Buried Fire
by Jonathan Stroud
i stumbled upon this book at a bargain book store and bought this in the instant i saw who the author of the book is. from the same author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, and being a great series i want to try his other works.
the book is about a buried dragon, thus i think the title, that from time to time reaches out its thought. being banished under the earth for so long, its distance between the surface had diminished allowing its thought out in the open. all those who get soaked by the dragon's thought are endowed by four gifts.
the main character happens to get soaked with the dragon's thought for quite a long time making his gifts quite powerful. he then have to decide on how to use his gifts.
the book somewhat disappointed me as the pacing is really slow and i hardly able to finish this book. if not for bit of interesting things thrown at random interval of pages, i would not be able to reach the climax part of the book, which happened so late that the story wrapped up so fast.
still, i enjoyed the last part of the book even though i think the first half of the book could have been good if the gifts have been discussed and have played major part in it.
rating: 2.5/5 wyrm
