Did you have a stroke whilst writing this?I'm not kidding when i say kindof.
get some popcorn this is gonna be a SHOW.
So how many of you remember Scholastic book drives? encouraging kids to read you know that stuff good books however alot of them for some reason shared a theme Animals now that i'm older i'm semi aware it was at least somewhat related to marketing but nearly all the books there were animal adjacent yes even the good ones.
and A lot of these stories went for the Animal POV on the more realistic side you get things like Silverwing which is just THE BIBLE but jesus is a bat now (made apperent when the third book has him journey to hell) on the more fantasy side you get things like Guardians of Ga'hool and yes the one that is a bible allegory is the more realistic one. they all crib from Secret of Nymh to varying degrees usually with the "i don't understand these humans" and reaping the drama from that using silverwing as an example again they run into "human traps" and are put in cages and some of them wake up with "silver bands" on their wings some of them assume this means they are doomed some thing that means they are "Chosen" and WE think they just ran into a bunch of scientists trying to track bat migration routes that whole thing.
Why do i say all this?
Because years of this style of writing the rise of general literacy and the decline of those book drives lead to WarriorCats this abomination of psudo mysticism psudo scientific psudo creckpot theory (because animals are dumb) mixed with soap opera drama stupid and contrived as it is and willing to mutilate it's cast is basically honeypotting alot of readers.
I can't speak to the books actual quality but yeah it was a mutant freak years in the making and while some might call it a perfect storm it both missed wider acceptance and everyone who lives through it seems to regret it.
Ill end this saying Silverwing and it's follow ups were fun reads so was Ga'Hool maybe Warrior Cats is too but i also heavily regret reading them not for lack of quality but for being suckered into enjoying a work of 60% copypaste. (100% of these books start with "the exile" the "journey" and have the protagonist return with some newfound knowledge that forgives all their sins)
Warrior cats honestly reminds of old tumblr and minecraft/roblox children, those are two demographics I've seen that like that book.