Top 10 Best Wings of Fire Books

The Top Ten
1 Darkstalker

I began reading this book with the lowest expectations imaginable, because I had learned to distrust prequels. But this book blew them right out of the water. I LOVED IT! This is definitely on my top ten list for best books. I absolutely adored reading it. I loved all of the details about NightWing school and their culture, as well as seeing more of Clearsight and Listener, and INDIGO and WHITEOUT! I love Whiteout, and I even love Darkstalker, though Indigo is probably still my favorite character. All of the primary and secondary characters in this book rock, and I totally recommend reading it! It totally deserves its first-place rank!

Ok, this book is a great book. I love seeing things from three people's perspectives.

Fathom is a careful, worrying dragon who looks out for his friend and doesn't want him to become homicidal. Darkstalker, however, never listens and continues using his magic scroll, worrying poor Fathom more and more. Darkstalker could save him the stress by stopping his use of magic.

Clearsight is a sweet cinnamon bun who wants to make sure Darkstalker's spells aren't evil. She loves reading them with her. She tries guiding Darkstalker on the right paths, but he is stubborn, claiming he's on the best paths for the future. This leads him to nearly getting killed by an assassin the queen hired to murder Darkstalker.

Darkstalker wants to protect his sister, ensure his mother's safety, convince Clearsight that he's fine, and that the paths he's taking will lead him to become king with Clearsight by his side and six adorable dragonets. He always ignores Fathom but is a good friend to him.

For example, he enchanted a bell to ring when Fathom was lonely, and on the first day they met, Darkstalker took him out of the party to the ocean. All these things are the best things about Darkstalker's book. Here are a few more things I love about his book:

1. I love learning more about Darkstalker's past, his best friend, and beloved.

2. All the little problems like the IceWing-NightWing war in the background, and Quickstrike trying to kill Darkstalker are just the small snacks between each meal that keep you reading.

3. This might make me sound like a murderer, but the royal massacre at the start was the best bit that hooked me in. It prompted me to read more of the story. I loved reading about it and the aftermath. Fathom's fears make sense when you remember the massacre he was involved in. No wonder he was nervous about being at Darkstalker's party!

4. It is a generally good book and definitely deserves its title as number one.

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2 The Brightest Night

*SPOILER WARNING* Finally, a book about Sunny, my favorite dragonet! The beginning, even the first page, was filled with action. The NightWings are in the rainforest, Starflight is injured, and Sunny gets kidnapped. We finally get to see how clever Sunny actually is on the inside. And it was so wholesome when Thorn and Sunny reunited. (Even if Qibli kind of ruined the moment.) Then, Sunny gets kidnapped yet again, and we're thrown into even more epic action and suspense. The ending is beautiful, so beautiful. (Everyone says Clay getting bitten was so sad and scary, but I was just laughing my head off at everyone's reactions.) Beautiful, classic book, I love it.

I just finished this one. It's pretty cool! Here are the reasons: 1. Sunny meets her parents. 2. Burn and Blister died, Blaze was the sister who survived. 3. Thorn becomes queen. 4. Preyhunter's death. 5. They introduced Qibli. 6. They meet Flower, Smolder's pet scavenger. 7. They find out Queen Scarlet is alive.

3 Moon Rising

It was a great introduction to the second arc. It was a great way to show everything from Moon's point of view. The graphic novel images need major tweaking, but that can wait. The novel is great. I never thought Winter was a brat, but I don't ship him with Moon. Moon is also my favorite character, so it's probably obvious that I would vote for this book.

What really stands out to me is the fact that Moon doesn't want to use her powers. The mind-talking was also very good. However, it's a bad book to re-read. It got really trashy before Carnelian died. And some of the other characters, like Ostrich, got too much attention, and at times, I kind of forgot that Moon was the protagonist.

Icicle attempting to murder Starflight was a nice ending, and also the fact that Hailstorm was alive even though I never liked Hailstorm. This should be number two. In my opinion, it's better than The Brightest Night. It's a great book because Moon is just the best character. - Amethyst the NightWing Animus

4 The Lost Heir

I love Tsunami, and I was so excited when I got to read her book. The Lost Heir has so many twists and turns and AWESOME characters like Coral, Anemone, Auklet, and interesting villains like Orca. And it obviously has the best main character, Tsunami!

Only vote this for Tsunami. I'm so glad that The Hidden Kingdom is farther down. GO TSUNAMI!

- Tsunami of the SeaWings
I am a boy. Don't hate me.

I wish Tsunami had just killed Coral. Don't call me evil because if it wasn't for Anemone being there, Tsunami would have killed Coral without hesitation. I also like how when Coral asks Tsunami about Gill, Tsunami just plays it innocent. I love Tsunami so much. Also, GO RIPNAMI!
-Tsunami of the SeaWings

5 Darkness of Dragons

We get to see Qibli. Qibli is great. Qibli was abused. Despite this, Qibli never wanted to see his family again, but he went there anyway to save Ostrich.

