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| View Larger Image | Firewing (Aladdin Fantasy)
by Kenneth Oppel
| | List Price: | $5.99 |  | | Available: | In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. | | | | | Sales Rank: | 605371 | | Studio: | Aladdin | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 300 | | Publication Date: | May 04, 2004 | | Publisher: | Aladdin |
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The forest heaves and splits in a terrible quake, and Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure deep into the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realizes 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 -- legend dictates that if the living stumble into the land of the dead, they have only a short time before death claims them, too. 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?In this riveting companion to the acclaimed novels Silverwing and Sunwing, Kenneth Oppel creates a story that will resonate with readers of all ages -- a glorious fantasy adventure in which the living and the dead struggle for the sake of eternity. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 42 reviews)
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Firewing 
BOY.that was one of the greatest books... until the end! Gosh! First griffin(shades son) is trying to find the tree of life to get back to his normal world,but theres this problem.!!!SPOILER WARNING!!!at the very end, griffin gets bitten by his fathers dead worst enemy and dies, then shade commits suicide!!!??? You heard me right, dead,but since its the underworld hes aliuve but still has a body to uh live in.Right?? I hate thAt part but its not the worst!then griffin and the bat he killed at the very beginning (luna) get his life force, and go back to theyre world,while dead shade,making a stupendously unsatisfying ending flys through the portal and gets back in the world as a sort of nothing that can feel what its like to be anything,but can NEVER COMMUNICATE to anyone(not even other spirits). sounds more like eternal torment than eternal paradise.At the end you can just "assume" that griffin married the bat who he killed!and luna married the bat that she strangled half the life out of(literally)because he killed her.I dont realy understand the happy ending in that.
September 28, 2006 | |
Horrible ending. 
I liked Silverwing & Sunwing, but this is just bad compared to them! This should have had Shade as the main character, and should not have had him die in the end!
June 09, 2006 | |
A Terrifically Planned Book 
Kenneth Oppel's book is superbly planned out, and that can be seen by the way he piles every event like bricks on a wall.
It is a great read as well, and as soon as you start you can't put it down until the end. If you haven't read the first two books, though, this could be quite the challenge for you to understand.
May 05, 2006 | |
A review coming from a Silverwing fanatic!
Alot of people don't like Firewing because it wasn't as good as the other two. It wasn't, but Sunwing was only a little bit better. Firewing was a very good book, and one of the few books I cry and the end. The ending was very sad, and I highly recommend this to anyone who has read the other two books!
May 01, 2006 | |
So sad!!
This was a terrible book!! The first two in the series were amazing, two of the best books I've ever read, but the ending for this one is all wrong! Everything gets messed up because of that stupid idiot Griffin! I cried so hard at the ending. Kenneth Oppel should not make little girls cry. People everywhere, if you love Shade, DO NOT read this book! Just read Silverwing and Sunwing and then stop there. I really wish I hadn't found out that there was a third one. Although I'm still going to buy the boxed set of all three. :)
May 01, 2006 | |
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