Tree's Roots

I love this book! I love the layers of the title, and the characterisation of Tree and the Sisters.

This book introduces us to the Sisters very differently from how we were introduced to the Clans. It is very negative portrayal, but I think it is still done well. It highlights the reverse sexism of their society, and how Tree, at the time Earth, feels less loved by his mother for no reason except that he's a tom. When his best friend Stream dies, the Sisters mourn the she-cat Haze that died as well and do not mourn Stream, which Earth finds unfair and upsetting and also leaves him very lonely.

I really like how he decided to follow the Sisters after he leaves as it demonstrates his need for them and how he only becomes a capable cat once he meets his father, Root.
I love that his father is called Root. It connects with the title and it adds some extra meaning to Rootspring's name which I also like. I think it's a bit strange how soon Root dies, but I understand that they needed him dead for him to save Tree and Pebbleshine.

Pebbleshine's Kits and Tree's Roots work very well together with them happening at the same time and meeting each other, and them being in the same three-in-one novella set. It does, however, separate Mothwing's Secret from them.
I like how Root is the first ghost that Tree sees, as it represents how important their relationship was and how Tree actually getting more help from his father and being able to be at peace with his unfair past with the Sisters means he can access the ability that the Sisters said he should be able to.

I feel like the book ended a bit abruptly, but as it's a novella it can't be too long. I think it added a very interesting part to Tree's life that we did need answers to, and makes me want to reread his later meeting with the Sisters in Squirrelflight's Hope.