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A review by skylacine
Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World by Tui T. Sutherland
*Sigh* Boy was this a disappointment. This took me weeks to finish.
I'm not usually one to really enjoy these type of guide books (similar to the Warriors Field Guides) but this one was TOUGH to get through even by those standards. It was so boring and just feels like a bunch of random bits cobbled together rather than a fully fledged out guide book about the species and lore of this world. Heck, the fan-Wikia does a much better job of this than this official book does.
It's just boring text after unrelated text with the only theme tying them together that they're themed around each one or a few dragons of each species writing to Starflight. But the texts are otherwise unrelated and instead of being actually very insightful on each species and the lore they're usually just silly throwaways about the dragons ranting about something. It doesn't give us a lot of new insight we didn't previously have, aside from a few sections. They also didn't even bother to include a section about scavengers/humans (from a scavenger's perspective I mean), which are just as much a part of this world by arc three as the dragons are. I know this is a book aimed at a younger audience, but if you're gonna call yourself a guide, please be an actual guide book with relevant information on the world and lore, and not whatever this is.
The only saving grace preventing me from giving it a one-star rating is the unique formatting and many beautiful illustrations. But aside from that I think there's not much of value to be found here.
PS: Do not buy this book for your e-reader like I did thinking it'd be okay, it completely messes up the formatting and becomes unreadable (at least on my device). I had to read this book on my laptop because the e-reader couldn't handle it.
I'm not usually one to really enjoy these type of guide books (similar to the Warriors Field Guides) but this one was TOUGH to get through even by those standards. It was so boring and just feels like a bunch of random bits cobbled together rather than a fully fledged out guide book about the species and lore of this world. Heck, the fan-Wikia does a much better job of this than this official book does.
It's just boring text after unrelated text with the only theme tying them together that they're themed around each one or a few dragons of each species writing to Starflight. But the texts are otherwise unrelated and instead of being actually very insightful on each species and the lore they're usually just silly throwaways about the dragons ranting about something. It doesn't give us a lot of new insight we didn't previously have, aside from a few sections. They also didn't even bother to include a section about scavengers/humans (from a scavenger's perspective I mean), which are just as much a part of this world by arc three as the dragons are. I know this is a book aimed at a younger audience, but if you're gonna call yourself a guide, please be an actual guide book with relevant information on the world and lore, and not whatever this is.
The only saving grace preventing me from giving it a one-star rating is the unique formatting and many beautiful illustrations. But aside from that I think there's not much of value to be found here.
PS: Do not buy this book for your e-reader like I did thinking it'd be okay, it completely messes up the formatting and becomes unreadable (at least on my device). I had to read this book on my laptop because the e-reader couldn't handle it.