I liked this Wings of Fire series very much and have gobbled up each title as it became available.
I think current fans of this series will like the graphic novel however, I will direct first time readers to the chapter book for a better introduction to the story. I'm more sensitive to visual imagery, and that may play a part in my reception of the book, but it will make me think a little harder about who I hand this book to. It's not graphic enough to be inappropriate for some of my older readers, but it distracted me from the story more than I think it would've if I had read the chapter book version. Additionally, while action stories like these have a bit of violence to be expected, it is disturbing to see it depicted in these images. I found it quite confusing and hard to tell characters apart. The illustration style was not the best match for the story it was clunky, particularly in the panel placement, and the color choices were odd. Without that deeper exposition, the characters and storyline fall flat. The story and characters are there, but this particular fantasy style lends itself to the deeper exposition that novel-length works have.
I haven't read the chapter books, but I can tell that they are probably much better than this graphic novel version. My rating is probably closer to 2 1/2 stars. I thoroughly enjoyed this graphic novel and recommend it for others! The storyline was super close to the novel! I haven't read the first WOF novel in a while so this helped me appreciate the main group of the first arc a lot. XDīut I love how close this graphic novel followed the plot of the novel. And they didn't add nearly all the gory scenes from the book (such as scavengers getting their heads bitten off, gross) and I was grateful for that. I'm happy to say I didn't mind the blood and gore too much, it wasn't very realistic. And there's a WAR going on so there's bound to be some blood. I mean, dragons aren't exactly animals of peace. I was a bit unsure of how the violence would be drawn. I spent time studying each picture (although sometimes an intense scene would cause me to backtrack and study the drawings better - I read too fast!). I mean, WOF is one of my favorite series and I love graphic novels so double yay!Īfter my library finally got a copy of this beauty, I gobbled it up so fast! It's amazing how emotion can be put on the dragon's faces! I loved how unique the drawing style was and how rich the colors were. When I heard that there was going to be a Wings of Fire graphic novel, I counted down the days until it would come out. My first novel for teenagers was THIS MUST BE LOVE, which retells Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a modern-day high school, from the POV of the two heroines, Hermia and Helena.Īnd now I'm writing in a new project called SEEKERS! It's a children's book series that I'm writing with Erin Hunter. MEET MO AND ELLA is tough to find now, but FUN WITH MO AND ELLA should still be out there somewhere. My first two official books were beginning readers, part of Grosset & Dunlap’s “First Friends” series for kids learning to read. Much to my parents’ relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing. I graduated from Williams College in ’98 and I currently live in Boston with my husband, my perfect new baby, and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what’s a yoodle? A puppy that’s three-quarters poodle and one-quarter Yorkshire terrier, of course!). because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) I was born July 31 (same birthday as Harry Potter!) in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay Miami, Florida and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre-mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys. Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui-not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier! Tui? What kind of name is that? Is it short for something?
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