The Fire Within The book The Fire WIthin, written by Chris D’lacey is about David Rain a college student who needs a new place to live, he starts looking for a cheap place to live and finds Elizabeth and Lucy Pennykettle, they happen to be renting out a spare bedroom. He goes to the house to investigate, only to find that it is full of pottery dragons. The residents of the house claim that the dragons are alive and treat them as such, David begins to think that they are insane but he doesn’t care, he gets a cheap place to live. Elizabeth offers David a custom made dragon based off of his personality, he accepts the dragon and names it Gadzooks, he is later surprised by lucy telling him that he can speak to the dragon if he thinks about it when he needs to know something, surprised to find out that this is in fact true he begins to write a book with inspiration from Gadzooks so he can give it to Lucy as a birthday present, the book is based off of squirrels something that Lucy likes just as much as dragons, The story is titled Snigger and the Nut Beast it is about 2 squirrels one named Snigger the other named Conker as he gets more enthralled in the story he notices that what he writes down becomes true and finds out that their are real squirrels in danger and he tries to help them. He succeeds and the book ends. …show more content…
One of the things that makes this book so great are the characters, the characters are bizarre and interesting while still seeming real and relatable.The characters are also really interesting because of their backstories in particular Liz’s backstory which we know almost nothing