A Spoiler Free ReviewI felt The Silver Gryphon was much better than The White Gryphon. It was definitely better paced and I didn’t get annoyed at any of the characters, which was nice. The story is also markedly different than either of the other two books in the series. Part child/parent drama and part Hachet (by Gary Paulsen, which was read to me in third or fourth grade, if I remember correctly).
The children of Skandranon and Amberdrake have issues with their parents, which is unsurprising. Their parents are kind of legends, after all. Their parents sort of equally have issues with their children, which I think is normal as your kids are growing up and into people you didn’t expect them to be. The first quarter of The Silver Gryphon is very much about kids and their desire to grow up and their parents reluctance to let them do so… or at least their reluctance to let them leave the nest and not worry to bits.
The next chunk of book follows Blade and Tad as they work on surviving the rain forest and the creatures in it. We got to spend a lot of time with them, getting to know them and such during their individual watches. There wasn’t a lot of retreading ground, which was quite nice.
We also got to see what an emergency response from White Gryphon looks like. I don’t really have much to say about it. Pretty much played out like I figured it would. Skan is somewhat predictable in his response to emergencies.
But yeah… I enjoyed The Silver Gryphon much more than I thought I was going to, based on my dislike of The White Gryphon. The story is very different from the other two, but that’s not a bad thing, I think. I’ll probably have more to say about that particular thing in my Series Overview. But yeah… The Silver Gryphon was good. Lol.
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