But in his colony, being different means being shunned or worse, so he forces himself to glide like everyone else and keeps his secret to himself. Furthermore, he finds that from the moment his father pushes him off the tree, Dusk yearns to flap. A tale that can be read as a stand- lone or as a prequel, Darkwing will be a welcome new classic for the millions of Kenneth Oppel fans.Dusk is a newborn chiropter who is distinctly different from his peers - his legs are weaker, has two claws insted of three, his sails are furless, and he can hear things that other chiropters can't. As with all Silverwing books, it is impossible to simply read Oppel’s Darkwing each of us enters a world of convincing characters, warring theologies, incredible natural history and a story that roars through head, heart and imagination.
After most of the colony is savagely massacred by the felids-the earth’s first mammalian carnivores-Dusk must lead his fellow chiropters to a new home, and a new life.Īgainst a tableau of disappearing dinosaurs and the ascent of the mammal kingdom, Oppel has created an adventure fantasy that sets the stage for the birth of the bats, the story of the forebears of Shade, the beloved hero of the Silverwing series. But this strange gift that makes him feel like an outcast from the colony will also make him its saviour. Not content to use his large sails to glide down from the giant sequoia tree, Dusk discovers that if he flaps quickly enough, he can fly. What he does know is that he is different from the other newborn chiropters. It is 65 million years ago, during a cataclysmic moment in the earth’s evolution, and Dusk, just months old, has no way of knowing he will play a pivotal role in creating a new world. Before there were bats like Shade, Marina or even Goth, there was a young chiropter-a small arboreal glider-named Dusk.
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