#Wings of fire book 6 series

This piece of the story provides an opportunity for readers to confront our own claims of being the most important animal on the planet, the only animal capable of complex feelings. They flippantly wonder about the inner lives of “scavengers,” whether or not they have emotions or feel pain or care about things the way dragons do. I found Sutherland’s treatment of humans interesting because the dragons of Pyrrhia view humans much as we in the human-dominated world view rats or squirrels or any of our animal food sources - with arrogance. Horrifying, and yet, in the context of the scene, it defined the careless apathy of the villain dragon. In one scene in book one, a villain dragon bites a human’s head off quite suddenly. The story is set in wartime, after all, and the dragons’ perception of “scavengers” (humans) is dismissive and violent. Some parents have complained that the books are overly violent and graphic.

#Wings of fire book 6 series

I think this is why so many adults end up getting sucked into the series right along with their kids. She writes the way I expect a writer of an adult-targeted thriller to write: with tension and forward motion in every scene. She draws the reader to the center of the action without wasting words and without pandering to her younger audience with overly simplistic descriptions and dialogue. Sutherland’s writing is energetic, heartfelt, and clever.

None of them has any special powers or strengths that would lead anyone to believe they are capable of saving the world. But these dragonets, hidden away in a secret cave for their own protection as they train for their great mission, are basically just a band of rag-tag misfits. The book opens with a prophecy about 5 dragonets who are destined to finally end the war that has been raging through Pyrrhia for years. Sutherland had me hooked from book one, The Dragonet Prophecy - yes, “dragonet” means adolescent dragon. I’d try to get to know the world of Pyrrhia and its dragon tribes a bit so I would have some idea about these supposedly “amazing” characters my kids could not stop yammering on about.Īuthor Tui T. I finally agreed I’d at least give the first book a chance. And one day my daughter burst into my office to exclaim with glee that there were “gay dragons” in the story now. They were reading the books more than once and debating at the dinner table whether or not a character named “Darkstalker” was born a sociopath or made into one by a unique set of life experiences. They were watching fan-made cartoons of the series on YouTube and filling their sketchbooks with their own personal visions of the various dragon characters. I’d never seen them so immersed in a book series. It sounded weird though - dragons who talk? A small band of misfit “dragonets” out to save the world? It sounded like any other kids’ book series, and it definitely didn’t fit my usual preferred adult-targeted genres.īut my kids wouldn’t stop pressing me to at least give the books a try. For a solid year, my kids begged me to read Wings of Fire, a book series about dragons with which they’d become obsessed, and for that whole year, I brushed them off.