Caramel was delighted to finally get his paws on the sixteenth book of Tui Sutherland’s Wings of Fire series: The Hybrid Prince was published on March 3, 2026. Below you will find him discussing this long-awaited novel with Sprinkles who is taking notes and asking questions.
In case you are wondering, Caramel has read and reviewed almost every book in this series. Here are his reviews of the books of the original series: The Dragonet Prophecy (book 1), Moon Rising (book 6), Winter Turning (book 7), Escaping Peril (book 8), Talons of Power (book 9), Darkness of Dragons (book 10), The Lost Continent (book 11), The Hive Queen (book 12), The Poison Jungle (book 13), The Dangerous Gift (book 14), and The Flames of Hope (book 15).
He also reviewed the graphic novelizations of the first eight books: The Dragonet Prophecy (book 1), The Lost Heir (book 2), The Hidden Kingdom (book 3), The Dark Secret (book 4), The Brightest Night (book 5), Moon Rising (book 6), Winter Turning (book 7), and Escaping Peril (book 8).
He has also read and reviewed the two books in the Legends series (Darkstalker –also see its graphic novelization, and Dragonslayer) as well as the first book in the Winglets series (The Winglets Quartet: The First Four Stories).
Besides all these, he has also reviewed Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World.
Sprinkles: So Caramel, you are finally ready to talk about the sixteenth book of the Wings of Fire today, right?
Caramel: Yes, yes we are! We finally got a new one.
S: I know you were so looking forward to this book. Was it worth the wait?
C: I mean I’d prefer to not have had to wait, but yes, it’s a great thing.
S: Okay, so is the story good? Tell us a bit about it. Do we know any of the main characters in it?
C: Yes, Umber and Sora. Umber is the main character, and is the brother of Clay from the first trilogy. Sora is their sister. Remember we first met Clay in the Dragonet Prophecy?
S: Yes, I do remember Clay.
C: And we have seen both Umber and Sora before. They are mentioned in many of the earlier books.
S: Hmm, that is neat. Alright, so then are we continuing any of the previous story lines?
C: Not quite. This starts a new narrative arc. Umber and Sora are now refugees from Pyrrhia, as Sora is an attempted murderer.
S: Wait, so she tries to kill someone?
C: Yep, In Moon Rising, she tries to kill Icicle who was Winter’s older sister, because Sora believes that Icicle was the one who killed her sister. So she blows some stuff up, tries to impale Icicle, yada yada, and Sora and Umber have to run away. This book is where we learn about what has happened to them.
S: I see. So tying some loose ends, kind of, but also starting something new?
C: Yeah, I do think there will be more books to follow. This one is a bit strange. They both find partners, and then they find dragon eggs, and they raise the dragonets.
S: But you said they left Pyrrhia? Where are they?
C: In the middle of the ocean, in Dungeon Isle, which is kind of like a penal colony. There are dragons from all tribes there, and many hybrid ones as a result. There are some called the WildWings that are so mixed that you cannot tell the different tribe origins they might have.
S: Okay, so the book is called The Hybrid Prince. But Umber is not hybrid, he is a MudWing, so who is the Hybrid Prince?
C: The hybrid prince is his new love interest.
S: Ooh, that is interesting. You did say they find partners. I see. Okay, then is the book more about partnering up and family troubles and so on? Any other adventures?
C: Yeah, Umber and Sora get trapped in this magical prison, then Umber finds this hybrid guy, and he develops a crush on him, and they are now sort of entangled in a mess involving betrayal, murder, more murder, and more attempted murder.
S: Okay, that sounds … lively?
C: Or deadly, we could say.
S: Oh, I see what you did there! That’s funny.
C: Well, yes, I am funny, but the story is not completely funny. Some people get un-alived, some are captured and exiled, though they’re all trapped in this prison island, so the exile is within the prison island. So it is complicated.
S: I see. It sounds like maybe this book had a slightly different feel than the other fifteen? Or maybe not?
C: It did feel a little different, but it’s still just as awesome. I have already read it a few times.
S: That is cool! I know you were so excited to get your paws on this book after waiting for it for such a long time. For a while we did not even know if there would be a sixteenth book. Now that this is out, you can expect to get at least one more, probably.
C: Yeah, I hope there’s way more than just one though.
S: I guess we will see. Okay, this might be a good place to wrap up this review.
C: Sure. Let’s do that so I can go back to rereading my book.
S: Okay. What do you want to tell our readers?
C: Stay tuned for more book bunny reviews!
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