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Summary: Good start to a unique triolgy
Review: A wonderful short fantasy novel featuring no human characters-a difficult trick for an author. This first novel in a trilogy about unicorns straddles animal fables like _Watership Down_ and _Redwall_ with heroic high fantasy. The fantasy plotline is molded on the classic 'destined hero' structure, wherein a juvenile of royal birth becomes aware that he/she will lead the people in a preordained battle against great foes. Pierce melds this story with the 'search for better grazing land' from animal fables, and presto! Nifty fantasy trip with familiar fantastic beasts used in new ways. Aside from unicorns, we also meet wyverns, gryphons, and fauns. Most of the novel's effectiveness comes from Pierce's skill describing this ancient pastoral land, although she does pull out a surprising plot twist at the end that shed new light on the entire story. The books ends with great promise for the future installments, and they're worth it-especially the finale, _Son of the Summer Stars_.
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Summary: This was the most spectacular book I can remember as a kid.
Review: Birth of the Firebringer has drawn me back time and again until finally thanks to Amazon I can pick up where I left off and find the whole trilogy. A must have excellent reading for young and old.
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Summary: Greatest Unicorn Book ever
Review: How can I describe this book? It's a coming of age tale about the prince to be and his father, who might just be a prophisised warrior. It's a tale of Jan and his friend Dagg, facing hardships, and the warrior mare Tek. It's a story about finding your own way, becoming your own person and starting to learn about the world and the way it works. All of these and morewould accurately describe the Firebringer Trilogy, so sadly out of print. I urge you to look for it. You won't be disappointed. Skywater, vice-president of the Firebringer Fan Club.
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Summary: Deasil, steadily deasil.....
Review: I bought this book when I was 7 years old, and it has been my favorite ever since. I had no idea there were sequels until coming online 3 years ago, and since then, I've been taking part in the great dance of trying to find them. Even without ever reading "Dark Moon" and "Son of Summer Stars", I would say this is a superb standalone legend. I look forward to the day they are all reprinted for a new generation of dreamers and doers. Judging that the "Darkangel" trilogy, in my opinion a far less well-thought-out 'practice' work for "Birth of the Firebringer", has been reprinted, these books must be reprinted as well. If you can find it, read the first adventure of Aljan the Dark Moon, Korr his sire, Telkella, Dag, the Free People, and all those under the watchful gaze of Almharat. It's been on my summer reading list for over half my life, it never gets old.
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Summary: If You can find it, you should read it.
Review: I first read the sequal and third book at my school library, not to long ago and I was franticly searching for the first. There were so meny things Pierce had offhandidly talked about in the other two books that I knew I had to find The Birth. I was fortunet enough to find it in a second hand bookstore(who would get rid of such a great book?). So, for all thos people who love fantasy, and Unicorns, read this book(if you can find it).-Eli@
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Summary: Aljan Lover
Review: I first read this book when I was 11 or 12. I have been absolutely insane about it ever since. I searched for the other books in the series for years, and judging by the price of the first editions, I'm not the only one who loved this book. I am thrilled that the book is being reprinted and the next two books in the series are on the way to my house now. (...) Pierce draws you into this world of unicorns and makes them tangible. Beware though, if your child gets hold of this book, they may become obsessed, but if they become obsessed about any book, this is the one.
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Summary: The story of the unicorns was incredible and unforgetable.
Review: I found the book at my library when I was in Jr. High (about ten years ago) and read it several times before returning it. Time passed but I could never forget the enchanting story of Aljan and the unicorn herd and their fight against the wyverns. I finally found the book again during the past year and read it again and it was better than I remembered. I also discovered the sequels to the original and I was overjoyed and immediately read them. I was delighted with them as well. Meredith Pierce knows unicorns. She makes them more than just a fairy tale and I thank her for the joy the books brought to me as a child and as an adult.
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Summary: Unicorn Wonders
Review: I found this book when I was twelve in my public library, and saw it was about unicorns and checked it out that second. As I read it, I got more and more involved. Aljan and his friends make wonderful characters we can almost all relate to. They are so human-like with great emotion that after a while you forget you are reading about unicorns. This book is a pure wonder for anyone anywhere.
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Summary: Unexpected Greatness
Review: I had read the Darkangel trilogy and LOVED it so I looked for more of her books and found the Firebringer trilogy. At first, when I read the back of the book, I though "Yah right", a unicorn. I thought she was getting a bit too wierd but when I started to read I knew that it was going to be good. I STRONGLY suggest you read it, Pierce creates a civillization that seems more real then you would think possible.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: I have trouble finding the words to describe the Firebringer Trilogy. I was a little girl when I found a little paperback used novel with a unicorn on the cover. It is one of the best bildungsroman novels I have ever read. I searched high and low for the sequels and was lucky enough to find them. You must not miss this novel. The ceremony, the brilliance, the myths, the legend of the Firebringer. It was truly breathtaking.
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