Acorna by Anne McCaffrey

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Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (Acorna #1)

Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 1997
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Type: Fiction, Fantasy ~ Library Book
Pages: 400
Read: 11/23/2013
Rating: Liked it ♥♡

Recently I watched a review for “The Last Unicorn”, it was based on a book, however when I went looking for the book I couldn’t find it. I found this book however. Having read all of the “Dragonriders of Pern” series by Anne McCaffrey I decided to give this series a try.

This was an enjoyable book. It seemed to lack somewhat in characterization and plot. My memories of Dragonriders are a little fuzzy as it was several years ago I read them, but it seems they were much better written. These books boil down to good vs evil. The good being Acorna and her friends, the evil practically everyone else. I say practically everyone because not everyone is evil, but it seems that everyone who is not a friend of Acorna, if they are not evil, they end up becoming her friends.

The story starts with 3 space miners finding a floating escape pod and inside it is a little girl, human-like, but not human. Before they can back to their planet they take care of her, they become her ‘uncles’ and as such decide to keep her and raise her as their own. They discover she has some special abilities. Upon returning to their planet they find things have changed, this leads to the first encounter with ‘evil’ and they end up on the run and on a planet Kezdet, which uses child slave labor.

What follows is Acorna trying to free the children and acting impulsively, which disrupts the carefully laid plans already in place to save the children.

This could almost be considered a young adult book, but there is some violence and adult situations in it.