Dark Fire
core novel 2009 The Last Dragon Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.10 (8,934 ratings, collected 2026-10-31) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781846169540 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The dragon elders give David Rain a task that will cost the life of a dragon he loves: he must destroy a spark of dark fire before it does harm. In Wayward Crescent, Arthur, Lucy and Liz travel to meet a man named Rupert Steiner after a clue points to Scuffenbury, a burial barrow said to hold a dragon. At home, the Pennykettles' neighbour Henry Bacon dies and leaves a will that affects David, Zanna and the Pennykettles. Meanwhile the sibyl Gwilanna is hunting for the dark fire and a piece of obsidian, and a new Dragon Age is beginning, with darklings and dragons both on the move.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Last Dragon Chronicles
- Series: The Last Dragon Chronicles core; position 5 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Chris d'Lacey
Notes
- From the series record (The Last Dragon Chronicles): Seven middle-grade fantasy novels following David Rain, the Pennykettle family and their living clay dragons.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Last Dragon Chronicles: position 5 of 7: previous The Fire Eternal (2007) · next Fire World (2011)
Sources
- Wikipedia: The Last Dragon Chronicles
- FictionDB series page
- Wikipedia: Dark Fire (The Last Dragon Chronicles)
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