After waiting for it over three years, Caramel was able to read and review book sixteen of Tui Sutherland’s Wings of Fire series last week. This made him realize that he had not yet reviewed the graphic novel adaptation of book nine, Talons of Power, which had come out in December 2025. He now talks to Sprinkles about this book below.
Sprinkles: Today we are talking about the graphic novel version of Book Nine of the Wings of Fire series. Right, Caramel?
Caramel: Yes, technically we could have talked about this before the sixteenth book, but we forgot to review, but I’m happy I got my paws on this book.
S: Yes, this came out at the end of 2025, and you read it all the way back then, but then we had a couple other books you were planning to review, and then we took January off, and then we basically forgot.
C: Yeah, we should have reviewed it earlier, but at least we remembered.
S: You had read and reviewed the original version of the ninth book before. And you loved that book.
C: Yeah, and I love this one too, it’s awesome.
S: So if I recall correctly this one has Turtle as the main character.
C: Yeah, Turtle is a self-proclaimed coward, but he’s also among the strongest characters in Wings of Fire, because he’s an animus, just like his sister, Anemone. That means he has magic.
S: Ooh, cool! I think you had mentioned that in your review of the original book. You also had used “treacherous”, “revelation”, and “reluctant hero” to describe the book and its themes.
C: Yeah, so he sort of has to save the day from Darkstalker, but he’s a scaredy cat so he sort of doesn’t want to.
S: So there is a lot of his internal struggle in the original book, I think. How does all that internal struggle work out in the graphic novel format?
C: Well. It works out well.
S: So you enjoyed reading this book, then.
C: Yeah, it was very fun to read, and like the other graphic novels, the art was very cool and colorful.
S: It is after all the same art team, led by Mike Holmes who drew them and Maarta Laiho who worked on the colors. I am glad you liked the art.
C: Well, that explains why it was so good.
S: Yes. And looking through the book I am quite impressed by how the faces of the dragons are so expressive, I mean dragons are lizard-like creatures, it is hard to create expressions for them without making them look too human- or bunny-like. The artist does a great job with that.
C: Yeah, the art is very expressive.
S: Did reading this graphic novel make you want to go back to the original book and read that one again?
C: Yeah, so I did, though I probably would have done that anyways.
S: That’s true. I know how you like to go back and reread your favorites over and over again. That is something I never do with my books, but I know both you and Marshmallow love doing it.
C: Yeah, you’re weird for not rereading. I know Midnight also likes to reread.
S: Yeah, I mean I can see the appeal of reading a good book, you know it is good, and sometimes it is like you are reconnecting with old friends, and sometimes you probably catch things you might have missed in your first reading, and so on. Do you think you like rereading because of any of these reasons?
C: No, I just like rereading my favorite books.
S: And I like discovering new books, and there are so many books out there! I know I won’t be able to read all the books I want to read in one lifetime, so I often do not want to reread. I guess we are kind of different that way.
C: True, I guess we like different things about books, but let’s get back to this book.
S: Good idea Caramel. Thanks for redirecting us and getting us to focus. So what do you wish to add about the book?
C: It contains all the important things from the original book. You always want to know if the graphic novel version of a book is missing anything. So no, the graphic novel version has pretty much everything one needs to move to the next book.
S: That is neat. And good to know. So this might be a good time to wrap up this review.
C: Sure. Sounds good.
S: What would you like to tell our readers?
C: Stay tuned for more book bunny reviews!
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