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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- Behind the scenesBig launch
Darkstalker came out June 28, 2016, with a 125,000-copy first printing, five times that of book one.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDragon swag
Scholastic handed out 10,000 origami dragon kits, and Barnes & Noble had an exclusive edition with game pieces and a Pyrrhia map.
source ↗ - ReferenceAlso a comic
Darkstalker got a graphic novel version in 2025.
source ↗ - SetupToo many gifts
Darkstalker loves giving enchanted gifts. Watch what each one really does.
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- Behind the scenesThe agent's idea
Tui's agent, Steven Malk, asked her: what about a fantasy series where the dragons are all the main characters? She says she got excited right away.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesClay has a model
Tui started the series right after her first son was born. Clay's kind, loyal nature was modeled on him.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesModest start
The first printing, in July 2012, was 25,000 copies. Eight books later, the series had 2.9 million copies in print in the U.S.
source ↗ - SetupRead the prophecy closely
The prophecy poem opens the book. Reread it: who wrote it, and why, matters again later.
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- Behind the scenesReal kids talking
Tui wanted the dialogue to sound like real kids on an adventure, even though they're dragons. Hence the slang and Tsunami's snark.
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The Lost Heir got a graphic novel version in February 2019, drawn by Mike Holmes, from Graphix.
source ↗ - SetupRare magic
This is where animus magic, which enchants objects, first shows up. Note the price it carries: it comes back again and again in the series.
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- Behind the scenesA favorite to write
Tui says Glory is one of the most fun characters to write.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesDocumentary tribes
Each tribe lives in its own kind of landscape: desert, sea, mountains, rainforest. The idea came partly from nature documentaries like Planet Earth.
source ↗ - ReferenceWatch the assassin
The NightWing Deathbringer debuts here. He got his own story, Assassin, later collected in The Winglets Quartet.
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- Behind the scenesFirst bestseller list
The Dark Secret, from October 2013, was the book that put the series on national bestseller lists.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe half-sister speaks
Fierceteeth, Starflight's half-sister, narrates the Winglet Prisoners, later collected in The Winglets Quartet.
source ↗ - SetupThe dream sapphire
Starflight uses a sapphire that lets one dragon walk into another's dreams, the dreamvisitor. Remember that stone: it turns up again.
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- Behind the scenesTV seasons
Tui planned the series in five-book arcs, like TV seasons. She cites Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a model. This book closes the first one.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesEnter Qibli
Qibli, the SandWing who debuts here, was partly inspired by Tui's younger son.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe human side
Humans, whom the dragons call scavengers, barely appear here. Dragonslayer tells the same period from their side.
source ↗ - SetupThe buried mirror
Sunny buries a magic object in the desert, the Obsidian Mirror. Nobody mentions it again for a while. Don't forget it.
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- Behind the scenesThe human view
Tui described it as the story of three humans who grew up under the threat of dragons, set during books 1 to 5.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe thickest
At 512 pages in hardcover, it's the longest book in the series.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe heist that started it all
The book opens with humans robbing the SandWing treasury. In The Brightest Night, the war starts with Queen Oasis being killed by scavengers.
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- Behind the scenesA new season
For Tui, each arc is like a new season: new characters take over the narration, and the five dragonets from Arc 1 become teachers.
source ↗ - ReferenceFamiliar face
Kinkajou, the RainWing Glory rescued in The Hidden Kingdom, comes back as a student in Moon's winglet.
source ↗ - SetupThe voice in her head
Moon hears a voice no one else can. Pay attention to what it says, and what it leaves out.
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- Behind the scenesA ranked society
The IceWings rank everyone in seven circles. Winter dropped in rank just because his brother was captured.
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Winter Turning became a graphic novel in 2023, the seventh comics adaptation of the series.
source ↗ - SetupThe lost city
Moon's prophecy mentions a lost NightWing kingdom. Finding it becomes the thread of the whole arc.
