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Wings of Fire 7: Winter turning AKA, The KKK initiate who last book only drank coffee creamer and had aneurysms about N*GHTW*NGS gets told by the universes racism is bad with all the subtlety of an avalanche for like a week up to and including magical artifacts.


What I thought of Winter Turning: Winter is probably my least favourite "good" character in the whole Wings of Fire saga by far. If he were human, he would probably be the most racist guy ever in that typical strawman sort of way which exists to be disproven in-story. Winter was a far more enjoyable character when you weren't stuck in his head. I would have preferred a story from Kinkajou's perspective (namely because I never know what she's thinking or will say next, so she's an exciting addition going forwards since she's out just in time for darkstalker's imminent return.

Winter spent the entire book brooding like a by the letter YA Romeo boy kicking himself for having feelings for Moon the nightwing girl and arguing with himself why the insane rules in place in his society that he obviously hates are what he must follow over the friends who have proven their loyalty and devotion to him time and time again. I genuinely do not think Winter grew enough to warrant his own perspective book, and the only truly good things that came out of this book were us getting to see the IceWing kingdom in detail and some other spoilery stuff that happened when one of the Darkstalker Era characters coming into play.

I still rate this book 4 stars because Winter as irritable as he may be, was still carried by everything going on around him in the story. and he did have a bit of growth, but it was so sudden at the end with such an obvious choice. That's right winter, putting dragon Hitler's mom into an i have no mouth and I must scream eternal torture chamber that doubles and a death arena is not a good thing, congratulations on your whole book of growth to figure that out. I'm not even entirely convinced you don't still hate Nightwings. I think Pyrite should have stayed around. She would have made for a better pov than winter for a lot of the story after he put on the necklace.

4/5