He defends Thorn and her secrets from Vulture and doesn't tell him anything. He risked his life escaping Vulture's compound to give Thorn an earring to protect her from Darkstalker. This just shows his amazing loyalty to dragons he really cares about. Yes, he has his flaws. And yes, he's trying to be better.

But there are times when he has the right to be power-seeking, and he has the right to desire animus power sometimes. If the universe had given him animus powers, he would've changed the world with it.

After casting a small spell to make everyone like him, of course. But he would only do that because of his childhood. He only wants to be liked to prove to his mother that he isn't a waste of scales.

His loyalty, his faith, and his hope to make others happy and the world safe are just what is good about Qibli. There are a million things that are good about him, and of course, he has flaws, everyone does. But if Glory wasn't my favorite character, Qibli would beat her by a mile.

His book just tells us more about his childhood, his loyalty, his faith, and his life. He is a fantastic dragon, and his book is so good I can't even put it into words.

6 The Hidden Kingdom

I am being biased and I don't care.
The Hidden Kingdom should totally be number one or two! Glory is such a great character, and I absolutely loved her book! I also liked the way Tui made her and Deathbringer meet. It was perfect. I also love how there was the perfect balance between seriousness and comedy in the book.

I'm very biased on this because Glory is my favorite character, but I think this book should be the number one or at least number two best book.

Glory is so amazing! I can't believe it is only 6th. It totally should be 1st! Glory may be sarcastic at times, but that just makes her better. One of the reasons I like this book is because it introduces Kinkajou, who should TOTALLY have her own book. I was disappointed when she didn't. It also introduces Deathbringer, who is amazing, and the RainWings (especially Kinkajou and Glory) are my favourite tribe.

Also, I love how Glory isn't afraid to use her venom (or acid). Although I really like The Dangerous Gift, The Hidden Kingdom is still my favourite.

7 Winter Turning

Amazing character development. Winter starts as a snotty royal jerk but learns that his tribe is wrong about many of their accusations, and he doesn't have to support them. I feel like the progress done with him is forgotten in later books, though.

Winter had the best character development, unlike Snowfall. Seeing how he fell in love with Moon and turned out almost a different character. The only problem with the development is that it seemed to be forgotten the moment Book 9 came into motion.

*SPOILER ALERT* I like this book because - and not only - Winter discovers that his tribe is wrong in many ways. I found out about two of the IceWing "tests" for dragonets:

- At one year old, IceWing dragonets must survive a blizzard.
- At two years old, IceWing dragonets must catch a polar bear.

Honestly, I knew IceWings were harsh, but not THIS harsh. I got a bit confused at the Diamond Trial part, and I would fix the part where Hailstorm was bleeding despite not attacking Foeslayer.

Anyway, the book was great and should be rated higher. - Jaguar the RainWing.

P.S. This is so funny, the 7th book in 7th place!

8 Talons of Power

Turtle is underrated. He beat Anemone in an animus fight, even though she was more willing to use her magic. Turtle's book is the best SeaWing point of view book in the series. The end of the book was a great cliffhanger when Turtle was kept prisoner by Darkstalker in the old City of Night. Turtle thinks of his life as a story (which sometimes I do too), and that was kind of funny because it was the effect of reading his mother's scrolls. I wanted to read it forever! Some of it was boring, like at the beginning, but then it got so much better towards the end of the book! - Amethyst the NightWing Animus

I love this book, especially at the end. The animus fight between Anemone and Turtle was amazing. Darkstalker was good, but the only thing wrong with it was that Qibli almost never showed up except for the part where he meets him in the hallway and Qibli asks Turtle if Turtle could spy for him on Darkstalker.

There was also the Kingdom of Night, which was really interesting. I also liked how Anemone got kicked out of the Night Kingdom because she hit my favorite character, Moonwatcher, on the head with a broom, and she also just complains about everything. It was also sort of funny to picture Stonemover still encased in stone with no cave background because that's what happened when Darkstalker called all the animi in Pyrrhia to come to his throne room. - Moongazer the Mindreader of the NightWings

9 The Poison Jungle

*SPOILER WARNING* It was action-packed and introduced new characters, like Hazel, Mandrake, and Nettle. It had a big action scene and twist with Hawthorn when they found out he was under the Othermind, and when Willow killed him! There was a good ending, in my opinion, for the last chapter, but then the epilogue with Jerboa and Snowfall brought too much suspense! I can't wait for book 14!

*SPOILER WARNING* Amazing book! I love Mandrake, Nettle, Hawthorn, and all the amazing characters! Sundew and Willow's relationship is so adorable, and I love how Tsunami and Turtle are in the book too. The plot twist with the Othermind was NOT what I was expecting, and I'm so excited for them to meet the Pyrrhian dragons! Phenomenal!

