Darkstalker Legends is a legend book, which is a part of the Wings of Fire series. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically a series about dragons saving the world from worldwide threats. This time, it shows a villain’s perspective, Darkstalker, the power-hungry self-proclaimed “King of Pyrrhia.” (Pyrrhia: fictional world where the dragons live). I read this book around 4-3 years ago when I was about 8 or 9, and it was a really good yet violent book. 

I didn’t really love the slowness of it in the beginning, but then it gradually became darker, and now reading it, it was pretty depressing because one: Clearsight, Darkstalker’s girlfriend, had to pretty much stop him and give up all of their glorious futures and say goodbye to him, and two: it was just depressing all the way through… Darkstalker being born with a terrible father doesn’t help, to be honest. 

Darkstalker is a NightWing-IceWing hybrid, with the NightWing gift of reading minds, foreseeing the future, and animus powers. He is a pretty overpowered dragon, and wanted to keep those powers for himself. He manipulated other dragons, as well as his seer girlfriend, Clearsight. Darkstalker’s intentions are good, but it’s his actions that are bad and cannot be justified. At first, he was a sane-ish dragon, with the intention to do grand things for his tribe and for all of Pyrrhia. Throughout his whole life (or, well, the seven years he was conscious on Pyrrhia), he had a burning hate for his father, Prince Arctic, who generally treated Darkstalker and his sister like trash.

In contrast to Arctic, Foeslayer/Hope, Darkstalker’s mother, was caring and kind to both her daughter and son. Despite their family not being perfect, she constantly tries to bring them together. Darkstalker’s sister, Whiteout, was an eccentric dragon, who has associative synesthesia, a condition that affects perception. Arctic favors her, but ignores her feelings, wanting her to be a normal IceWing, like him. 

In conclusion, I love this book, and how terrible and real the family is. Tui did a good job writing their personalities and their interactions.