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| | |''Seekers'' (or ''Seeker Bears'') | | |''Seekers'' (or ''Seeker Bears'') |
| | |Erin Hunter | | |Erin Hunter |
| − | |A companion of the more popular ''Warriors'' series, this book series containing two arcs of six books tells of three North American bears ([[polar bear]] Kallik, [[American black bear]] Lusa, and [[grizzly bear]] Toklo) as they journey with a shapeshifting grizzly bear cub named Ujurak as they try to save the wild from being ruined. The series portrays a heavier environmental message than ''Warriors'', with heavy emphasis on how humans are causing the animals to suffer such as the typical arc of polar bears suffering from melting ice. ''The Last Wilderness'' - the fourth book of the first arc - seems to condemn capitalism by portraying most of the people in favor of drilling oil in the arctic as either evil or at least naïve, and the sixth and final book in the same arc - ''Spirits in the Stars'' - also has a moment of [[ecoterrorism]] near the end, the animals destroying an oil drill and portraying it at the right thing to do. The second and final arc - ''Return to the Wild'' - is tamer in condemning humans compared to the first arc (such as when Lusa ends up being briefly cared for in an animal sanctuary in ''The Burning Horizon''), though some of it still comes up. | + | |A companion of the more popular ''Warriors'' series, this book series containing two arcs of six books tells of three North American bears ([[polar bear]] Kallik, [[American black bear]] Lusa, and [[grizzly bear]] Toklo) as they journey with a shapeshifting grizzly bear cub named Ujurak as they try to save the wild from being ruined. The series portrays a heavier environmental message than ''Warriors'', with heavy emphasis on how humans are causing the animals to suffer such as emphasizing polar bears suffering from melting ice. ''The Last Wilderness'' - the fourth book of the first arc - seems to condemn capitalism by portraying most of the people in favor of drilling oil in the arctic as either evil or at least naïve, and the sixth and final book in the same arc - ''Spirits in the Stars'' - also has a moment of [[ecoterrorism]] near the end, the animals destroying an oil drill and portraying it at the right thing to do. The second and final arc - ''Return to the Wild'' - is tamer in condemning humans compared to the first arc (such as when Lusa ends up being briefly cared for in an animal sanctuary in ''The Burning Horizon''), though some of it still comes up. It is also the first of Erin Hunter's works to finally finish its series, the second being ''Survivors'' (another two-arc book series about dogs surviving an earthquake in the city). |
| | |Xenofiction Fantasy | | |Xenofiction Fantasy |
| | |2008-2016 | | |2008-2016 |
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| | |''Wings of Fire'' | | |''Wings of Fire'' |
| | |Tui Sutherland | | |Tui Sutherland |
| − | |''Wings of Fire'' is a book series containing 15 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''. | + | |''Wings of Fire'' is a book series containing 15 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 for Netflix - directed by the same director as 2018's ''A Wrinkle in Time'' - was cancelled in 2022 along with other woke projects. |
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| − | While family and friendship are portrayed mostly well in the first arc, 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 has her entire character revolved around it. Another instance is when Moonwatcher, the mind-reading NightWing, hears a male MudWing dragon - a brother of first-arc protagonist Clay - 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. | + | While the first arc was mainly politically neutral (emphasizing on values like friendship and family, which were 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 has her entire character revolved around it. Another instance is when Moonwatcher, the mind-reading NightWing, hears a male MudWing dragon - a brother of first-arc protagonist Clay - 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. |
| | |Fantasy | | |Fantasy |
| | |2012- | | |2012- |