I absolutely love this book. Sundew's point of view really shows how tragic the LeafWings really are. The end of the book was SPECTACULAR! It's a huge cliffhanger! Just like, Oh no! The jungle is on fire! What do we do?

10 Escaping Peril

I've always liked Peril somehow. She has changed a lot. I thought that Peril actually loves Clay too much and their relationship is somewhat one-sided. It was such a relief that Ruby finally challenged Queen Scarlet. Peril was a killer, but now she's not. I bet that she probably would no longer believe that dragons are born for killing. (Glad that Ruby got rid of the arena)

*SPOILER WARNING* This book is really underrated! Everyone says it's boring, but it's really not! The most boring part is when Turtle and Peril are going on the journey (and everyone starts shipping Pertle, the worst ship ever), but even that part is really exciting. The end is the best part. When Scarlet takes over the kingdom and all the drama starts. For those of you who still want a Kinkajou book, admit it, this is ten times better than any Kinkajou point of view could ever be. I love love LOVE this book, and I hope you agree.

The Contenders
11 The Dragonet Prophecy

This book is very worth reading. It is kind of the beginning of everything. I wonder how you feel about it, but it's confusing. It still makes a pretty awesome start. Everything seemed more clear when I reread it after the first 5 books.

Also, this book is pretty violent. My mother yelled at me when I used it to freak out my younger sister. It kind of drove her insane. (She's yelling all over the place about how she's extremely mad at Queen Scarlet)

Ok, so this is the story of me reading this: Me and my family were on vacation. I checked out The Dragonet Prophecy, and we drove back to our hotel. I got into my bed and started reading it. Then I got to the part where Glory kills Fjord and screamed at the top of my lungs. Someone knocked on our hotel door, and my mom answered it. A lady asked who was screaming, and my mom got mad at me. I showed her the dead Fjord, and my mom fainted. The lady walked away, and I woke my mom up. After that, I started just reading the chapter books, NOT the graphic novels.

12 The Lost Continent

It's a bit interesting at the start, you know, getting to know what the hives are like and Blue's life. But then the whole escaping part, and when Cricket comes into the scene, is just kind of boring. Besides, I've never liked Cricket.

This book took me three weeks to read, just because it's so boring. It's really overrated, and I don't see why so many people think it's this good.

OMG, this is literally the best book because Blue is so entrusting in the laws, and I like to see him break them. It's so cute when he meets Cricket and has a lot of different points of view. Lots of action. It's the first one with a different continent, so it's nice to have a change.

13 The Dark Secret

Me: Gets to the part where Viper dies.
Me: *Looks away from red things that look like lava*.
Me: *Takes a deep breath and looks on the floor*.
Me: Looks at my family that is asleep.
Me: *Tries to go back to sleep*.
Me: *Hears a big splash and almost screams*.
My mom: Sorry! I was grabbing water!

This book. I was excited for a NightWing book since they are my favorite tribe. But this was amazing. I don't like Starflight that much, but this book was so dark I just loved it.

A lot of people hate this book, but I love it. It takes advantage of the setting not changing to kinda slow down before the finale and get some information. I LOVE Starflight, and his arc here was SO inspiring.

It left me with some great setup for Book #5, and it has the BEST final battle in the entire series.

14 The Hive Queen

I like the way Cricket is different from other HiveWings. Luna's book shows the reader that HiveWings are somewhat evil (page _ with _ as the "evil" HiveWing), and when you look at Queen Wasp, you can actually see the anger and need for power. However, when you look at Cricket, you see a big, mushy heart that likes Blue and wishes to save the whole continent and free her tribe! I think this book should be second, after Darkstalker's book.

- Webs the WebWing

I feel like Cricket is super silly but really cool too. The queen's mind control starting to be solved, Cricket being arrested, SO MUCH MYSTERY! The ending is a little slow, so I'm gonna give it a 9/10.

Cricket is probably the best character ever. The book, The Hive Queen, wasn't my favorite book, but it was still pretty good. Cricket saved Sundew when she was trapped in the sundew, in the Poison Jungle, by saying that the color blue attracts Teste flies. And Bumblebee also saved the day too (kind of). I don't really like Swordtail that much (no offense) because he doesn't like Cricket that much. I also like Sundew a lot.

Please vote for The Poison Jungle and The Hive Queen!

15 Dragonslayer

I'm currently reading this because I've finished all the series books. Wren's chapters were the best, with her and Sky. The capital letters in the book were fun to read. Honestly, there was nothing wrong with Wren's chapters. They were well-presented and written.

Ivy's chapters are my second favorite. Ivy and her two friends, Violet and Daffodil, become Wingwatchers and try to find out the secrets of Ivy's father, Dragonslayer.

