false 65154859 1193600 6001758 0575085118 9780575085114 583 <![CDATA[Fire]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236262766m/6001758.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1236262766s/6001758.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6001758.Fire 4.20 1729 Fire, Graceling's prequel-ish companion book, takes place across the mountains to the east of the seven kingdoms, in a rocky, war-torn land called the Dells.

Beautiful creatures called monsters live in the Dells. Monsters have the shape of normal animals: mountain lions, dragonflies, horses, fish. But the hair or scales or feathers of monsters are gorgeously colored-- fuchsia, turquoise, sparkly bronze, iridescent green-- and their minds have the power to control the minds of humans.

Seventeen-year-old Fire is the last remaining human-shaped monster in the Dells. Gorgeously monstrous in body and mind but with a human appreciation of right and wrong, she is hated and mistrusted by just about everyone, and this book is her story.

Wondering what makes it a companion book/prequel? Fire takes place 30-some years before Graceling and has one cross-over character with Graceling, a small boy with strange two-colored eyes who comes from no-one-knows-where, and who has a peculiar ability that Graceling readers will find familiar and disturbing...]]> 1373880 4.18 8470 2718 2009 0 0 false Mon Jul 27 12:41:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 12:43:15 -0700 2009