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Summary: Wonderful book, best in the series, deserves 100 stars!
Review: Once I picked up the first book in this series, I couldn't put it down. I was a matter of days before I got the third one. This is a fabulous sequel to "The Birth of the Firebringer" and "Dark Moon". The story of how Jan finally drove the secret out of his father, Korr, and how he discovers his and Tek's true identity is shocking. It left me thinking for months. This is truly the best book I have ever read, and a worthy sequel to the previous books.
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Summary: The best of the three Firebringer novels!
Review: The trilogy ends on the best book, wherein the unicorns finally take the war to the wyverns in an all-out battle to reclaim their ancestral lands, and Jan at last confronts his father and the secret of his birth, and Tek's parentage finally come to light. The excitement stays at a high level, even though Pierce makes the odd move of having Jan observe most of the action through a seeing pool shown to him by a dragon. Tek rises now to become the co-hero of the series, and she actually does more in the story than Jan does. Two problems do bother the book and keep it from being an absolute masterpiece. First, the two "surprise" revelations aren't surprising at all. Pierce draws out the suspense without realizing that most readers have figured it out many chapters ago with all her heavy-handed foreshadowing. Second, Pierce relies too much on descriptive phrases rather than proper names to identify characters: 'pied mare' instead of Tek, 'amber filly' instead of Lell. This reached occasionally aggravating levels. Meredith, it is okay to use the name more than once in the same paragraph!Nonetheless, this is a wonderful, great fantasy for all-ages, and a terrific finale to an excellent series.
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Summary: A Good Conclusion
Review: This book brings us back to the magic and adventure present in the first novel, but missed in the second. Aljan is back in his proper settings and rallying his people to retake the Hallow Hills. Unfortunately, mad Korr has fled the vale and is wreaking havoc on Jan's newly wrought alliances. Jan tracks the mad king down to learn his terrible secret. However, we the readers learn that the terrible secret isn't so terrible and you sit there thinking 'uh, hello Jan. Figure it out already!' That is the reason I've given this book four stars rather than five. Jan's just a little slow figuring things out even though we've been given plenty of clues. But this is a wonderful conclusion and I'm glad that after the second book Pierce managed to recapture the feeling of the first.
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Summary: "Foaled at moondark & and sired by the Summer Stars"
Review: This, the last book in Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy, is as spellbinding as the title suggests. The final part of Aljan's quest to reclaim the Hallow Hill for his people is awe-inspiring, with a stunning conclusion & many twists and turns as Aljan learns & attempts to come to terms with his partner Tek's origins and as the thread as of the unicorns intriguing history are intricately drawn together. The book, like its other 2 prequels is filled with legend, fantasy, magic & adventure and unforgettable characters such as Calydor, the star-strewn unicorn seer. The books of the trilogy are hard to find (it took me 3 years) and are well the effort & deserve much more recognition that they currently receive ... I am convinced that a film of this excellent trilogy is long overdue
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