Reviews

The Fire Ascending by Chris d'Lacey

amdame1's review against another edition

3.0

The final book in the “Last Dragon Chronicles” series. Easily readable even without having read the other books in the series. The author does a really nice job of giving the readers necessary details without going into great detail about the back story. In this story, there is the final battle between dragons and darklings, with lots of timeline travel. Fans of the series will not be disappointed.

annikatighe's review against another edition

3.0

This is the conclusion to the Last Dragon Chronicles. The world building is definitely complicated and sometimes hard to keep track of but I still haven't read anything like it. One thing that is unique about the way the books are written is that D'Lacy seems to explain the thoughts he has about the story itself through the character David who he has stated is practically him in fictional form. I do like this book but some parts of it just jibed with me a little. This book goes completely off the rails from the first five books in the series and it does not portray the same tone in my opinion. It goes a lot deeper into the legend story which is a lot of fun. You learn a lot more about Gwilanna as well, which was something that made the book for me. If I could rewrite the series, the only problem I really have with it is again the background of the characters. I wish we had more of that. But Chris D'Lacy is still one of my favorite authors to date and I will probably continue to reread this series throughout my life.

nicholasbobbitt1997's review against another edition

1.0

There is no structure to this series. I cannot understand why I enjoyed it enough to keep buying them when I was younger.

jomarchkinnie's review against another edition

5.0

Although the series gradually became more confusing, the last book was amazing. I was crying in the middle of language arts class because of it.

fleur99's review against another edition

3.0

I loved this series a lot but this ending was a bit of a let down. I have been told by numerous people to read the whole series in order (I don't normally) so I did but I still didn't really understand all if it. It seems to have been written the way it was to make Fireworld make sense but all the chopping and changing time lines just confuses it. I loved the earlier books and,by itself, Fireworld but this book just fell a little flat. I was more confused by this than the Lord of the rings which is saying something. I also thought that by including physics and creation theories at such it detracted from the dragons. The pennykettle dragons are among the best 'Earth' dragons I have read about I love how they each have their own personality, their spark, but they don't feature as much in this book which is a shame. I would have liked to have rated it higher but unfortunately I can't.

northwyrm's review against another edition

challenging fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

This is the last book in The Last Dragon Chronicles, and it was weirdly designed as a book for people new to the series to start reading, so it introduces a new cast of characters. These last two books, Fire World and The Fire Ascending, are set in different universes to books 1-5, The Fire Within through to Dark Fire. The previous installments were contemporary fantasy, this one is high fantasy. Books 1-6 were in third person, The Fire Ascending (7) is in first person.
It is a bizarre and confusing book, with possibly one of the worst endings to a series I have ever read. If you are reading reviews to work out if you want to read the series, I recommend the first five books, then just do not read the last two installments and take the cliffhanger ending at the end of Dark Fire - it's still messy and mysterious, but not as messy as The Fire Ascending.