Tui T. Sutherland's work - Tumbles the Stairdragon

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Crichax

Crichax

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In my opinion, Tui T. Sutherland is one of the last good YA authors.

I've read most of the Wings of Fire series and all of the Avatars series and found them to be quite engaging.

From the limited selection I've read of her catalog of work, her books don't seem to be preachy YA (yet).

What do you think of her books?
 
Women no write good
YA big trash
 
she wrote something about mythical creatures in someones ranch backyard in like kansas or something that had scary agencies watching over them. the wings of fire books not about schoolkids(?) were pretty good too.
 
Oh look, some woke shit snaked its way into the Wings Of Fire books.
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Oh look, some woke shit snaked its way into the Wings Of Fire books.
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In my opinion it's not the non binary that's the problem. I don't mind how characters identify if they're written well. It's the human. I read this series for dragons without humans for once but oh no here come the humans
 
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In my opinion it's not the non binary that's the problem. I don't mind how characters identify if they're written well. It's the human. I read this series for dragons without humans for once but oh no here come the humans
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The humans factored into the plot before, especially in the first arc, and Dragonslayer may as well be foreshadowing announcing "The humans are going to become more important," so I don't really mind that part. If the series focuses on them past the fifteenth book (assuming it does), then it's going to be a problem for me.

I would agree with you on the "if they're written well" part, but considering Tui's thinking about whether or not to turn Sky and/or Peril transgender, that just set off red flags in me. The non-binary thing was announced alongside the cover and title, so the book is likely going to be focused on him/her out of all the other humans.

I get that the series is aimed for kids and it might be a personal thing for me, but it feels as though it's going to be shoehorned in to be woke instead of making sense in-universe. Keep in mind that the world is essentially in the middle ages during the events of the books. The Scorching almost rendered humanity extinct. Thousands of years later, Stone killed Queen Oasis and caused the majority of their villages to be targeted and burned down by dragons for around 20 years in search for the Sandwing treasure. It's explicitly stated that the humans are endangered and the dragons didn't take them seriously, seeing them as non-sentient pests/pets/prey prior to The Dangerous Gift. Basically, unless you get exceptionally lucky like Stone did, you're not slaying any dragon, end of discussion.

In Dragonslayer, there were pretty strict rules in Tailsman about attracting the attention of dragons or insulting the dragonmancers. In Valor, nobody was allowed to basically piss off Heath or go outside if you're not a Wingwatcher and any rulebreakers were outright banished for it, or for any reason if Heath felt like it. The Indestructible City is the only settlement that fights back against dragons, every other place involves hiding until they go away.

Why am I bringing this up? Because humanity's focus is on survival, first and foremost. Praying that the dragons don't make them their next meal. Nobody in-universe is against that, not even misanthrope Wren. So I believe it's a certainty that if a human tried to be transgender or non-binary in their universe, he/she would get laughed off and told to do something more important. I think even Ivy would've told them to focus on making peace with the dragons or something.

We don't know the history of the humans on Pantala, but I imagine that they're focused on survival just the same.
 
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