Book Review
Title: Pipe of Wings (Dragon School #15)
Author: Sarah K. L. Wilson
Genre: YA/Fantasy
Rating: ****
Review: After the ending of Ancient Allies, I had to rate it only 4 stars which is the only book apart from the first one that has a rating less than 5 stars and it is for one reason; Jalla. I hate Jalla as a character and if I remember correctly she also plays a large role in Pipe of Wings and Dragon Piper, which means these books probably won’t get 5 stars either. However, Dragon Piper was the last book I read in the series meaning after book 16, it is all new for me. After Jalla claims the title of Lord of War in Baojang, they march towards the Dominion to deal with the Ifrits and after that Jalla wants to concur the Dominion which Amel will not allow.
It seems that the pipe doesn’t work for Jalla but it has given her political power beyond measure, not even Rakturan has the authority to stand against her now. On their way there, Jalla gives Amel the mission of returning to the Dominion, finding another dragon rider, and bringing them to her in order to carry messages. Amel doesn’t want to do this but it seems that there is something in the water in Baojang that is addictive and she has been spiking Amel to ensure her loyalty and servitude, which just makes me hate her even more. Jalla immediately sends Amel and Raolcan off on their mission but conveniently forgets to remove the pipe from Raolcan’s saddle bag meaning Amel is now in possession of the one thing that gave Jalla that power in the first place and before they meet up again, she needs to figure out what it is used for and how to use it effectively in order to save her friends.
From the brief scenes we have of Amel using the pipe it seems like it summons any winged animals nearby to her but that doesn’t explain how it dealt with the Ifrits during the test, so it seems a little confusing right now. After arriving back in the Dominion, Amel runs into Lenora and Ephretti and asks for their help in dealing with Jalla who Ephretti knows of. Ephretti agrees to help Amel if she helps them deal with the Ifrits at the healing arches and having no other choice, Amel agrees and they begin flying through enemy territory to get there. Amel also learns that Jalla was telling the truth about the water and that just adds another level of difficulty to her situation. She is also emotionally strained as she has seen in her visions that Leng and Hubric don’t know what happened to her and are beginning to fear she is dead, while Savette speaks in her mind and begs her to hurry to Dominion City before everything is lost to the Dusk Covenant.
By the time Lenora, Ephretti and Amel arrive at the healing arches they are greeted by an army of Magikas drawing hundreds of Ifrits from the earth and Amel knows Ephretti’s plan is suicide and she needs to come up with a better solution other than destroying the arches which she knows will be a great asset in the battles to come. As Amel expected things don’t go to plan as she takes an arrow to the leg and is knocked unconscious for the better part of two days and when she awakens, the healing arches have been destroyed so the Dusk Covenant are slaughtering everyone in order to substitute the power of the arches and Amel has mere minutes to do something before they all end up dead. The ending of Pipe of Wings, reveals that the pipe can call any winged animal including Dragons and after Amel sacrificed her good leg in order to use it, she is healed of her wound and the Silla effects but she has gained a new role as the dragons look to her for instruction as the one who called them. While Amel is bitter about losing the use of her good leg, she knows what she has achieved in this place might just been enough to change the tide of the war and earns herself a new name; Hopebringer.
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