![]() ![]() “Wings Of Fire(The Graphic Novel): The Brightest Night” is the best way to end the first part of the Wings Of Fire series. How am I supposed to be convinced of the world's plausibility when the moon isn't a crescent, it's a sphere with a bite taken out it? Every time I see a botched moon, it's a blow to my suspension of disbelief. This might seem like a minor point, but it isn't hard to get right, and the moons are moderately important to the story. There's artistic license, and then there's just not having a clue how to draw a moon. I think you know whether that rule is broken too. And lastly, moons in the same part of the sky should be in a similar phase because they'd be lit the same way by the sun. You shouldn't be able to see stars in the gap! To my great aggravation, Mike Holmes draws them there anyways. Also, when the moon isn't full, the "empty" part isn't gone, it's just dark. For starters, in a crescent or gibbous moon, the points should always be opposite each other on a circle. They're wrong in just about every way I can think of. This one is a pet peeve of mine: Mike Holmes completely messes up drawing moons. Would a dragon city even have a gate? And along the same lines of thinking: Why do Sunny and Smolder walk up the weirdling tower? In the original book, I assumed the tower had multiple floors, so you had to use the stairs, but here there's a clear path to fly right up and avoid the hazardous prisoner half way up. Some other things I only noticed because it was a graphic novel: How do the Outclaws enforce the whole "you need to pay to get into the Scorpion Den" thing? Can't dragons just fly in? They don't need to use the gate. It was made of many intersecting ellipsoids which looked too heavy for their narrow connections to each other. Burn's stronghold was imaginatively drawn, but looked completely implausible. They aren't bad, but they're nothing special. They're both some of my favorite characters and I was excited to see their designs. I was a little disappointed by Thorn's design, and a little more disappointed by Qibli's. It's still the same story as book five, and I like book five. The weirdling tower in particular felt much creepier in visual format than in the book. Burn's weirdling tower and Blister's death scene were well drawn. All of the dragonets' designs, but especially Sunny's, are so expressive! This would be my favorite WoF graphic novel if for no reason other than it has beautiful drawings of Sunny on almost every page. Her design fits her much better than Joy Ang's cover art. Sunny is my favorite character in the graphic novels. ![]() My first novel for teenagers was THIS MUST BE LOVE, which retells Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a modern-day high school, from the POV of the two heroines, Hermia and Helena.Īnd now I'm writing in a new project called SEEKERS! It's a children's book series that I'm writing with Erin Hunter. MEET MO AND ELLA is tough to find now, but FUN WITH MO AND ELLA should still be out there somewhere. My first two official books were beginning readers, part of Grosset & Dunlap’s “First Friends” series for kids learning to read. ![]() Much to my parents’ relief, I abandoned my theatrical aspirations after college for the far more stable and lucrative career of fiction writing. I graduated from Williams College in ’98 and I currently live in Boston with my husband, my perfect new baby, and my adorable yoodle Sunshine (what’s a yoodle? A puppy that’s three-quarters poodle and one-quarter Yorkshire terrier, of course!). because it was artistically fulfilling, yes.) I was born July 31 (same birthday as Harry Potter!) in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived in Asuncion, Paraguay Miami, Florida and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before moving to New Jersey in high school, where I started doing theatre-mostly backstage work, because (a) it was fun, and (b) you got to hang out in the dark with cute boys. Among the many great things to come out of New Zealand (the Lord of the Rings movies, cats that paint, my mom) is a bird called the tui-not as well known as the kiwi, but a heck of a lot noisier! Tui? What kind of name is that? Is it short for something? ![]()
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