Lila wants to be a firework maker just like her father, but before she can even start she has to make a hazardous, life-threatening journey to the den of the evil Fire-Fiend, battling her way through strange lands and nightmarish scenarios with elephants and pirates and strange beasts a-plenty tempting her from her path.
So what's the story: Lila is the daughter of a firework maker, and has been brought up concocting her own special kinds of fireworks and helping her father. She is quite happy with this life, at least until the day when she realises that her father wants her to grow up and get married, and her father realises she wants to become a firework maker like him. Soon after, Lila sets off to get Royal Sulpher from Razvani the Fire Fiend, closely followed by her friend, the slave of the emperor's white elephant, and Hamlet - the white elephant himself - because she doesn't know one crucial fact: that she needs protection from the Fire-Fiend's flames, or she won't survive to get the Sulpher at all.
Reaction Shot: I know I'm too old for this book, but hey, someone brought it back to the library, so I figured I might as well read it. I'm glad I did read it though - it was warm and fuzzy predictability all over, funny side characters and situations, and happy endings all round. It's as short and shallow as expected, your average happy-ever-after fairytale, but it's not a bad read by any means.
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