Despite the fame of book series like Harry Potter, one is always a little worried when an author decides to return to the well and revisit earlier, successful works. His latest novel, Darkwing, will only enhance his reputation and popularity.
Oppel is widely recognized as one of Canada’s best authors for adolescent readers. Kenneth Oppel’s latest work will leave you breathless. “It’s a bird, isn’t it?” he heard the second felid say. Even though he knew he couldn’t be caught, the mere idea of that creature looking at him was terrifying. Heart pounding, he veered out of the moonlight and into the deeper shadow. “One of them flies!”ĭusk had thought himself invisible in the dark, but he had clearly underestimated the felid’s night vision. 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.CM Magazine: Darkwing.
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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