The Hidden Kingdom (Wings of Fire #3)

Loved reading this, great for 13+ viewers as there is detailed gore. The descriptions of the scenery is fantastic and the story sparks my imagination.

It was a good book in general and I bought the next book!

Everything about it was good, and I love how it doesn't swear and it is a good book for just about all age groups.

I started reading this because it's my granddaughter's favorite. She's 9 and the series is written for that age group. I am 69 and I'm really enjoying it. I just wish it was on Kindle Unlimited!

My son loves this series, they are well written books

I sometimes think Wings of Fire is too violent, but something about it being dragons makes it more accessible for kids and prevents nightmares somehow. Good themes in this one.

I never expected to be reading these books, but here we are, and they’ve captivated my attention for the past week. The cover alone looks like a piece of art, and the story itself is very fun to follow along.

Bought for my grandson and he loves these books can read them in a little over a day

These are books our Granddaughter loves reading

These are a favorite in our house. My daughter read them first, and her younger brother soon followed. He’s working his way through the series after first reading the graphic novels. I loved that I could find a used copy at a great price because this was a replacement copy for one he lost from a boxed set.

This was a pleasure to read along with my son, one to two chapters each evening. I found myself having to hold back from continuing the chapters alone, the story’s progression was extremely captivating. We can’t wait to start book 4 tomorrow night!

My Granddaughter loves to read this series and it's very interesting and detailed would buy agian!!

So far, this is my favorite book in the series. It really gets deeper into the story of Glory and the Rainwings. Some themes in this book deal with taking action to make a positive difference and dispelling stereotypes. I highly recommend this book in the entire series.

My granddaughter wanted this book because the one she had was in bad shape and she is very picky about the condition of her books so I ordered her a new one. This one had some damage to the spine and the pages were wavy. It also took a long time to receive it. She was disappointed in the condition but she said it would do since it was better then the one she had.

I actually bought this on accident. My 5 yo son and I had read the graphic novels together of the first two books which he LOVED and I ordered this thinking it was the third graphic novel. I was disappointed to realize when it arrived that I had made a mistake and it was the actual novel. I asked him if he wanted to give it a shot anyway and he said yes so we started reading and were immediately hooked. We got through the whole book quickly and both loved reading what was by far the longest book we’ve ever read together. The graphic novels are fun too but this novel provided a whole different reading experience and is a great story. And drawback is there is a bit too much violence for my 5 yo.

I was worried our daughter might never find that same love of reading her father and I have. She had not found a book that resonated and by the beginning of 3rd grade she was barely reading at grade level. Low and behold a friend in her class was obsessed with this book and had all of the girls in the class playing imaginary games based on it. Our daughter begged us to get the first one because she wanted to read it, when it arrived I worried it would be too difficult. Nope- she is now on book 4 and zooming through them. She even stayed up late over the summer unable to put it down. Now she is starting 4th grade reading 2 levels above grade level.Proves the importance of finding a book/series that captures their interests.

One of our younger readers LOVES this series. This is the third part of the story and the dragonets take to the rain forest to continue their adventure and see if they are indeed the dragonets from the prophecy. If your kiddos enjoy the Warriors series or any sort of fantasy reading, they will love Sutherland's Wings of Fire series. These are probably better suited for the later elementary years as the dragons do commit murder and the humans in the story are mere pillagers that are seen as simple snacks by some dragons. Nothing is too graphic or too violent, but those more sinister elements are involved in the story and could be too scary for a first or second grader.

My Thoughts: Yay! I finally get to review one of the Wings of Fire books, because most of the time my brother, Oscar, insists on reviewing them.Anyways, I just love these books. The characters are hilarious, the writing fun and easy, the mystery incredible, and everything else about it amazing. I loved hearing about the NightWings and how Sutherland eases the reader slowly into the dragon's world of war and shows us a little more of the mystery with each book. (Mystery being with the NightWings, RainWings, Blister, the prophecy, and the replacement dragonets...). Glory's POV was one I have waited for for a LONG time (OK, I've a waited for all of them, but who wouldn't want to hear about Starflight, or Sunny, or Tsunami, or.... ALL OF THEM) and it didn't disappoint. Her character was spot-on, and we finally got to learn a little bit more about her feelings towards being a RainWing. Blaze was hilarious - exactly the opposite of her sisters, kind of like a mix between Sunny and Queen Red Riding Hood from the Land of Stories - and Queen Glacier left me curious and intrigued about her character. (As a side note, I'm still confused about why there isn't an IceWing dragonet. It doesn't mention it in the prophecy - maybe the author added it in to show how flawed the prophecy really is? I don't know. Has anyone else realized this?) The end of the book, with SPOILER, Glory trying to become queen, was awesome, too.Pretty much every about this book, this series, was amazing, fun, rolling on the floor with laughter, PERFECT. :)

Our daughters love these books, including this one. They say the writing flows very well, easy to read, great adventures and they breezed right through the series. They can't put these books down! Highly recommended. (Our daughters started reading these when they were eight; one is now nine and the other ten. They have read all of the series including the Warriors series, Wings of Fire series, Seekers series, and Survivors series). They did not like the Survivors series at all. Our daughters did not like the Survivors series because they felt that all the characters were too similar to each-other and the plot appeared to be unorganized and missed it's meaning completely, (vague, confusing plot). In addition, my daughters state that the characters in Survivors appeared to be whinny and undesirable (difficult to connect with).

I've been looking for a book about dragons. Not dragon riders, dragon slayers, or a girl who get's sent to a dragon's lair by her Aunt. I wanted a book about dragons. However, when I found this series, I didn't expect it to be any good. I was proved wrong.This book is in the point of view of Glory the RainWing. In a world where the dragon tribes are at war, a prophecy has been delivered. Five dragonets will come and stop the war. A SeaWing, a SandWing, a MudWing, a NightWing, and a SkyWing. They were to hatch on the brightest night, and, in their eighth year, stop the war.Glory sometimes feels like the odd one out. After all, it wasn't supposed to be a RainWing in the prophecy, it was supposed to be a SkyWing. And, to top it off, RainWings are consitered lazy and useless by the rest of the tribes. The other tribes think that RainWings are like the decoration of Pyrrhia. They don't really do anything but sit around, sleep, eat fruit, and look pretty.Glory feels differently. She knows that their color changing scales can make them invisible. She knows that RainWings have a black poison in their fangs, able to melt scales and kill any dragon it comes into contact with.Her hopes are dashed when she sees that RainWings really are lazy, don't use their poison, and pretty much only use the scales to try and show off. In fact, RainWings are too lazy to count their eggs. No one even knew Glory was missing.However, she begins to get angry when she is told that RainWings have been vanishing for the past year, and no one has done anything about it, except one single dragon. The one who told her. So, of course, Glory has to do something about it.This book is even better than The Lost Heir. We get a different view of Glory other than the grumpy, moody dragonet we saw in the other books, and we also see she has a good reason why she's like that. We also have a couple of interesting new characters; Mangrove, the mate of one of the missing RainWings, Jambu, Glory's enthusiastic big brother (who happens to almost always be a shade of bright raspberry pink), and Kinkaju, one of the missing dragons, who befriends Glory.I didn't have any problems with this book, and it's also less bloody than the last two. No fights to the death in an arena, no dragon getting their teeth ripped out, no dragon getting stabbed with a SandWing tail. Good, solid read.