Escaping Peril (book)

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Escaping Peril is the eighth book in the Wings of Fire series. The official release date was Tuesday, December 29, 2015, with the cover released on the Scholastic Wings of Fire forums on Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Tui T. Sutherland has said that the protagonist will be a SkyWing, and was eventually confirmed at an event that it would be Peril. Escaping Peril follows Winter Turning and precedes Talons of Power.

"In this one, you’ll be finding out a lot more about Queen Ruby and Turtle, discovering the identity of that mysterious NightWing from Winter Turning, spending a little time with almost every dragonet who’s already had a book, meeting a very irrepressible young SkyWing, and, of course, getting inside the head of Peril, who might be Pyrrhia’s craziest dragon (my little psychopath with a heart of gold!) (sure, that’s a thing).  :)"

— Tui, from her blog

Teaser

Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle -- or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying -- and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things. She can't escape her firescales, and she can't escape her reputation as deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia. So when she's offered a chance to trade everything for a new life, Peril has to decide who she's really loyal to . . . And whether her own scales might actually be worth saving. Check it out!

Book Synopsis

Prologue

The prologue takes place just before the brightest night, from the point of view of Princess Ruby. She recollects the last time she saw her sister, Princess Tourmaline, 3 days ago. Tourmaline had been planning to take the throne from Queen Scarlet, with the intention of ending the war. However, she mysteriously vanished the next day without telling Ruby or any other dragons she was going anywhere. While wondering if Scarlet killed Tourmaline, Ruby is called by Scarlet to meet in the throne room. She enters to find several other SkyWings already assembled there, and is told to stand between brothers Vermilion and Hawk. Vermilion snorted at her but Hawk gave her a friendly smile. Ruby wonders if Hawk was acting friendly because he knew she will be dead once she challenges Scarlet. Scarlet then tells the crowd about the SkyWing egg that was stolen to fulfill the prophecy. Her guards carry in all the eggs that were to hatch on the brightest night at her request, and she reveals Peril, who is a very young dragonet at this time. Scarlet declares Peril her future champion, and demonstrates her power by giving her a SkyWing egg to hold. The dragonet inside dies, and the egg burns. Scarlet then tells Peril to touch all of the other eggs, and they are also burnt. The crowd is horrified by this demonstration, and Ruby sees this as proof that she cannot take the throne from Scarlet. It is now that she wonders if Peril killed Tourmaline, and seems to subconsciously blame Peril for the loss of her sister.

Part 1: Scales of Fire

Queen Ruby has come to Jade Mountain Academy to perform the proper SkyWing death rituals for Carnelian. Clay instructs Peril to stay inside her cave until she leaves, but Peril (under the impression that Clay had come) leaps into the hallway, nearly bumping into Turtle. He prompts her to spy on the Carnelian proceedings secretly.

They are interupted when Queen Scarlet arrives, holding a damaged Queen Glory's head. Sunny is left screaming in horror while Tsunami gets extremely furious, and chases after Scarlet. Ruby spots Peril and demand why she is in the mountains but Peril claims that the queen can't keep her away from her friends.

Clay, Ruby, and Peril study the head but when Turtle has a look, he recognizes the head as an enchantment. Scarlet had apparantly killed a MudWing and enchanted it to look like Glory. They are shocked that there had been an animus because there are very few animus's in the world.

Trivia

• Instead of following the title pattern of a character name and a gerund, Escaping Peril is the other way around.
• At an event, Sutherland revealed the full cover.
• Escaping Peril will be the second book with closeup of a character other than the main character. The other book being Moon Rising, with a close up of Turtle on the cover.
• There was a preview of Escaping Peril at the end of Assassin.
• This is the first book with a SkyWing POV.
• The prologue is set seven years ago, told from Princess Ruby's perspective.
• Escaping Peril came out December 17th in Canada. 
• Some Barnes and Nobles stores in the U.S. had Escaping Peril unboxed since December 22. 
• In the first release of the cover of Escaping Peril, Peril's eyes were white, which was later changed to blue for the final book cover, Peril's actual eye color.
• A supposing spelling error takes place at the end of the book when Tui says "Hugest" instead of "Biggest" probably on purpose

Gallery

• The full cover of Escaping Peril (By Joy Ang)
  The full cover of Escaping Peril (By Joy Ang)
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  Physical Cover of Escaping Peril
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• Original cover
  Original cover
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• I found a lot of escaping peril books!
  I found a lot of escaping peril books!
• Back Cover
  Back Cover