Well, if Ivypool wasn't there, can you imagine what would have really happened? An if you think about it,
Firestar
is the fourth cat because Kin of your kin can go any way.
Firestar --> His mother/father --> Firestar
Firestar --> His daughters --> Firestar
Plus,
I think he was leader for long enough. Indeed, I loved him just like I did all the rest of the characters, but he would have died soon anyways. He had one life left and he was extremely old, so one way or another, he would have moved on.
I think that they should make one more book. Just one. And it should be on what happened and everything after the war and stuff. Kinda like (if you read the last book of Harry Potter) how in the end, Harry Potter went on a little farther and showed a little of what happened even after everything was over...
I just have to admit, the very first time I read warriors, I was thinking it'd be some ordinary cat book about how to raise your cats and everything and I couldn't understand why, or even
how, there was a sixth book. But I kept reading anyways and I'm so glad I did!
And when I imagine the deputies getting their nine lives and names, I see the starclan warriors as being like super large projections with star-dew-mist stuff on their pelt and around their feet. I wish I could draw what I imagine, but it'll be a terrible fail if I try...