Leaf's chapters are my least favorite. They were boring and never got to the point, especially when they are trapped inside a box going to be eaten. I mean, Leaf is going somewhere (I haven't finished the book yet in 2023) and at the first chapter he has, he's just such a jerk to dragons and he has to announce it.

Anyway, great protagonists, but anyone can replace Leaf. Rowan would have been a better protagonist than him. - Amethyst the NightWing Animus

I love this book because it introduces Ivy, who is officially my favorite scavenger. And Sky! Sky is in this book! Wren, Sky, and Ivy are the reason I love this book.

16 The Dangerous Gift

*SPOILER ALERT* Snowfall was unlikeable at the beginning of her book, being all bossy and unqueen-like. I was so happy to finally get the perspective of a queen. The ring really changed her into a better character than she started out as. I love how Snowfall is so dramatic about the Rankings Wall that was so "torturous" and "awful!" Crystal is a jerk and Snowfall shouldn't have given her permission to marry that MudWing freak.

I love the book and it was great at the end when they smashed the Great Ice Cliff, despite Snowfall thinking at the beginning of the book that the only sane animus was the one that created the Great Ice Cliff. I didn't like Mink though (like AT ALL). Mink was just a stinker who loved everyone too much and tried to take the throne. - Jaguar the RainWing

Favorite by far. Snowfall, my favorite character. Pantala, my better continent. I just love it. It's so cool how Tui put an IceWing in with that arc, especially because Winter's book sucks and was my least favorite. Oooh, IceWing least favorite and (better) IceWing first. Anyway, the best one book. Oh, and also, it was the first I read in the series.

17 Assassin

This winglet book is just great. I loved reading it and watching Deathbringer grow and become a better assassin. I think it's ranked too low. It should definitely be in the top 15.

Deathbringer is my favorite character in the whole series, and I was upset that he just got a winglet and not a whole book. But this was still the best winglet, and it was pretty good.

Assassin was the best Winglets book. It's cool to see things from Deathbringer's perspective, and it's a great story. Also, they made Deathbringer too old because now he's nearly twice Glory's age.

18 The Flames of Hope

Fine. However, I wish Luna actually was in the action. I only put it here because it's slightly better than other books. If I had a choice about how many books I could put as my favorites, this one wouldn't be a part of it. Would have done top 9.

I loved this book! Dusky! Lizard! Drama! I loved every inch of this, and I absolutely adore it. It had me giggling, grimacing, having goosebumps, and laughing out loud. A wonderful ending to this series, it deserves to be higher on the list.

MORE MYSTERY! (spoiler alert!) It was super crazy at the end when Lizard and Cottonmouth came into the story and gave Luna and Dusky those visions.

19 Runaway

My friends ALWAYS ask, Are the Winglets ever WORTH READING? And me? Well, YES! I love the Winglets, especially this one specifically. I'm a complete Foxflake fan through and through.

Have a wonderful day to those who took their time to read this comment!

- Casting Shadows (NightSand Hybrid)

My favorite character of all is Princess Snowfox. I'm obsessed with her. She deserves to be queen, and I wished she had managed to wipe out the NightWings. I can see why not many like the book, but I just love the characters.

Getting a bit tired of writing reviews, but let me say this. This book is UNDERRATED as hell! I like how, under her exterior, Snowflake has a PERSONALITY. I also love Snowfox. Let's face it, Foxflake is meant to be. Homophobes, be warned.

Pxfferfish, a lesbian reviewer

20 Deserter

To be honest, hearing Six-Claws' story was really inspiring and relatable. It was well-flowing, too.

My favorite winglet, you get to know a whole lot more about Dune and Six-Claws!

I love this book! I think it's really underrated, and I feel really sorry for poor Dune and Six-Claws. I mean, Burn was horrible to them both after they'd been hardworking, loyal, and determined to keep fighting, AND SHE WAS HORRIBLE.

21 Prisoners

Prisoners was a good book! I think this should be in the top 5. But that's just my opinion! -Frost the IceWing/RainWing

22 Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World

This is so my favourite. All the tribes I used to not like are now some of my favourites. My personal favourite section was the SeaWings. We get to learn a bit about Aquatic and Coral's book/scroll collection. I also love Fin's letter to Turtle. It's really funny. Anyway, it should not be last on this list and is totally amazing!

Yay! It's finally here! The book is finally out in 2023! I love it. I've read most of it, and the song Cliff wrote about SkyWings was so funny and so cute. I also loved how it showed the maps for all the tribes, and it humorously stated the Sluggish Qualities of MudWings because MudWings stink! RainWings are by far the best!

I love each of the chapters and how they were personalized for each tribe. The one Anemone gave Tamarin was so sweet (even though it was rude to Kinkajou, and I love Kinkajou. Anemone is still a jerk). I love this book so much! - Jaguar the RainWing

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