The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, Book 12)

My daughter has been reading Wings of Fire for the past year and she love this book. Cricket, the main character from what she has told me, is probably her favorite character in the whole series from the why she talks about her. She love the whole idea of this book and loves all the little details in it. She love Cricket's book and how the character thinks and acts. The product itself was in perfect condition when it arrived and has stayed so throughout all the time she has had it and the cover is beautiful, all the little details just ties it all together. This book was a wonderful product and a great book and I myself have actually been thinking on reading the series.

My daughter is very happy with this purchase, I ordered several in order to complete her collection. She loves these books and recommends them for teenagers that loves dragon stories

i’m 20 now but these books were my childhood, i trickled off from reading them when i got into high school and after the first lost continent book came out. i rediscovered my old collection unpacking some box and fell back in love with the series, i bought every book that i didn’t already own in fact. i could read these again and again and probably will. since this was a first read for me it was simultaneously nostalgic and exciting. i actually remember hating cricket when i first read the lost continent(found out while reading it after recently purchasing it that i didn’t read the entire book previously. totally worth holding off on my judgements this time around.

But as for an actual review:Reading from Cricket's perspective was amazing and, at times, so sad. This series continues to blow me away with the relevance to kids, teens, and even adults' lives. Cricket informs us right off the bat that her parents can't stand her and that her mother left the family to go "pursue her dreams." So many people I know have dealt with similar issues, and it's sad and hard to see. Cricket is still dealing with this, even though she's never liked her mother. Cricket's character grows and learns throughout the book, though her questions never cease.I enjoyed seeing her bubbly attitude and realistic look at life take the radicals aback in how she simply laid out what would happen if the LeafWings went straight into war and attacked the HiveWings and burned the hives. Death, and most of it innocent people.The first series arc started in the middle of a war with the Dragonets of Destiny dealing with the repercussions of a pointless war. This series is now taking the side of "what do you do after a genocide;" is it OK for retaliation or do things need to be left? What should be done. The characters, Cricket especially, struggle with these questions because wrongs have been done, yet another genocide is not the answer. Cricket starts to see her HiveWing world for the horrific slave-trade/indentured servant world that it is, at it's a culture shock for her to see how badly her world suffers from racism.All-in-all, I loved watching Cricket understand the repercussions of genocide and racism and watching her come to understand that the HiveWings are a racist society towards everyone else.

first i would like to mention that we dont meet Sundews one true love until book 13 people have been bringing this books rating down just for somthing that happens later in the series which is not cool. and for the people out there who dont like Sundews partner and their LGBTQ+ relationship imagine if that was you hating you and discrimanating you for who you love! im a kid and i wasnt bothered at all by her relatilnship but if parents dont yet want that conversation with their kids which is perfrctly fine i suggest reading the book first. anyways i dint come here to talk only about book 13 i really enjoyed the hive queen it was fast paced but still showed the characters in a meaningful way. Spoiler alert!!!!!! i did not see that twist coming with Kaytidid! and i totally ship Blicket they are so cute! oh and bumble bee she is absolutley adorble!!! all in all i loved this book it reflect our society in a way that you can relate to dragons but also be capivted by twists and reveals that wont llow ypu to set this book down!sorry for the bd spelling its hard to type on a kindle with the slight lag and sorry for y review being so all over the place folks have great day!

I adored Cricket's million question thoughts! She's such a positive person, and I think she brings out the best in all the other dragons (even though she annoys them from time to time). And don't even get me started on Bumblebee! TheHive Queen was an amazing read and it had me hooked at the end of each chapter. I'm so glad author Tui T. Sutherland wrote the story of such awesome dragons!

First of all -- buy this book. It's still worth it. I did have a hard time deciding whether to give this book three stars or four, but my issues are minor enough that I went with four. The good points are easy -- the plot is great, the twists are good and personally I didn't see them coming too far in advance for it to be exciting, and there are some really great character development scenes. My nitpicks are mostly with the pacing. The book takes place over a short period of time, so nearly every interaction is rushed. They fly too quickly from scene to scene with little meaningful interaction between the main group, Cricket and Blue in particular are lacking. Blue seemed to have lost his personality (while Swordtail and Sundew did get development so I suppose I can't complain). There are a few good scenes where Cricket has meaningful interaction and the story takes time to 'be' before rushing off to the next plot point, but always with dragons outside of the main clique of heros. The book is overall enjoyable, but a bit disappointing as everything is rushed by too fast for anything to sink in. It is not the best book in the series, but definitely not the worst and reading it is worth it, even with the 'trying to win a race for fastest book resolution' type pacing.