Friday, January 20, 2012

Fire Dreams by Mallory Loehr

The three kids are tending a fire when a message appears in the fire.  Sparks form a piece of parchment.  It gives them instructions on how to travel by fire: they need to use copper in the morning, gold in the daylight, and silver at night.  The first time they travel, they end up smack in the middle of Hephaestus's forge.  They also create a new traveling companion, Junior the Child of Fire.  He is described as a golden robot who "looks like C-3PO" and acts a lot like C-3PO as well.  One could pretty much say that in everything but name, Junior is C-3PO.  They meet a Cyclops and go to mount Olympus on their second fire travel.  Read it to see what they do there and where they go with the last travel.

Joe seems to have learned his lesson.  He pauses a lot, as if barely restraining his inner jerk.  He actually listens to people younger than he is.  In fact, I would even say that Joe is no longer the most hate-able person in the story.

So far, the books have been all fun and frolic, but at the end of Fire Dreams, some serious stuff happens.  I can't really say whether this makes the books worse or makes them better.  They were fair as fun and frolic books, and the seriousness is a nice turn, but it could go either way.

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