The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, Book 12)

The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire, Book 12)

By Tui T. Sutherland

27 ratings 24 reviews 35 followers
Book 12 of 13 in the  Wings of Fire Series
Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered.

Now she's hiding again, wanted for stealing the Book of Clearsight along with her new SilkWing friends, Blue and Swordtail, and the fierce LeafWing, Sundew. The fugitives need answers, and fast, in order to prevent a LeafWing attack. But Cricket has more questions than ever. How can she stay hidden and discover the queen's deadliest secret? And if she does succeed -- can a powerless dragonet really do anything to topple a regime and stop a war?
Publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN-13: 9781338214499
ISBN-10: 1338214497
Published on 7/21/2020
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 320

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The book The Hive Queen by Tui T. Sutherland is a awesome read if you like dragons, rebels, and pressure. Cricket has so many questions, but she has no one to answer them because she helped a Silkwing. Now she has to save the flamesilks her tribe and most of all the whole continent. Will she and her friends save the continent? I highly recommend this book!!!

This book has a lot of backstory about one of the more fascinating characters of the arc: Cricket. We learn about her past and it all ties in nicely to her future. This book id pretty good and has good writing and description and emotion in it.

Getting close to the end and I'm sad. In this book we learn a lot about Cricket and her life before she met her friends. We learn why she's different and how she really feels about Blue. Lots of twists and turns abound in this installation of the story, and there is no lacking for suspense in this one either. My favorite part only gives away a small portion of the plot line but I have to mention it. They end up caring for a baby dragonet that hatches on their watch and it becomes attached to the grumpy Sundew. So much cuteness and hilariousness ensues! I so love that part of the story! Can't wait to see how it develops and if it does in the next book, which I could only get in hardcover and is sitting next to me. A wonderful series and I love it. For such a short Wings of Fire book, I found myself clinging to the pages, eager to see what was going to happen next. This series hasn't disappointed me yet, and this book certainly didn't let me down. The characters are all so lovable, especially sweet bookworm Cricket and Sundew, who grew on me as the book progressed. But what I really like about this particular arc of the Wings of Fire series is just how serious these books get. This one deals with slavery and neglectful parents in a way that I believe any reader could understand and draw their own conclusions from. And of course, what I always love about this series are the epilogues. This book's epilogue was chilling, and I cannot wait to read book 13 to see what happens next.

Cricket loves books. Books don't tell you what to do, what not to do, and boss you around, instead, they give you answers. Just what she wants, right? All she thinks. Big dreams, and big theories lead Cricket, Blue, And Sundew, through a mysterious journey of answers, leading to questions, leading to theories, leading to....uggh. Frustration and indecisive feelings make Cricket realize, that life isn't just a like of books. Blue isn't just an amazing workbook to study. Sundew's tribe is real. Queen Wasp's mind control powers ARE there. It's time to face the facts, and fast, or else....

Cricket is a dragon from the continent of Pantala. Ever since she was born, there has been something unique about her that no one else knows about, except for her sister, Katydid. The queen of their tribe can mind control every dragon on Pantala any time she wants—but it doesn’t work on Cricket, and it never has. She’s never told anyone, for fear of being discovered...until she meets Blue, who is from a different tribe. She helps him escape from the zombified dragons one day, but doesn’t know the consequences that this action holds. Suddenly, Cricket and Blue are thrown into a world where everything is made out of lies, where failure is not an option. Everything they have been told is a fallacy, and lives are at stake...but they must risk being killed, if it means finding out the truth about Cricket’s queen and both of their tribes. They must figure out how the mind control works—and how to stop it. The two young dragons, along with their friends Sundew and Swordtail, have begun their quest for the truth—and they will never stop searching. But when every other dragon thinks of them as criminals who violated the law by defying their queen, how will Cricket and her companions survive? Then, when they learn a terrible secret about the mind control, the very existence of dragons is about to be plunged into darkness. Can four unlikely heroes save their whole continent? Read this book to find out!

I don't even have words to describe this book. I love how it shows the different parts of war and how neither side is really "good" or "bad". The characters are fun and its impossible not to fall in love with them.

This is the 3 book of the 3 section ( i have put them into sections because it kinda is written in section, each section will swap main dragons.) This book tells you more in the Hivewing perspective.

This book is absolute awesomeness! Like the 11th book, it takes place as a world with dragons. This book is about trying to hide and protect other dragons from an evil queen that has extremely powerful powers that she uses for terrible purposes. I definitely reccomend this book to people who love mystery, adventure, craziness, and more! :P

It is a masterpiece on paper

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