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Who will find Griffin first? And who will survive to embark on the perilous journey back to the land of the living?

 

The earth heaves and splits in a terrible quake and...

... Griffin, a Silverwing newborn, is sucked into a fissure deep below the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realises that his son has been drawn into the Underworld, and embarks on the most dangerous of journeys to rescue him. Shade knows he must find Griffin quickly, but something else is hunting Griffin -- a deadly foe Shade hoped he would never see again.

Who will find Griffin first? And who will survive to embark on the perilous journey back to the land of the living?

 
 
 


Reviews

Reviews

"Firewing is a first rate sequel to Kenneth Oppel's earlier award-winning novels, Silverwing and Sunwing. With a spring-tight plot, it propels the reader through exciting, chilling, and deliciously satisfying adventure. Oppel has created a new cast of bats, Griffin and Luna, to join the old favourites, Shade Silverwing and Marina Brightwing, and has developed Griffin as a character markedly different from Griffin's father, Shade. Oppel has also created a unique Underworld, drawn in part from classical mythology, but disctinctly his own. What makes the Underworld especially interesting is that instead of just one version of the bat-afterlife, Oppel portrays several different versions of the notion of life-after-death.... Firewing is sure to delight fans of the previous books."

– Jeffrey Canton, Quill & Quire

If you know a kid, even as young as Grade 3 or 4, buy this book. The first two in the series, Silverwing and Sunwing, sold 600,000 copies, and it's easy to see why in this bravura thriller about a newborn bat who winds up in the underworld, where he discovers secrets of life and death, a father, and something even greater: the hero inside himself. Kenneth Oppel (who opened for J.K. Rowling at the Toronto SkyDome) is in a class of his own."

– John Burns, Georgia Strait Magazine

Oppel... certainly doesn't pander to young readers with his themes, which are dark and disturbing. Firewing is set almost entirely in an unpleasnt "underworld," as he calls it, that could be out of Homer.... Readers will be kept in suspense until the last few pages, of course, but ultimately, through means both surprising and satisfying, Oppel brings each character to a fitting end."

– Duncan Thornton, Winnipeg Free Press

"Oppel constructs a wonderfully florid and richly imagined world, a bat world in which life and death, heaven and hell, and the notion of giving up one's own life so that another might live, are there for the reading -- and the feeling. Hats off to Oppel for a hat trick!"

– Susan Perren, The Globe and Mail

"Firewing is a fantastic read, whether you're eight or 80. I couldn't put it down. Brilliantly, Oppel has created an entirely believable fantasy world inhabited by bats and other creatures that, except for their furiness, exhibit all the behaviours of human beings and mythological gods.... The beauty of this book lies in the universality of the ideas: If you're human, you'll get it, and I can guarantee you'll love it."

– Julie Burtinshaw, Vancouver Sun

"a fantastic read, whether you're eight or 80"

– Vancouver Sun

"exciting, chilling, and deliciously satisfying adventure"

– Quill & Quire

"Firewing is a fantastic read, whether you're eight or 80. I couldn't put it down. Brilliantly, Oppel has created an entirely believable fantasy world inhabited by bats and other creatures that, except for their furiness, exhibit all the behaviours of human beings and mythological gods.... The beauty of this book lies in the universality of the ideas: If you're human, you'll get it, and I can guarantee you'll love it."

– Julie Burtinshaw, Vancouver Sun