Queen Snowfall inherits an IceWing throne in an unsettled season and decides that tighter control is the safest answer.
The fourteenth Wings of Fire novel puts a reluctant young queen in charge and then makes her govern, with unexpected visitors, prophecy and her own instincts all pulling in different directions. Tui T. Sutherland writes leadership as a series of ordinary hard calls rather than grand speeches, which gives the volume a different texture from the battle-driven books.
Reasons readers return to it:
• Fourteenth instalment, continuing the Lost Continent storyline
• A queen's point of view rather than a young adventurer's
• Empathy, fear and the cost of shutting others out drive the conflict
• English edition carrying ISBN 9789390590537
Suitable for readers aged nine and above and for classrooms using the series for discussion, available through Boipoka.