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Highfire
by Eoin Colfer
FULL REVIEW AVAILABLE HERE ON 23.10.19
I can get on with earning an honest buck. Ain't nothing illegal about fetching groceries for a dragon.
Rating: 5 stars.
Highfire is a 4 star story, with 5 star characters by a 10 star author. It's coming out on the 28th January 2020, and it's an insta-buy from me.
Vern is the last dragon. Now he's living the quiet life, tucked away in a cabin in the Bayou with vodka, Flashdance and human-free peace and quiet. Squib Moreau is a juvenile troublemaker gone straight-ish, trying to stay on the right side of the law and working two, soon to be three, jobs to take care of his mother. Regence Hooke has big ambitions, to create an illegal firearms pipeline and to win over Squib's mother but when Squib catches him in the act of killing a witness, he thinks he'll kill two birds with one stone by getting Squib out of his way for good. But Squib is a dragon's familiar these days, and Hooke is about to find out that Vern doesn't take kindly to his familiar being kidnapped when an all-out war breaks out in the Bayou between bent cops and a dragon who's sick of humans and all their shit.
The writing is just so... funny. The text is light-hearted and fast-paced, littered with cultural references and in all honesty, stupid the whole way through. But that's good-stupid, not bad-stupid. It's crude, and definitely an adult novel but NA and older YA would probably enjoy it too. Your mileage may vary, but I don't think this was ever to the point where I would call it inappropriate.
Vern and Squib, supported by Waxman, versus Hooke made for a wacky as hell cast. Vern defies all expectations for an ancient dragon, least of all the last dragon. Hunting, pillaging and kidnapping damsels? Nah, Vern likes vodka martinis, Flashdance and more vodka martinis. Waxman's been working with (and that's with, not for) Vern for a long time, but it's time for him to take a long-term nap in dragon dung, so he ropes Squib Moreau into taking over as Vern's familiar while he's gone. Vern doesn't like Squib, at first, but that's traditional for this found family shtick, and there is a genuinely heartwarming scene amongst all the comedy when Vern realises that he's gotten attached to the kid after centuries of swearing off humans altogether. As a villain, Hooke is legitimately brilliant. He's awful, crude and cruel and heartless, but he's also genuinely interesting and fleshed out.
I can get on with earning an honest buck. Ain't nothing illegal about fetching groceries for a dragon.
Rating: 5 stars.
Highfire is a 4 star story, with 5 star characters by a 10 star author. It's coming out on the 28th January 2020, and it's an insta-buy from me.
Vern is the last dragon. Now he's living the quiet life, tucked away in a cabin in the Bayou with vodka, Flashdance and human-free peace and quiet. Squib Moreau is a juvenile troublemaker gone straight-ish, trying to stay on the right side of the law and working two, soon to be three, jobs to take care of his mother. Regence Hooke has big ambitions, to create an illegal firearms pipeline and to win over Squib's mother but when Squib catches him in the act of killing a witness, he thinks he'll kill two birds with one stone by getting Squib out of his way for good. But Squib is a dragon's familiar these days, and Hooke is about to find out that Vern doesn't take kindly to his familiar being kidnapped when an all-out war breaks out in the Bayou between bent cops and a dragon who's sick of humans and all their shit.
The writing is just so... funny. The text is light-hearted and fast-paced, littered with cultural references and in all honesty, stupid the whole way through. But that's good-stupid, not bad-stupid. It's crude, and definitely an adult novel but NA and older YA would probably enjoy it too. Your mileage may vary, but I don't think this was ever to the point where I would call it inappropriate.
Vern and Squib, supported by Waxman, versus Hooke made for a wacky as hell cast. Vern defies all expectations for an ancient dragon, least of all the last dragon. Hunting, pillaging and kidnapping damsels? Nah, Vern likes vodka martinis, Flashdance and more vodka martinis. Waxman's been working with (and that's with, not for) Vern for a long time, but it's time for him to take a long-term nap in dragon dung, so he ropes Squib Moreau into taking over as Vern's familiar while he's gone. Vern doesn't like Squib, at first, but that's traditional for this found family shtick, and there is a genuinely heartwarming scene amongst all the comedy when Vern realises that he's gotten attached to the kid after centuries of swearing off humans altogether. As a villain, Hooke is legitimately brilliant. He's awful, crude and cruel and heartless, but he's also genuinely interesting and fleshed out.