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Summary: Acorna: Unicorn Girl
Review: This novel is a very good story. It held me enthralled as I paged through the adventures of Acorna and her commrades. I would recommend this book to any McCaffery fan.
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Summary: Tolerable read, but nothing special
Review: It's always disappointing to read a lackluster collaboration between two wonderful authors. In this case, the story moves along reasonably well but Acorna herself is so perfect that she's boring. She is an angelically sweet little girl, the kind that only exists in fiction, without any personality flaws to give her character depth. After a while I began to wish she would throw a temper tantrum, badmouth her 'uncles', anything! The gritty and realistic depiction of the exploited slave children helps rescue the story from the nauseatingly saccharine beginning. If only some of that realism had rubbed off on Acorna herself. This book is worth picking up at the library, but not worth spending hard-earned money on.
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Summary: expected much more
Review: I have read some McCaffrey such as Crystal Singer and it's sequel, and I must say that I found this book an explainable disappointment. This book was recommended to me by a highly respected friend who reads authors such as McKinley and Tolkien. This was one recommendation that should have been checked out from the library. The book starts off well enough by giving us a believable plotline about an orphan alien who happens to be a unicorn child. She is found and raised by asteroid miners. So far so good. Unfortunately for the plot, there are many difficult situations in the book which are too easily resolved. Acorna's amazing little horn can do everything from purifying air and water to deterring the most apt sci-fi writer. Many characters go underdeveloped and I agree with many of the latter reviewers who believe that even Acorna is least developed of them all. If you like foregone conclusions and pre-resolved plots, then this is a good read...If you think the next book will make up for the first's deficiencies, you are sadly mistaken...sorry!
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: I found this book to be not quite up to the standards of Ms. McCaffrey's other books. I was sadly disappointed in Acorna's lack of any true character. She never really experienced true emotion throughout the whole series,. I know Ms. McCaffrey to be a wonderful writer, but I found this particular series lacking.
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Summary: An Original Novel and Good Mix of McCaffrey and Ball
Review: Acorna is different from other sci-fi novels I have read, because not many incorporate the ancient myth of unicorns. The innocence of Acorna made me laugh, for McCaffrey and Ball have created an original and likable character for me to relate to. I am looking forward to reading the two other books that are in print now (Acorna's Quest and Acorna's People). The miners that befriend the baby Acorna and eventually become her "uncles" are humourous and display realistic emotions towards an enigmatic Acorna. The exploits of Acorna on the planet filled with misery touched a cord for me, for IF only someone could exist in the universe today to care about all the "nameless" children. Acorna: The Unicorn Girl is a must-read for McCaffrey and Ball fans, but also for anyone who is touched by an innocence that is not really present in today's harsh world.
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Summary: Worth Reading
Review: Very enjoyable light, easy reading. I'm planning to get the sequel
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Summary: Great premise, but greatly disappointing
Review: This should have been a fabulous book. Ms. McCafferey knows how to write them. But, it should have been called "Everybody Acorna Knows" instead. Most of the book was spent describing the other characters, who were all ordinary people, instead of highlighting the vastly more interesting Acorna. She really had more of a bit part. Very sad. The Pern series went this way too. The first books were awesome, but the later ones droned on about the lives of everyone else except the dragons and their riders. Authors, please! We live with ordinary people every day. We read fantasy books for new experiences. Please concentrate on that!
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Summary: This is the best Anne McCaffrey book that I have ever read !
Review: I have read a lot her books and this one by far is the best
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Summary: not up to dragons, but fun enough to read
Review: Although this book did not come even close to the depth and characterization of The Pern books, it is readable and enjoyable, although perhaps a little too predictable and the end was done much too quickly. It is worth reading the next book in the series however.
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Summary: This wasn't the best book by Anne.
Review: This was more Sci-Fi then Fantasy. It doesn't hold a candle up to the Dragonriders of Pern.
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