reading report-February Darkfire Review

The book can be hard to understand sometimes.

I LOVE dragons:) 

I am now doing my February reading report on the book Dark Fire by Chris D' Lacey and it was 597 pages. I really enjoyed this book.

The book begins with a girl named Lucy writing a journal about her life. She writes how she is a descendant of Gawain, a dragon, and she writes about her life. How her family have fought these mysterious beings called the "Ix" which exist in human thought. The story goes on to Lucy and the family going on a trip and Lucy is very terrified because she does not know who she really is. This is because she is a descendant of a dragon and she was born from an egg supposedly. I would LOVE to be a descendant of a dragon and actually be one.

When they get home they talk about a guy named David. He was an old tenant that used to live in the house but had mysteriously disappeared in the Arctic. Liz, who is Lucy's mother, assures her that everyone goes through this phase in their life. Arthur, Liz's husband and Lucy's father, tells how David never really existed in the first place because he is a fain and was brought into the world thanks to Arthur writing his life story. The fain are the good guys and they live in human thought. I am still confused about the Ix and fain and I have read all the books.

Zanna, a girl living with Liz, and her daughter Alexa are upstairs and Alexa is getting a bath. Zanna hears a noise and sees David down stairs and gets mad. The reason was because David had come back out of nowhere and Zanna is angry because David just came out of nowhere after being gone for five years and Zanna was mad how David did not raise his girl or be their for them. What could David do about being gone for so long?

Later on Zanna and Alexa are on their way to Zanna's shop when they are mysteriously attacked by ravens. Zanna is saved by Tam Farell, a friend, who once was a reporter who was the first one to tell Zanna how David does not exist in the third or fourth book. Tam Farell helps Zanna back to Liz's house and they head in to talk with Liz and Agatha, Henry Bacon's sister and Henry had died earlier, Agatha teaches Zanna some magic because Agatha is a sibly or magic user. I was pretty impressed when I learned Agatha was a Sibly

 David then goes to Africa to talk with Sophie,his first girlfriend, but, did not get there fast enough because when he arrived a building exloded and Sophie was killed.since she was near it. David then finds Sophie's dragon is the same way. David tells Liz what happened in Africa and is shocked about what happened to Sophie and about how Sophie's dragon Grace shed her fire tear or life esscence. They perform a ritual that revives Grace and trhen Dark Fire, the most dangerous substance, comes out and goes into Liz who passes out. I am amazed at all the things that have happened to Liz in every book.

David then tells Lucy and Tam to go to Scuffenbury in order to see if a dragon and unicorn are there as arumor says. Lucy and Tam arrive in Scuffenbury and stay at this inn. They meet an old lady named Ms.Gree and a girl named Hannah who shows them around. I was suspicious of Ms.Gree when I first heard about her.

The story goes to David and Zanna. Zanna tells David how nothing seems to be workingg to cure Liz. David tells Zanna how the baby is manipulating the Dark Fire somehow. I don't understand how a baby can handle the most dangerous thing in the universe.

The story goes to Tam and Lucy and what had happened with them. Lucy had this nightmare where a raven had Gwillain's, Lucy's grandma, face. Tam appeared in the room to see if things are alright and then Ms.Gree walks by and goes to the bathroom. Ms.Gree must be talking with the Ix because that is who I think she could have talked to. Lucy and Tam go to the hill Hannah had talked about one time. I learned Ms.Gree was a sibly when Tam and Lucy took their first visit to the hill where Ms.Gree moved a bunch of rocks with magic. Tam and Lucy are later took into a secret tunnel by Hannah in order to awaken the dragon Gwaine.
The trip did not turn out well because Ms.Gree shows up and separates Tam and Lucy. Ms.Gree dies because some celling collapsed and dragon urine fell on Ms.Gree and killed her. I learned dragon urine has no effect on descendants of Gwain. The dragon Gwaine awakens and she looks at Lucy with the intention of killing. I was shocked to learn about Gwain's mother Gwaine.

The story goes to David and Zanna and they talk about what will happen when the dragon awakens. They realize Lucy has red hair and this is bad because many years ago a with with red hair messsed with Gwaine and she never found the witch. David and Zanna are about to leave when Agatha Bacon comes to the door. Zanna is relieved to have someone watch over Liz with Arthur. Agatha was actually Gwillan in disguise and she goes into Liz's room where she is asleep. Arthur tries to stop her but uses magic and stops Arthur in his tracks. Gwillan tells how she  can get rid of the Dark Fire and it seemed to backfire. I think the reason Gwillan died was because the Dark Fire was just too dangerous to control. Serves Gwillan right for all the trouble she had caused for everyone.

Lucy manages to survive the dragon Gwaine's wrath by singing a song and awakens the unicorn. David and Zanna arrive later and someting bad happens. A darkling is born from a raven and attacks everyone. The darklings put up a good fight but do not kill G'lant and Gwaine. Gwaine sends the Ix to the center of the earth with her and destroys  them and gets revenge for her lost sons. Alexa does a strange thing and teleports everyone to a new world. The book ends with "In the last dragon chronicles: And in the beginning was the word and the word of Gadzooks, David's dragon, was "sometimes". I wonder where everyone went?

I would recommend this book to high school boys and girls because even thought a lot of things are confusing in this book it really has those really tense moments where there is pure tension. I would also recommend this book for dragon lovers.