After Tsunami got her own book, it's now time for Glory to take the wheel as POV character. How does her book hold up? Let's find out. Spoilers ahead.
After leaving the Sea Kingdom behind, the Dragonets of Destiny now wind up in the rainforest, home of the RainWings, Glory's species that has a particularly bad reputation for being lazy and useless. Glory isn't fond of how things are run there, but when it seems that multiple RainWings have been missing and none of the queens seem to actively be doing anything against it, she takes it upon herself to locate the missing dragons and bring them back to their tribe safely.
Okay, so this book is really one half of two in the whole "bring back the missing RainWings"-leg of the story. The Hidden Kingdom sets things up, The Dark Secret, the next book, finishes them off. While it would have been nice for this story to be contained in one book, I honestly like the way it was executed. This book did the proper setup and introduced the conflict of the NightWings meddling with the RainWings, though their motives are still purposefully left unclear. The ending of the "rescue the RainWints"-arc is still left open by the end of this, but it's finished very well in the next book.
This book also definitely made Glory my favorite Dragonet of Destiny, maybe even my favorite Wings of Fire character in general. I relate to her a lot, I love her sarcasm and grouchiness, and, above all, it's great to see this victim of abuse rise above it all and become a literal queen by the end of the book. How cool is that? We are also introduced to some RainWings in this book, though not all of them leave as big an impact as I'd like. Kinkajou is okay but does border on annoying sometimes, Jambu is just kind of a standard cheerful character, Mangrove is interesting but doesn't have that big a presence.
One thing I'll also bring up is that it really didn't feel necessary for me to have Glory actually be descended from RainWing loyalty. She literally could've been any RainWing and it really wouldn't change anything. It doesn't make her more capable of running things, she just happens to be the right dragon for the job at the moment. The only real thing this accomplishes is that it stops the venom from spreading on Kinkajou's wing when Grandeur hits her. Other than that, not too much.
The mystery is well build-up and everything is very well-paced. I just loved reading this book and see Glory be with her own Tribe. We also get a hint that Scarlet is still alive, which is definitely interesting!
Overall, I'd say this is maybe one of the strongest Wings of Fire books there is, definitely one of the strongest so far. It should definitely be followed up by The Dark Secret when reading, but even by itself it's a really awesome story with a great main character.
Rating: 5/5
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