Essay On Down In Flames

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Down in Flames started out with an attracted stranger stalking the heroine, Bryn. This incident then took on a chain of effects, Bryn found out she is a dragon-shifter, but here is the catch, she is one of a kind, a hybrid of Blue and Red dragon. As you can guess from the description, Blue-ice, Red-fire (pretty simple and straight forward). Both of her parents are exiled from the Dragons society, because you aren't allow to crossbreed with another kind of dragon-shifter (I know, how backward is this). If that wasn't enough for Bryn, there are more bad news, Bryn have to attend the Dragon school to "learn" the proper way of being a dragon. However, Bryn's unique existent will be a threat to those who control and held the traditions dearly, and some would see it as an opportunity to use Bryn to stir up a revolution.

The way the story flows in Down in Flames are quite straight forward,
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When Bryn first learned she is a dragon-shifter, her parents didn't wait around but quickly jump start to teach her how to use her magic (she have two, fire and ice), then at the same night, her parent also teach her how to shift to her dragon form. All these turned out to be quite easy for Bryn, I somehow wish it was more of a challenge, since Bryn is after all still very new to her dragon side.

Throughout the book we learn a little by little about how the Dragons lives, which were quite ridiculous. Not only Dragons of different breeds aren't allow to marry outside of their own, the head of the Dragons arrange marriage for each of the young Dragons while they are still attending school ( and doesn't give you why and how they choose). What's even more ridiculous is, if the dragon pairs aren't in love with each other (happens often), the husband will have a mistress (they called it being a sponsor) with the wife's blessing.->say what?!

->So yeah, I can see why the Dragons are in need of

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