Pentapod reviewed Firewing by Kenneth Oppel (Silverwing, #3)
Review of 'Firewing' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
Yeah, this was a disappointing conclusion to the Silverwing YA trilogy. The main character is now Griffin, son of Shade and Marina, and after a fairly disastrous experiment in stealing fire from some human campers, Griffin is caught in an earthquake and sucked down into the underworld where he finds himself in, essentially, bat hell. Or at least bat limbo. The weird supernatural elements of the previous two books were the bits I liked least and that seemed most jarringly out of place in a set of stories that could otherwise have simply been the bats coexisting in the same world as humans, and so having this entire book set in some weird supernatural afterlife full of dead bats and a demon god just made no sense at all any way I looked at it. Even if you're totally into the cool demon god stuff, the ending of the book …
Yeah, this was a disappointing conclusion to the Silverwing YA trilogy. The main character is now Griffin, son of Shade and Marina, and after a fairly disastrous experiment in stealing fire from some human campers, Griffin is caught in an earthquake and sucked down into the underworld where he finds himself in, essentially, bat hell. Or at least bat limbo. The weird supernatural elements of the previous two books were the bits I liked least and that seemed most jarringly out of place in a set of stories that could otherwise have simply been the bats coexisting in the same world as humans, and so having this entire book set in some weird supernatural afterlife full of dead bats and a demon god just made no sense at all any way I looked at it. Even if you're totally into the cool demon god stuff, the ending of the book is still disappointing and quite a downer and I'd honestly just recommend stopping after book 2.
