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|''Wings of Fire''
 
|''Wings of Fire''
 
|Tui Sutherland
 
|Tui Sutherland
|''Wings of Fire'' is a book series containing 14 books and counting, chronicling the lives, prophecies, and wars of seven [[dragon]] kingdoms on the continent of Pyrrhia. The first five books tell of five young dragons prophesized to stop a civil war among three desert-dwelling SandWing sisters. The next five tell of a school of dragons formed after the SandWing civil war as they prepare for a prophecy about an ancient evil dragon named Darkstalker, who had been frozen in time for two-thousand years. The next four books after that take place on a different continent - Pantala - where insect-like dragons and plant dragons plan a rebellion against the HiveWing queen. Four novellas, two stand-alone books, and four graphic novels have been released as well; an animated TV series of the books is in the works.
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|''Wings of Fire'' is a book series containing 14 books and counting, chronicling the lives, prophecies, and wars of seven [[dragon]] kingdoms on the continent of Pyrrhia. The first five books tell of five young dragons prophesized to stop a civil war among three desert-dwelling SandWing sisters. The next five tell of a school of dragons formed after the SandWing civil war as they prepare for a prophecy about an ancient evil dragon named Darkstalker, who had been frozen in time for two-thousand years. The next four books after that take place on a different continent - Pantala - where insect-like dragons and plant dragons plan a rebellion against the HiveWing queen. Four novellas, two stand-alone books, and four graphic novels have been released as well; an animated TV series of the books is in the works, directed by the same director as 2018's ''A Wrinkle in Time''.
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While family and friendship are portrayed mostly well, the series has taken a more left-leaning turn in its later books. Homosexuality is sprinkled here and there in the second arc (with a female SeaWing named Anemone liking another female for no reason at all), until the thirteenth book: ''The Poison Jungle'', where Sundew the LeafWing falls in love with another female dragon and doesn't stop thinking about it. Another instance is when Moonwatcher, the mind-reading NightWing, hears a male MudWing dragon swooning over Qibli the male SandWing along with the females. Moral relativism is portrayed as right in the series; an example of that in ''Winter Turning'' has Moonwatcher justifying Icicle's terrorist attack on Jade Mountain Academy by saying that no dragon is really evil and that she was feeling unloved. There is also a feeling of feminism throughout the series, where queens and princesses hold a lot of power in their kingdoms with the kings being only second-in-command. An unsubtle jab against Donald Trump is shown in ''Darkness of Dragons'', where characters react negatively to Darkstalker building a wall around his kingdom and launch into a speech supporting foreign dragons and protesting walls.
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While family and friendship are portrayed mostly well, the series has taken a more left-leaning turn in its later books. Homosexuality is sprinkled here and there in the second arc (with a female SeaWing named Anemone liking another female for no reason at all), until the thirteenth book: ''The Poison Jungle'', where Sundew the LeafWing falls in love with another female dragon and doesn't stop thinking about it. Another instance is when Moonwatcher, the mind-reading NightWing, hears a male MudWing dragon swooning over Qibli the male SandWing along with the females. Moral relativism is portrayed as right in the series; an example of that in ''Winter Turning'' has Moonwatcher justifying Icicle's terrorist attack on Jade Mountain Academy by saying that no dragon is really evil and that she was feeling unloved. There is also a feeling of feminism throughout the series, where queens and princesses hold a lot of power in their kingdoms with the kings being only second-in-command. An unsubtle jab against Donald Trump is shown in ''Darkness of Dragons'', where characters react negatively to Darkstalker building a wall around his kingdom and launch into a speech supporting foreign dragons and protesting walls. ''The Flames of Hope'' - the last book in the third arc - also needlessly introduces a human identifying as neither sex and a dragon having two mothers.
 
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