Book Review: Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle 

By Tui T. Sutherland 

5 Stars 

Wings of Fire: The Poison Jungle by Tui T. Sutherland is the 13th book in a currently 15-book series called the Wings of Fire series. The Wings of Fire series is about different dragons fighting a new evil every 5 books.  

The Poison Jungle is about an always furious LeafWing dragonet named Sundew who heads to a part of Pantala (the dragon continent) called the Poison Jungle with her friends to learn if there is an antidote for the mind-controlling plant that Queen Wasp (the HiveWing queen) is using to mind control the HiveWings (also a type of dragon). Sundew and her friends feel that there is hope to free the HiveWings from Queen Wasp's mind control powers, and they also hope that once free, many HiveWings will want to help the LeafWings and the SilkWings (another type of dragon) fight against Queen Wasp. However, as Sundew and her friends reach the LeafWing village, hidden deep in the jungle, they uncover secrets about the plant and the LeafWings that could change their lives forever.  

Something that I liked about this book was that it had a lot of betrayal and mystery, which starts when Sundew and her friends go to try to find the antidote. Even so, be that as it may, I didn't like the behaviour some LeafWings and SilkWings were showing to Cricket (one of Sundew's friends and also a HiveWing) just because she's a HiveWing (even though she helped Sundew a lot of times).   

I would recommend this book to children and young teens for its anticipation, its climax, and its fiction. Overall, I give this book 5 stars for its continuation of the mystery of Queen Wasp's mind control. 

Reviewed by Muhammad Haad  

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