Hi! I'm Andrea, the main admin on the site! I'm a homeschool mom, pastor's wife, kidmin specialist, book lover, story teller, and probably just about the biggest Wingfeather fan you'll ever meet! I love border collies, gardening, Wyoming, and cats. And Jesus. I really love Jesus! (And can I just say, Wingfeather has one of the most beautiful pictures of the gospel I've ever seen? I think that's why I love it so much.)

I first discovered Wingfeather at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021. One of my favorite authors recommended it, and when my brother asked what my kids wanted for Christmas, of course I told him they wanted the book I wanted to read! 😂 (Yes, this is something that parents do sometimes!) He bought my daughter the first book, and one evening soon after Christmas I started looking through it. I assured my daughter that I wouldn't read all the way through her brand new book before she got the chance; I just wanted to read the beginning.

Oops. Yeah, I read the whole thing that night. To make it up to her, I promised her that I wouldn't read the rest of the series without her. But I couldn't wait, so I borrowed the audiobooks from the library. Listening isn't exactly the same as reading! 😉 Somehow the library had each audiobook available for me almost as soon as I was ready for it.

Book 1 was delightful! Basic, standard, middle grade Christian fantasy fare. There was nothing super deep about it, but the characters prayed to the Maker sometimes. Eh, yeah, I guess it's a Christian book, I figured.

Then book 2 got dark. Really, really dark. Almost demonic. Suddenly I wasn't sure I wanted my kids reading these books. I didn't know anything about the author, and I didn't know where he was going with this. I didn't know that he was also a singer/songwriter with some of the most beautiful, theologically rich, doctrinally sound songs I'd ever heard of. So, yeah. My kids definitely weren't getting these books before I finished with them.

Book 3 was refreshing! The story was really good, and it was nowhere near as creepy as book 2. I understood, and appreciated, that the author wanted to be sure that evil was clearly portrayed as evil, but I still wished he had shown it differently in book two. Not less evil, necessarily, but just different.

Then I finished book 4. I was stunned. There was so much spiritual depth throughout the whole series that I had completely missed! Now I understood why the author had to make it so creepy and in the way that he did! He had a beautiful message that could not have been so clearly portrayed any other way! This wasn't just a book with Christian elements; from the very beginning it was a story of God's plan of redemption!

Anyway, I ended up buying the whole series. And the audiobooks. And the first editions. And the merch. And investing in the show. And getting all my friends hooked on the series. And the next thing I knew, I was put in charge of a fan site! 😂

Picture of me by Janna. :)