DEAR Reader
The Fire Within
By: Chris D’Lacey
- The Fire Within
The Fire Within is the first book in this incredible series. This book was amazing to me because you could never tell what was coming up next in the story. The story always had something interesting happening and some how somehow it all ended up being about the same thing. Dragons!
The story makes you really use your imagination and also the author doesn’t have pictures in it so you can imagine the things the way you want it. Plus the story has good description.
The book had all the things that you would like in tale with dragons. You only learn some stuff in between each book, which I think is great idea, so then you’ll want to read more.
You know how people think like dragons would capture the princess and then be slayed by a knight, well this book is so much different than that. Dragons in this story have a spark, it’s like a burning fire that keeps them alive, metaphorically speaking. The only way to take the tear from them is if they shed it, and they only shed it if you don’t believe in them or don’t love them.
The reason that the dragons get fire is because, long ago the Earth was ruled by dragons, they lived without the threat of man killing them. They had baby dragons every 97 years, so image how many babies you’d get in a century. When man came to Earth they hunted the dragons! After years of war 12 dragons were left. They retreated so they didn’t have to fight.
They finally flew to isolated places so they die without interruption. All the dragons died, except one still lived, his name was Gawain. People found and tried to kill him, but he thrived, until he was to old to fight. One day he went to the lake, and the people that were there fled in terror, except a little girl.
The dragon roared but the girl wouldn’t leave, so he flew away, but as he flew away, a single scale came of his body.
The girl took the scale to a person called a sibyl, who wanted the scale, and if she got it, she would tell the girl how to save the dragon.
The rest you’ll have to find out in the book.
I say this book has all the things that a good book needs, and I hope you will consider this book.
November 8th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Hi Greyson,
That sounds like a good book! How many other books are in the series? I’ll try and track a copy down at the Library!
Eric.