The Lost Heir

My son got the first series of this book from school and really liked it, read through it way too fast. His Aunt got him the next several books in the series and he’s been flying through those. He enjoys the books and is exciting for the next. My sister-in-law, an avid book reader, started reading them with him and noted there is a lot of teenage angst, laziness, and whiny-ness that is portrayed by the dragons and she didn’t care for that so much. It’s tricky because the more my son sees, reads, experiences these kinds of attitudes, responses etc the easier it is for him to learn that as how he handles situations. So I have to be careful with what he reads, sees, etc. to counter some of it with what is the right way to handle situations. Overall, I’d still recommend this series.

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Wings of Fire is an expansive Middle Grade series taking place in a violent war where dragons are being slaughtered left and right in a race to see which SandWing princess can win the war and claim the crown or take over the world. The Lost Heir is book two in this series and follows the story of Tsunami and her friends as they travel to find her parents.

Tsunami is my least favorite of the dragonets after Starfight. Both of them have such know-it-all personalities that it drives me nuts. Granted, as these are children’s books, the characters grow out of it, and I like the character development that Tsunami has in this book. You see the thoughts behind her actions and watch as she has to take a step back and realize just because she is a princess and is the fiercest of the dragonets doesn’t mean she knows everything or is equip to take on every problem by her methods. This is proven in the very beginning of the book where the dragonets are hiding from a SkyWing patrol and Tsunami nearly kills one of the SkyWings because she reacts to his yawning as a threat (she didn’t see the yawn as he was facing away from her). This causes a rift between her and the others, but this is what allows her to grow and understand she needs to watch a bit before she acts.

I love how the dragons are developed through this book. You get a great picture of how kind, stern, and somewhat egotistical Queen Coral is. Blister is absolutely terrifying and needs to die because she’s too smart for her own good.

The descriptions of the SeaWing palaces are super well done and easy to visual the richness of the world we live in. Animus dragons are introduced in this book as well (they were mentioned in book one), and their powers are both amazing and terrifying. Animus dragons have a mixture of telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to enchant objects. The magic is explained to be hereditary but no one knows where it came from.

All-in-all, this was a great sequel to the first book and did a wonderful job developing the world in a subtle way. Sending the drgaonets off to find their families allows Tui Sutherland to develop each character individually as well as the world around them and increase the conflict in the story as they meet people who wish to kill, use, or imprison them.