The Lost Continent

My son was extremely disappointed that the author wrote in a female dragon having more than a crush on another female dragon. It ruined it for him. This is a kids book. Very disappointing.

This is the eleventh book in the Wings of Fire series and starts a new storyline on a new continent we have never visited before. Although some of the story elements are very similar to previous books, I did really enjoy meeting new characters and exploring both whole new types of dragons and a whole new landscape. I continue to read these mainly because my son reads this series and likes to discuss it with me; however I actually really enjoyed this book! This book starts with a prequel featuring Clearwater and her journey across the seas to a new continent of Dragons. The new continent is called Pantala. There are new types of dragons on Pantal including HiveWings, LeafWings, and SilkWings. After this prequel we journey many centuries into the future where a SilkWing named Blue is preparing for his Metamorphosis along with his sister Luna. This book introduces a whole bunch of new dragon types and some great new fun characters. I loved Blue with his quiet tentativeness and Cricket with her non-traditional HiveWing views. All the characters in here are a lot of fun. The new world is interesting as well. There was a lot of adventure, some awesome fight scenes, and lots of new and interesting dragon-abilities and politics. Overall this was a fun and quick read that I enjoyed a lot. I really enjoyed the new and creative setting and the new types of dragons. My son also really loved this book. Sutherland continues to write an intriguing adventure fantasy series that has fun characters and is highly entertaining to read. Recommended to those who enjoy middle grade fantasy adventure featuring dragons.

My son (age 11) is a huge fan of the book series, and this one is LOVES. To the point he shoved it in my face and said that I have to read it. Took me a few days to sit my 36 year old butt down, and start reading it. And WOW. Its a really good book!!! Highly recommend it!!!

Rereading definitely made me appreciate the world of The Lost Continent even more than the first time. The relationship between the SilkWings and HiveWings is so utterly heartbreaking. Queen Wasp\’s usage of a pacifistic society is sickening and a little too realistic, in some ways. SilkWings are raised with good food and homes and education, but they are forced into breeding programs (nothing as inhumane as warehouses or sex slaves, but they are told whom they can be mated with and so on), trained for specific jobs and only those jobs, seen as second class citizens, and dissension and \”misbehavior\” is dealt with severely. Young SilkWings are taken every school year to the jail and forced to see what will happen if they misbehave. SilkWings who mature into flamesilks are thrown into dark pits and forced to spin their silk as a commodity for the HiveWings, controlled entirely by Queen Wasp. The dank caves with timed feeding is considered preferable by its inhabitants because, as Admiral tells Blue near the end of the book, \”there used to be chains.\” This easy manipulation of power by Wasp and the devotion of the HiveWings–who unknowingly are pawns to Wasp as well–makes her one of the most interesting villains to date. Everything about this book makes me think about if Blister had become queen of the SandWings in the first series cycle. This is the series of \”what happens after the evil queen wins the throne.\” I cannot wait to see how this plays out over the next four books. I find the characters to be fascinating, complex–though still needing development–and I want to learn more about Wasp, the war, and the geography of the continent.

This is an amazing book!(must read) i love all the new tribes and for future books i suggest a wind dragon. That would be awesome anyways great book you should read it.

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