The Lost Continent (Wings of Fire #11) (11) Paperback – Illustrated, December 26, 2019

My daughter loves it. Especially dragon series.

I have always loved your books, but this one was the best out of all of them! My favorite book before this one was Darkness of Dragons. I love your books so much that I have memorized all 15 Books' names just because I love them so much! I am nine and my mom encourages me to read these books, but I really wanted to read the first book and the books kept getting better and better! I hope you can see this review. Thank you for making Wings Of Fire!

Awesome dragon series I'm reading with our grandsons.

This is the eleventh book in the Wings of Fire series and starts a new storyline on a new continent we have never visited before. Although some of the story elements are very similar to previous books, I did really enjoy meeting new characters and exploring both whole new types of dragons and a whole new landscape. I continue to read these mainly because my son reads this series and likes to discuss it with me; however I actually really enjoyed this book!This book starts with a prequel featuring Clearwater and her journey across the seas to a new continent of Dragons. The new continent is called Pantala. There are new types of dragons on Pantal including HiveWings, LeafWings, and SilkWings. After this prequel we journey many centuries into the future where a SilkWing named Blue is preparing for his Metamorphosis along with his sister Luna.This book introduces a whole bunch of new dragon types and some great new fun characters. I loved Blue with his quiet tentativeness and Cricket with her non-traditional HiveWing views.All the characters in here are a lot of fun. The new world is interesting as well. There was a lot of adventure, some awesome fight scenes, and lots of new and interesting dragon-abilities and politics.Overall this was a fun and quick read that I enjoyed a lot. I really enjoyed the new and creative setting and the new types of dragons. My son also really loved this book. Sutherland continues to write an intriguing adventure fantasy series that has fun characters and is highly entertaining to read. Recommended to those who enjoy middle grade fantasy adventure featuring dragons.

Rereading definitely made me appreciate the world of The Lost Continent even more than the first time. The relationship between the SilkWings and HiveWings is so utterly heartbreaking. Queen Wasp's usage of a pacifistic society is sickening and a little too realistic, in some ways. SilkWings are raised with good food and homes and education, but they are forced into breeding programs (nothing as inhumane as warehouses or sex slaves, but they are told whom they can be mated with and so on), trained for specific jobs and only those jobs, seen as second class citizens, and dissension and "misbehavior" is dealt with severely. Young SilkWings are taken every school year to the jail and forced to see what will happen if they misbehave. SilkWings who mature into flamesilks are thrown into dark pits and forced to spin their silk as a commodity for the HiveWings, controlled entirely by Queen Wasp. The dank caves with timed feeding is considered preferable by its inhabitants because, as Admiral tells Blue near the end of the book, "there used to be chains."This easy manipulation of power by Wasp and the devotion of the HiveWings--who unknowingly are pawns to Wasp as well--makes her one of the most interesting villains to date. Everything about this book makes me think about if Blister had become queen of the SandWings in the first series cycle. This is the series of "what happens after the evil queen wins the throne." I cannot wait to see how this plays out over the next four books. I find the characters to be fascinating, complex--though still needing development--and I want to learn more about Wasp, the war, and the geography of the continent.

He love the series.

To put it simply, I was dreading this book, and was pleasantly surprised by what I found. It was a good book, for sure. I liked the plot, and HATED the villain, and was quickly endeared to the main characters. What I didn’t like - the book started off at a good pace, but as soon as the plot picked up it went so fast it felt like time was in fast forward. Also, the world was very different, incredibly more advanced than any of the books before, leaving me feeling disconnected from the previous books. It took far too long before I felt like I was reading wings of Fire and not some brand new series. The plot twists were rather predictable for a longtime reader. Though to be fair, few books ever surprise me with their plot twists. The most ‘major’ revelation was very much set up from the beginning and frankly, I would have been MUCH more surprised if the plot twist had at the very least held off till the next book. The epilogue, (spoilers?) back on the original continent felt like a different author had written it, (complete with the utter butchering of the character Qibli, who already suffered deeply in book 10) though the main part of the book was written as normal. I would give it three and a half stars if possible. Good book, but still underwhelming and doesn’t quite tie in with the other books. I erred toward the four star side just because so many of the books I’ve read lately have been complete and utter trash.