Silverwing is just amazing! I read it in just a day, and that's no small feat for me! It was just so capturing! It was quite fast-paced I found, but I liked that for a change!It was just un-put-down-able! The story-line is very original, which I loved, and is about bats! This is my very first bat fiction story that I've read, and it had made me have a taste for bat stories!This is a flawless and exciting story {{I found myself cheering and wishing Goth and Throbb would just hurry up and die!}} a...

I really like this book because it's full of adventures. I was really impressed by the author, as that he basically wrote a nonfiction book about bats into a fictional story. Besides from that, he descriptions are very specific. If you have read the book, you'll notice that he didn't use any colors to describe except for black and white. I recommend this book to people who enjoy adventure stories.

Just to clear it up, I did not hate this book. I just didn’t enjoy it.I’ve given it one star merely based on the fact I could not finish the book. I haven’t read it in weeks because I felt like I was dragging dead weight around and I just couldn’t tread through the book any longer.It was so insanely predictable and boring and there was so many unnecessary road-blocks. Let me get into that.-Spoilers ahead-So, Shade is a bat. Shade and his herd of bats are living in their dream home where owls don...

Who writes a book about bats? Kenneth Oppel does! And he does it extremely well. The characters are all very realistic and I felt like I was watching real bats with the descriptions and actions. One of my favorite things that still blows my mind about this book is that the author admits to using only 'black', 'white', and 'silver' as colors in the book. I didn't even notice, but now that I know it's very amazing to me. Kudos to Kenneth Oppel and his great writing.

A message from my 10 year old self: This is an excellant book! It is all about the journey of a young bat, and what he encounters. I learned quite alot, not like it's true or anything (but it might!) and I didn't get bored. I read it in approximately a day. Bullies, friends, myths and lots more fun stuff is jammed into this great novel! Congrats Oppel!

Rating: 8 out of 10This was an awesome read and I loved it! This was a recommendation from a friend, and let me begin saying he was right about this being a great book!I really enjoy books about animals in general, so I might be biased here. But there's just something about them that makes them a lot easier to connect with. Might be the fact that they have an overall ageless feeling, or because they don't feel as gendered as most fictional people. Or maybe it's simply because animals are cute! I...

for some reason i remember this being one of the first novels i read in grade 2-3? wow, memories. i also read it out of order. the more you know. firewing, silverwing, sunwing. yay.

I began reading this novel because my grandson in the fourth grade was reading it. He was enthusiastic about this book and I wanted to show interest in his school work. The areas of study are endless! (character studies, friendship, compare the various bat characters with people you might know...leads conversation into bullying, deceitful people, friends vs enemies, creative writing and nature studies etc.) This is a beautifully written novel which gives descriptions and facts in an interesting

Charming animal fantasy for children, readable for adults.

I loved it, it was a inspiring story of a small bat who's bravery is anything but small and determination of a fierce character. The story is wonderfully written and beautiful.

I read this book a long time ago and a few of the concepts in it stuck with me... I liked the idea of the echo-chamber that houses all the knowledge of the bats, just like we have books (or now the internet). It's a one-star because the characters are bland, the theme is boring, and the 'message' is too weak even for a children's book.

Wow, this book was excellent! Animal fantasy using bats as the main characters - you have to be creative to pull something like that off. I forget where I saw a recommendation for this series, but, initially, I thought, no way. Then I saw it at a used bookstore for cheap and bought the first two books. Partway into the first, I realized that this series is special. There's some odd relationships going on in the book, but I'm assuming that Oppel is laying out the immaturity of the main characters...

Being a fan of bats, I was very pleased to find this new trilogy, with bats as the main characters! The hero's quest to find his colony, as well as unraveling layers of legend and mystery surrounding an ancient prophecy, was fun. I especially liked the aerial action scenes and the description of echolocation.

The book made by Kenneth Oppel has made many kids wanting to read. It makes them read by making a story of a bat and its journey after doing something that is not allowed by the owls. This book is a gateway book for kids who like to see these journey style books. It was read to me when i was in 5th grade and our teacher would read it to us. This book is about a bat who sees the sun and is hunted down. It tells a story of how he gets separated during a winter migration and finds himself alone, bu...

This book was a really good but around the middle of it, I thought that it was quite boring. My favorite part was defiantly the end. My favorite character is Marina because she plays a big part in the whole story.

Not going to lie: I read these books as a kid at the library and absolutely adored them. In fact: I’ve remembered the story fondly for years but completely forgot the title and author, so I was never able to retrace this book. Until I randomly stumbled upon it at the second hand bookstore. And all the memories came flooding back in...Reread planned soon

4.5?? love a nostalgic one-day read — pleased to report this holds up pretty well. it’s a little bit of a predictable hero’s journey, and i did find one typo. however, the world building and interlacing of different lore and bat-cultures is really cool, the characters are strong (though their characterization is sometimes exceedingly obvious) and i think the pacing is pretty decent. i also deeply appreciate the attention to detail by the author in terms of descriptions — so many things are descr...

2.75I saw this book recommended in a group recently, and it sounded like it could be fun. The fact that it fits an October month challenge, along with the fact that my local library actually had it in the shelves, pushed it up the line a bit.It was a cute adventure story about a runt silverwing bat who is smart and curious and questions things, when most of his colony goes along with the status quo out of (justified) fear. His biggest adventure happens when, during a storm, he gets separated fro...

This is my favorite book EVER. Kenneth Oppel is an amazing author, and this fantasy is nothing short of AMAZING. Although, the characters and emotions are so realistic, I can hardly believe it is a fantasy. Bats are my favorite animals, so you could see why I loved the characters. But the characters' personalities and emotions will catch anyone's interest, even a person who doesn't like bats. A mixture of adventure, friendship, and thrill, this novel left me hungry for more, so I went on to read...

The pacing in this story was perfect and there wasn’t a single moment when I felt bored; I was always itching to read the next chapter! I fell in love with Shade and Marina and found myself becoming more engaged in their story as I read on (the scene with Zephyr in the cathedral was a particular favourite of mine).For a book about creatures most people like to see as flying mice with wings, I became increasingly interested in how bats actually find their food and use echolocation to navigate the...