Sarah is a sweet young girl who has been brought up by her father alone on their farm since their mother died. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. The dragon is a smaller blue rather than the traditional larger reds, though even the reds are now scarce.

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It also delivers a believable world where dragons can talk and their co-existence with humans, though fraught with misunderstanding and mistrust, is readily imagined. Overall an enjoyable story with an interesting world but not really for me and possibly would be a better movie than a book. The book might be set in a fantasy world but the racism and bigotry of the 50s are certainly present and the locals don’t like a Blue being close by, he could be a Russian spy.Yeah, there's nothing more to say except I never wanted to put this book down and now I love it, the end. Where planning just showed you what a fool you were to think you had any say over what your life would be. We can also see how LGBTQ people were really badly treated just for being themselves and this still happens in some places unfortunately.

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In ‘Burn’ stoorden de verschillende verhaallijnen en het korte/korte/langere/lange/korte me op den duur. Juist omdat dit verhaal zich in de jaren vijftig afspeelt, en Patrick Ness de Koude Oorlog als spanningselement in het verhaal meeneemt, ben ik verloren gelopen. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.This story was all over the place, concentrating too often on anyone but the main characters, all the characters forced into acting like puppets for the author to stage his over the top train wreck of a story. He is being sent on a mission that is of vital importance to the cult but there are FBI agents trying to stop him achieving his goal. Alongside the fantasy elements like dragons, it also explores racism and homophobia in the 50s which Patrick Ness seems to have handled well.

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I am totally willing to forgive a less great plot if the characters are amazing (you might have seen a few of those 5 star reviews where I do admit the plot isn't even that good. When the lights of the universe went out one day, standing over the plug, having pulled it despite all warnings, would be a man like Deputy Kelby. La stessa profezia che nel frattempo spinge il giovane Malcolm, della setta dei Credenti - coloro che venerano i draghi - a partire, inseguito da due agenti dell'FBI, per una missione misteriosa, dove conoscerà da vicino l'amore.It became impossible to understand any of it with the author throwing away restraint and throwing anything and everything he had ever imagined into the mix, trying to shock the reader rather than appeal to any reason or to the heart.

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Overall I believe the representation was good but bear in mind that I'm not an OwnVoices reviewer when it comes to the POC characters.

On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm. The time period is used to highlight many social issues such as racism which Sarah and her friend Jason experience primarily at the hands of the towns deputy sheriff.