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Highfire by Eoin Colfer

4.0

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Disclaimer: A physical copy was provided via Harper Collins International in exchange for an honest review. Since, I didn't have access to my copy due to lockdown, I listened to the Audiobook via Storytel App.The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

Highfire is the foray of one of my favourite authors, Eoin Colfer (if you haven’t already Artemis Fowl, I swear; you are missing out on a whole lot!) into the Adult High Fantasy – and when this author means Adult; I swear he means Adult!

With Highfire, Mr. Colfer takes his readers to the Bayous of Louisiana – where resides the only living dragon in the world – Vern; Lord Highfire who hates humans with every fire breath in his ancient body for they destroyed his fellow dragons, so he now lives under the radar with his Netflix and surviving on Absolut Vodka and the only one who knows about his presence is Waxman, another ancient Mogwai, who keeps Vern’s supplies replenished.

On the other side, we have Everett Moreau, hereto known as Squib – a 15 year old who tries really hard to be the good, hardworking boy that his long suffering, single mother Elodie wants him to be; but no matter how hard he tries, he somehow cannot seem to shrug off his petty criminal habits. His only aim is to make sure that he saves his mother from the evil hands of the Constable Regence Hooke; who has been after Elodie, for as long as he can remember!

Everyone is happy; or rather content to move along their paths; never expecting that one night of unfortunate events on the Bayou would land up with Squib becoming a dragon’s human familiar and brining Hooke’s evil intentions of getting Squib out of the way of his “courting” of Elodie (one of them, at least!).


Highfire is an adventurous fun with foul mouth dragon and a good faith young boy who just wants to do the right thing – since I listened to the audiobook (for I didn’t have access to my physical copy during the lockdown!), it took me a while to get used to the narrating style – the southern brogue combined with what I felt like was too many details about the environment and the place around them; but I lived for Vern’s acerbic comments and opinions as well as Squib’s almost adorable loyalty to a Dragon who had threatened to eat him up in their first few meetings!

And I absolutely lived for the way Mr. Colfer ended the book – on a hopeful note; with me hoping there will be a few more adventures of Vern and Squib! Fans of Artemis Fowl will enjoy his foray into a world they haven’t yet experienced from this talented author!



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