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In the Silverwing Sagas of the Bat Series by Kenneth Oppel, the stories revolve around the life of Shade Silverwing, a Silverwing colony bat who was always considered a ‘runt’ because of his incredibly miniscule build.  Shade is the protagonist of the first two books, Silverwing and Sunwing. There are three books in the Silverwing Saga, Silverwing, Sunwing, and Firewing. The Prehistoric Saga has only one book so far; Darkwing, the story takes place 65 million years before the events of the first book, Silverwing. In Darkwing, we read the story of prototype bats called Chiropters and different beasts in the war of the birds and the beasts. Dusk is a chiropter.

I really enjoyed this book because it tells the story about many creative and imaginative things. I think Oppel did a phenomenal job on including many ficitonal beasts, like the saurians (a type of prototypical pterodactyl), soricids (some prototypical mole specie) and the felids (a proto-canine).

I look forward to the next adventure of Dusk and Sylph!

I wonder what happened to the war of the Birds and Beasts? I think the birds won, because in the Silverwing Saga (65 million years after the Darkwing story) books ‘Silverwing’ and ‘Sunwing’, the owls; which are birds, are superior to the beasts, such as the bats.

I also wonder:

Did the diatryma die? My reason for asking this is because the Darkwing story told that the diatryma was the last of it’s specie, and that it needed food and that it’s leg was infected.

I hope Oppel writes more.

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