Acorna
The Unicorn Girl
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4.4 • 54 Ratings
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- $0.99
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Publisher Description
"Something's Alive In There!"
She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free.
But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own. . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The vein of invention McCaffrey worked so effectively in her Pern series seems to have been exhausted. Collaborating again with Ball (after Partnership), McCaffrey opens promisingly in the far future with charming doomed unicorn beings who seal their infant into a survival pod, hoping someone will save her after they choose to die in space rather than in a grisly Khlevii torture cell. After three grungy Terran bachelor asteroid miners find the silver-curled, long-faced baby and name her "Acorna" for the strange protuberance growing from her forehead, the story gallops into a gulch of sentimentality. Acorna's horn can detect poisons and nuzzle sick and wounded humans back to health, so she becomes the savior of Kezdet, a Dickensian planet full of abused children slaving in mines, match factories and brothels. The authors stall in getting their major theme of exploited children under way, and they unconvincingly muddle it with precious goings-on among Acorna's three adopted miner dads, sentimentalized little victims, shady planetside entrepreneurs and a stock villain. Cut the "a"s from the title and what's left sums up this novel perfectly.
Customer Reviews
You’ll love them! That is all.
Just incredible! These books are my happiest of happy places. I weep for joy reading about the life aboard these spaceships! I hope our future is at least half this bright!
Great read
If you like sci-fi with a great humanitarian twist this is an awesome book. This storyline is unique, well developed, and interesting. The characters are well developed and all play a vital role in portraying Acorna story, as well as their own.
Just...Amazing.
This book, and all the other Acorna books, is and are, wonderful! Through time, through space, with chime and grace! Determined, loving, fascinating. A through description of Acorna and these books. Adore them. My #2 favorite book series! (Sorry, your still in competition with Warriorcats! XD)