really become much of an issue later. Now we have 3, three, special powers bears.
I felt this book was very similar to that of the fourth book in the Wolves series. The traveling happened, but I never felt like the character really went anywhere. The Roguers were a major big bad in this book, and yet I never really felt like the characters were in any real danger. Part of me wished they had gotten captured at the end just to see how these bears managed to escape, or stop the clock. Instead, they escaped the roguers and get to go on yet another long journey to find the forever frost cave. I’m going to read on, but I don’t have much interest in a third traveling book.
I’ll be taking a break from Lasky’s books for a moment.