Book Report on DragonFire

The book that I chose to read is called DragonFire by Donita K. Paul. The book takes place in the land of Amara, a fictitious world of dragons and magic. The two main characters in the book are Kale and Bardon. Kale is a Dragon Keeper from a slave village, someone who is attached mentally to dragons so that she is able to commune with them. She’s about 19 years of age and married to Bardon. She is a very kind, gentle and compassionate person, but is not afraid to defend herself. Bardon is a knight of Paladin and uses his skill of fighting and clever intellect to lead the forces of Paladin against the evils of Burner Stox, Crim Cropper, and Pretender. He is about 20 years old and married to Kale. I think that the main conflicts in this book are Kale trying to overcome her feelings of awkwardness around her father, who she just barely got to know and Bardon’s conflict with pride.

This is the fourth book in the series and continues to describe Kale Allerion’s journeys in the land of Amara. In the previous books, Kale, Bardon, Dar, Leetu, and others join forces to stop the evil wizard Risto’s plot to take over the world. They find and hatch a Meech dragon, Regidor, and undermine Risto’s own Meech dragon, Gilda, turning her on their side. They end the journey with a final battle, and the wizard Risto is destroyed. Risto’s minions, Burner Stox and Crim Cropper, now become the split up Risto’s armies. While Kale and Bardon are searching for their families, they have to avoid getting captured by the evil minions.

In this book, Kale and Bardon are married, and are reunited with their families. Evil, however, has not yet been vanquished. Bisonbecks, one of the low races which are the typical warriors of Burners Stox and Crim Cropper, are burning and plundering the countyside. Kale and Bardon are called to Paladin’s castle for a meeting and are given tasks for the upcoming battles between Burner Stox, Crim Cropper and Pretender (who is another force of evil). Kale is to be sent with her father, Kemry, a fellow Dragon Keeper, to find and recruit dragons for the battle. Bardon is sent to prepare the rest of Paladin’s forces for the battle against evil. During Kale and Kemry’s search for dragons they meet up with Burner Stox, and through a complete coincidence of circumstances, defeat her, find her dragons and recruit them, sending them to Bardon for the battle with Crim Cropper. Bardon successfully prepares his men for battle and Crim Cropper is defeated, but with much loss for the good guys.

The main theme of the book is the same in all four of the books in the entire series. It is about family. Throughout the entire book there were instances with Kale and her father, learning how to be a productive and close family. There was a part in DragonFire where Kale and her father were both almost killed because they didn’t have any experience working as a family.

I loved the book, DragonFire. This is actually my favorite series of all time. It’s totally fantasy, which is my favorite genre. It also doesn’t do an overkill amount of descriptive detail, which I think would ruin the book. It’s got a really good plot line because the author doesn’t have to make up a new crisis every single time because she slowly draws out the existing crisis through the series. I think that the only way anyone could not like DragonFire is if they absolutely despised fantasy literature.