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- Behind the scenesCliff has a model
Cliff, the tiny SkyWing in this book, is based on Tui's second son at age three. She calls him the funniest, craziest little person.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFun to write
Peril is one of the characters Tui most enjoys writing, along with Glory.
source ↗ - ReferenceOld friends
Peril and Clay met in Queen Scarlet's arena in The Dragonet Prophecy. That's where the friendship driving this book began.
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- Behind the scenesWritten mid-launch
When Darkstalker hit stores in June 2016, Tui was still editing Talons of Power, which came out December 27.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe animus sister
Anemone, Turtle's sister, appeared in The Lost Heir as the SeaWings' secret weapon.
source ↗ - SetupTurtle's things
Turtle carries a little pouch of things he enchanted himself. Each one is there for a reason.
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- Behind the scenesPlanned finale
Back in 2016, Tui already called book 10 the projected finale of the arc, before she had finished writing it.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesLongest of the arc
At 432 pages in U.S. hardcover, it's the longest book in Arc 2.
source ↗ - ReferenceBack to the Den
The Scorpion Den, the lawless town where Sunny found Thorn in The Brightest Night, is where Qibli grew up.
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- Behind the scenesBug research
To build Pantala, Tui watched the insect documentary Life in the Undergrowth. She found it amazing, and terrifying.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesStarting over
A new continent was a chance to start over and plan out a whole new society, Tui says.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe seer's book
An old book of prophecies circulates in Pantala, the Book of Clearsight. The seer Clearsight is one of the narrators of Darkstalker.
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- Behind the scenesA real wasp
The mind-control idea came from a real wasp that can control a caterpillar or an ant for a while. Tui left out some wasp behavior she found too creepy.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCover dragon
Cricket, the narrator, is the dragon on the U.S. cover of book 12.
source ↗ - SetupThe unmarked egg
Cricket takes an orphan egg with her. Notice what makes it different.
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- Behind the scenesThe fierce one
Tui describes Sundew as a fierce LeafWing. She narrates book 13, out July 30, 2019.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesLong wait
After this book, fans waited almost two years for the next one: The Dangerous Gift didn't come out until March 2021.
source ↗ - ReferenceVisitors from Pyrrhia
Tsunami and Turtle, from Pyrrhia, have crossed the sea and are in Pantala, as the end of The Hive Queen showed.
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- Behind the scenesThe outsider
Snowfall is the only Arc 3 narrator who isn't from Pantala.
source ↗ - ReferenceDragonslayer cameo
The human Wren and the SkyWing Sky, from Dragonslayer, show up here and play a part in the story.
source ↗ - ReferenceIce family
Snowfall is the cousin of Winter, narrator of Winter Turning, and the two meet again in this book.
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- Behind the scenesClosing the plan
Tui said in 2019 that books 14 and 15 had to be something she really cared about, not just a way to keep the series going.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFour-year gap
After this book, from April 2022, the next novel in the series didn't come out until March 2026.
source ↗ - ReferenceLuna in Pyrrhia
Luna, Blue's sister, ended up in Pyrrhia and met Moon, as The Hive Queen showed.
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- Behind the scenesBack after four years
Published by Scholastic Press on March 3, 2026, it's the first main novel in the series since 2022.
source ↗ - ReferenceBack to Moon Rising
The story picks up right after the events of Moon Rising, with two students who left Jade Mountain.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesShow in the works
Amazon has been developing an animated series since 2024. Tui is co-writer and executive producer.
source ↗ - ReferenceAnother Winglet
A month earlier, in February 2026, the e-book story Hero came out, narrated by Jasper, Ruby and Cliff.
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- Behind the scenesE-book first
The four stories first came out as e-books in 2015 and 2016. The first three were printed in 2016, and all four together in 2020.
source ↗ - ReferenceWho narrates
The narrators are Fierceteeth, Deathbringer, Six-Claws and, in the last story, Foeslayer, Arctic and others.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBonus at the end
The print edition includes an excerpt from Darkstalker at the back.
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