Rating: Not for me

Reading Level: Mid-Late Elementary, Middle School

This book has a clear theme of overcoming racial bigotry. It is worth a conversation with your kid about overcoming stereotypes and racial superiority.

Other possible concerns:

  • Family dysfunction and favoritism. Mentally abusive, overbearing parents are chronically condescending to thier son. Eventually they pit him against their older (favorite) son in a fight to their death(Yowsa!). The family is entirely performance-based, and the main character often falls short of expectations.
  • Violence. Dragons eat/fight/kill/imprison each other, humans, and beasts.
  • Oppressive rulers. Wars, treason, tyranny, etc.
  • Romance. “Does she like me?” type thoughts and feeling guilting for loving a dragon from another tribe.
  • Darkness. Starting in Book 6, there was more occult with mind reading, listening to voices of dead spirits, and things got dark quite fast. I found it affected my mood.
  • Conservatives on the structure of the family may not like that later in the series some characters end up pursuing homosexual relationships. I noticed this mainly in Book 10.

If you let your kids read this one, be sure to have conversations about how the main character’s thoughts of racial superiority can often come from oppressive regimes. Remind them that God loves everyone, shows no favoritism, and we are all made in the precious image of God. Encourage them that we can learn from people of different ethnicities and cultures, as the main character is beginning to learn.

Be sure also to remind your reader that you love them no matter how they perform, and that you are proud of them, and that the parents in this book are not typical parents. It may even be worthwhile to discuss the dangers of a performance-based identity, or of a compeletly performace-based society, and to help them understand how being a child of God gives them deep worth that goes beyond good deeds or societal successes.

For me, the dangers of the negative parenting and the presence of the occult outweigh the potential good that could come from this one.

See also my reviews of the other Wings of Fire books:

Wings of Fire Book 1: The Dragonet ProphecySutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/wings-of-fire-book-1-the-dragonet-prophecy-by-tuition-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 2: The Lost HeirSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/wings-of-fire-book-2-the-lost-heur-by-tuition-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 3: The Hidden KingdomSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/wings-of-fire-book-3-the-hidden-kingdom-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 4: The Dark SecretSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/wings-of-fire-book-4-the-dark-secret-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 5: The Brightest NightSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/wings-of-fire-book-5-the-brightest-night-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 6: Moon RisingSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/wings-of-fire-book-6-moon-rising/
Wings of Fire Book 7: Winter TurningSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/wings-of-fire-book-7-winter-turning-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 8: Escaping PerilSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/02/08/wings-of-fire-book-8-escaping-peril-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 9: Talons of PowerSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/wings-of-fire-book-9-talons-of-power-by-tui-t-sutherland/
Wings of Fire Book 10: Darkness of DragonsSutherland, Tui T.https://jesuslovesthebookworms.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/wings-of-fire-book-10-darkness-of-dragons/

*You also may wish to check out the review of Book 1 on ChristianParentReviews.com: https://christianparentreviews.com/book-reviews/Wings-of-Fire-The-Dragonet-Prophecy