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Darkwing

by Kenneth Oppel
by Keith Thompson

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Studio:

Eos

Binding:

Hardcover

Reading Level:

Ages 9-12

Number Of Pages:

432

Publication Date:

September 01, 2007

Publisher:

Eos

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Product Description

As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . .

Dusk

He alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned—or worse. As the leader's son, he is protected, but does his future lie among his kin?

Carnassial

He has the true instincts of a predator, and he is determined that his kind will not only survive but will dominate the world of beasts.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Silverwing trilogy comes an extraordinary adventure set 65 million years ago. Kenneth Oppel, winner of a Michael L. Printz Honor for Airborn, has crafted a breathtaking animal tale that reaches out to the human in all of us.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 6 reviews)

Love it.

I completely adore this book. It's the best yet in the silverwing "quadrilogy"

I was browsing amazon one day when I decided to search my favorite author's to only be surprised that a third book of my favorite novel trilogy has been out for nearly a year without me knowing. Thanks to amazon I guess.

As always, I received the book quick and in great condition!
June 18, 2008

Darkwing

Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel is a prehistoric fiction book. It is about a colony of chiropters and the extinction of the feared saurians. Dusk a chiropter who has the ability to fly unlike the other bat like creatures who can only glide.
February 22, 2008

!A Review of the Book Darkwing!

" They've accepted me." These are the words of a young dinosaur like bat. Who shows he hates being different but does not want to be anyother way. This young bat is Dusk and after reading this whole book it just goes to show you that being a Chiropters is not at easy as you would think but then again their life can be a little like ours.

All he ever wants is to be accepted by his kin named the Chiropters. Unlike most Chiropters Dusk has special skills that one day saves the lifes of many. However being different can be a bad thing when your a Chiropters that have been different in the past are ignored, shunned, killed, even sometimes left by their own family to die. Dusk is just lucky he is the leaders son or whos knows what would happen. Although Dusk has a huge family the main characters from his family you will hear about are his mom and dad, his sister Sylph, and his older brother Auster.

I felt this was a book many people can enjoy. One of the reasons for this is well it fits with a lot of different themes. For example there is killing making it horror. Then theres the always left out Dusk making it sad. Then as a last example there are twistand turns around every corner. The passage I like the best is the one stated before "They've accepted me." this just shows that after all the hard work and punishment he had to go through he was still able to reach his goal.
January 10, 2008

Wonderfully Imaginative

For those of you that don't know, Kenneth Oppel writes childrens books, including a popular collection about bats including Silverwing. Darkwing is meant to serve as both a standalone book and a prequel to Silverwing, and takes place 65 million years ago as the dinosaurs died out and all sorts of evolutionary wonders were happening, not the least of which was the evolution of the bat from a (relatively made up) similar creature called a chiropter that stars in this book.

The story is relatively simple...Dusk is a chiropter that has odd qualities that make him different from the rest of his clan. Despite that, his father, as leader, keeps Dusk safe and accepted within their community. One night though, the chiropters clan is attacked and they must seek a new home. Many perils face the giant chiropter tribe as they search high and low throughout their homelands for a new place to live, facing the challenges of new predators, unfamiliar territories, and the fact their isolation on their island home has sheltered them from the realities of the evolutionary world...plus Dusk still doesn't fit in with his group, even though his oddness benefits his clan time and time again.

At first I found the book a bit slow...and quite confusing, especially when trying to figure out what a Chiropter is (an explanation occurs at the end of the book, not the beginning). Well the best way to describe it is the predecessor to a bat...they can only glide, not fly for example. Many of the other creatures the bat colony comes across are similarly confusingly named with all sorts of bizarre titles. However, about a third of the way through I actually got quite into the story. Even though it's a kids book and some things were quite predictable, much of the book was quite UNpredictable. It almost played out like a very dramatic, at times gory, at times laughable (there are two scenes where plants are used in a hallucinogenic sense...?) version of a Pixar film about fitting in and finding your way home.

Overall I really enjoyed myself reading this book. It wasn't challenging once you got past the first part, and just provided a nice easy read! I'm sure lots of kids will be lapping this up, and rightfully so.
December 27, 2007

Best Book Ever

This book, in my opinion, was the best I have ever read. I finished it quite promptly, in a day or so, using up at least 4 days reading time in one day. When I finished it, I wanted the story to keep going so I have made several self-made unofficial sequels to the book.
December 27, 2007

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