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Wings of fire #5 The brightest night

That was a fantastic ending to the first five books in this series. When I first started reading these, I liked Sunny but I never really thought too much about her. After reading this, she is now top derg.

Since each of the dragonets in the Wings of Fire series had a book devoted to them, I knew this one would be Sunny's turn to shine. Although the other dragons often are a little bit dismissive and treat her as their pet, she really comes into her own in this book. As she tries to stop the war that seems destined to rage among all the different dragon types. (And like, they’re on the front cover) I actually liked everything about this book! But since the beginning to the end, I was quite hooked to it, and it was a different kind of hooking feeling. Sunny's chapters always ended with a kind of brief conclusion, which left you kind of yearning to know what happens next. Or maybe that's just me. I think that's what got me to finish it in a day. Also, you just had to read on after the prologue was introduced, from Queen Oasis's point of view, can you imagine? It dawns on something that had been talked about but not gone into detail over since the beginning, and it's what started the war at large, so naturally, those were some juicy details.

Another thing that stood out to me was that scavengers - humans - were reasonably important in this book, and I liked humans being described from Sunny's point of view, especially their speech, which Sunny described as: "Yibble, yibble!”
This last novel to the war arc wraps up everything nicely with a bucketload of plot twists and answering all the mysteries and ending the 20 year war in a satisfactory manner.

4.75/5

This one really surprised me by being the best WoF book so far.