5/18/2023 0 Comments Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel![]() Oppel writes with keen insight and empathy about the condition of being “other” in the context of a richly plotted, fast-paced story that-though sometimes too heavily anthropomorphized-is captivating reading from beginning to end. Kenneth Oppels new novel tackles many classic themes of the young-adult genre - family, identity, finding a place in the world - and addresses them thoughtfully. Clearly the world is poised on the brink of remarkable change, and the future belongs to these two. Dusk’s real nemesis, however, is a beast (a “felid”) called Carnassial, who is the first of his kind to be carnivorous, and like Dusk, is shunned by his own. ![]() Predictably, the others regard him as a mutant to be shunned-all but his father, who wisely considers his son’s differences as gifts. ![]() Only Dusk, youngest son of the colony’s leader, has made an evolutionary leap not only can he fly, he can also see at night, using echo vision. ![]() In this ambitious new stand-alone fantasy, he turns the clock back 65 million years to imagine the world of the bats’ earliest ancestors, which he calls “chiropters.” These tree-dwelling creatures are flightless, using their wings (which they call “sails”) to glide through the air, from tree to tree. In his Silverwing series Oppel spun a contemporary fantasy about the world of bats. ![]()
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