Book Review: Sunwing

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Sunwing, from the same author as Silverwing (Kennth Oppel) Is another book about a bat name Shade. While he is in search of his father, he finds a human building that contains a large forest that is home to many bats. It is a summer temperature inside the building with lots of food. The human building is like a greenhouse so the bats can finaly see the sun without having to worry about getting eaten by owls. Shade notices that humans come during the day and take away a good hundred or so bats while they are sleeping. Soon after they re taken away on a journey in which they end up in the far southern jungle, the home of the three foot wingspan cannibal bats called Goth . With the help of his brightwing friend Marina, abandoned owl prince and General Cortez in the rat army, they try to find Shade’s father and stop Goth from creating never ending night by getting the powers of Cama Zotz.

This book is a very action packed story that is told from the perspective of a bat. He is the runt of his colony and is always getting himself into trouble somehow. This is in a way similar to Pip in Great expectations because they’re both always on some kind of adventure weather it be running away from cannibals or trying to become a gentleman. In a way this entire book is personified because it is about bats doing things that they would not normally do like try to see the sun, and seeing the sun is something that people often do. I thought this book was very well written and enjoyed every part of it. I did not see anywhere where necessary to change the book and would recommend this book to anyone who likes any type of fiction stories.