Having just finished the Wings of Fire dragonet prophecy quintet, I then decided to read Wings of Fire: Legends: Dragonslayer (young adult fantasy, 484 pages) by Tui T. Sutherland.

“Ivy doesn’t trust the Dragonslayer. He may be her father and the beloved ruler of Valor, but she knows he’s hiding more than the treasure from the sand dragon he killed two decades ago. Leaf doesn’t trust dragons. They’re the reason his favorite sister, Wren, is dead, and now he’ll do whatever it takes to slay even one. Wren doesn’t trust anyone. She swore off humans after her village tried to sacrifice her to the dragons. She only has one friend, a small, wonderful mountain dragon named Sky, and they don’t need anyone else. In a world of dragons, the humans who scramble around underfoot are easy to overlook. But Ivy, Leaf, and Wren will each cross paths with dragons in ways that could shape the destiny of both species. Perhaps a new future is possible for all of them … one in which humans can look to the skies with hope instead of fear.”

I think I made the right choice by reading this immediately after Wings of Fire: the Brightest Night because the events especially of the last book coincide nicely with the events in Dragonslayer. It’s very, very interesting to see this story from the perspective of the scavengers (humans) and to know that the dragons they keep interacting positively with are, in fact, our five dragonets of prophecy. It’s even more interesting to know the dragonet prophecy about having the five dragons be one from the MudWings, one from the SeaWings, one from the NightWings, one from the SandWings, and one from the SkyWings, but that the Talons of Peace used a RainWing instead of a SkyWing, but the SkyWing was still part of the prophecy! It’s just that no one knew that.

Sky and Wren both remain hidden for most of their lives and it’s not until after the events of The Brightest Night we even learn the SkyWing egg, stolen and dropped into the forest, actually survived the fall and hatched into an adorable baby dragon, taken care of by a young scavenger who was sacrificed by manipulative con-artists to prevent her from being trouble for them.

But their very existence, and their friendship, creates rifts neither of them, let alone other dragons, know anything about. And the same is true for the dragonets of prophecy. Clay saves Leaf way back in The Dragonet Prophecy and then Leaf is able to get the treasure to return to Sunny in The Brightest Night, which then gives Sunny the idea to follow Rose’s lead during the SandWing queen battle and dig up the Eye of Onyx, which stops the war.

I spent a lot of this book hoping the dragonet quintet someday gets a chance to sit down with Wren, Sky, and Rose and all of them share their stories. I would be highly amused to also bring Deathbringer / Murder Basket into the conversation, as I think that would be hilarious.

Overall, this is one of my favorite of the Wings of Fire books and it’s an easy four on my rating scale. I’m happy I own it and will continue to keep rereading it in the future 🙂

Sutherland, Tui T. Wings of Fire: Legends: Dragonslayer. Scholastic Press, 2020.