The Fire Within: Book 1

Chris d'Lacey

Jan 2011 · The Last Dragon Chronicles Book 1 · Sold by Orchard Books

About this ebook

'David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings, where all you got were spiders and the occasional mouse. "It's perfect," he said.'

When David arrives at Wayward Crescent he has no idea what lurks inside the Pennykettle house. Only when he's given his own special dragon does he begin to unlock their mysterious secrets, and to discover the fire within...

Ratings and reviews

I read this book when I was in high school and I regretted it, the entire plot of the first book was about a squirrel that the neighbor wanted to kill and the landlord's daughter wanted to keep/save. Throughout the entire book I gave it the benefit of the doubt that I would get "see" dragons, but no, that whole plot was about that damn squirrel! The only dragons were the clay dragons the landlord made in her freetime, there were a couple very subtle hints that the dragons were real but those moments could've been done by hallucinations caused by drugs, stress or brain damage. Again, I gave it a chance and thought the big reveal would be at the end, but there wasn't any reveal, that. Damn. Squirrel. was the entire plot of this entire book! I didn't even want to give the other books a chance, I don't have time to waste reading a book about saving strays with clay dragons as a subplot. This book was one big waste of time, never again!

Love this book read it as a kid

About the author

Chris d'Lacey was born in Malta. However, he has lived the majority of his life in Leicester. After graduating from York University with a biology degree, he went to Leicester University where he has worked for the past twenty-two years as a research scientist. Chris never had plans to become a writer - his teenage wish was to become a famous songwriter! Chris has published books with Orchard Books, Transworld, Scholastic and Egmont. His first children`s book Fly, Cherokee, Fly was highly commended for the 1999 Carnegie Medal. However, Chris claims his own favourite is The Fire Within which took him fifteen years to write and is a mixture of stories, one of which he was writing for his wife, Jay, as a surprise present. Chris lives with Jay in Leicester. He is a keen Leicester City fan and has ambitions to visit the Arctic, fly in a space shuttle, own a racehorse, have a record on Top of the Pops and beat his five-year-old nephew on the Playstation!