Bluestar is the first cat "profile" (as the book calls them) one reads when oping the Ultimate Guide. Though much of what is written about her coincides with the books, the one detail I cannot look past is how she died.
According to the Ultimate Guide: "...Bluestar gave up her ninth life to lead the dogs over the edge of the gorge...."
Well, one could put it that way. But that's not what actually happened. Let's take a look at Bluestar's death in A Dangerous Path:
"Dazed, [Fireheart] looked up to see a blue-gray shape ramming into the side of the lead dog. "Bluestar!" he yowled. The force of his leader's impact had sent the dog staggering to the very edge of the gorge. Its barking changed to a high-pitched howl of terror as its huge paws scrabbled for a grip on the tuft. The loose soil crumbled away under its weight and it fell, but as it disappeared over the edge its snapping jaw closed on Bluestar's leg, and wrenched her over as well." (Pg 304).
Bluestar was suppose to be at Sunningrocks with the rest of the clan--she was not part of Firestar's (Fireheart's) plan to lead the dogs to the gorge. She came just in time to save Fireheart, and if she had not he surely would have died. I'm not mad that the Guide chose to portray Bluestar's death as heroic--because it was, but not in the way it said. She did not lead the dogs over the edge of the gorge--she was pulled over. She saved Fireheart, though, which gave her death a meaning.
(On a side note, at least Mosskit is called Bluestar's daughter. Then again, Mosskit's gender changes every other time she is mentioned.)
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