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Title: Birth of the Firebringer (Firebringer Trilogy, V. 1.) by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 0-14-250053-4 Publisher: Firebird Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.98 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "When Alma created the world...."
Comment: This book and the two that follow it form the most undeservedly obscure trilogy in fantasy. If a coming-of-age adventure with a unicorn protagonist and a cast of characters including marauding gryphons, treacherous wyverns, and a goddess of many guises sounds unlikely, my only suggestion is, read and be entranced: it's beautiful! Pierce's exquisite, lyrical language and hypnotizing narrative spring from the same source as the epic cycles of myth and legend. At the same time, the wonderful creatures--mythical and otherwise--who people her world are vividly believable and blazing with life. The "young adult" designation is apt, but not important: these are great stories, and as any lover of fantasy knows, great stories transcend labels. Difficult as they are to find (the first two are VERY out of print, though the third, _The Son of Summer Stars_, is, I believe, still available,) they're worth the quest. These books have affected me powerfully in more ways than I can express, but I can say with confidence that once you have listened to the Lay of the Unicorns, fled from a serpent-cloud on the Great Grass Plain, and danced with a wyvern under a dark moon, the wild song of Aljan son-of-Korr will echo through your dreams ever after
Rating: 5
Summary: An Old Favorite
Comment: I'll even admit it right off the bat: I still like unicorns. As a child, I was into anything unicorn-related--even the airbrushed, mass-media-image ones you saw given away as prizes at the State Fair. (You know which ones I mean, with the pink manes and everything. Admit it, you had them, too.) Now that I'm older, my unicorn-stuff collection has thinned out quite a bit. I've grown out of most of it...but there are keepers.
If you ever--EVER--had an imagination, this is your book. I've had my battered copy since it was published in 1985, and haven't gotten tired of it yet. The story centers around Aljan, Prince of the Unicorns. Aljan's journey takes you into a believable world full of legend and lore that will draw you in and hold you until the very last word. And then you'll want to read it again.
This book is part of the "Firebringer Trilogy," which includes "Dark Moon" and "The Son of Summer Stars," all by Meredith Ann Pierce. (Incidentally, all three will be re-published by Firebird Books in Summer 2003--a long time in coming, if I may say so!) While the second and third books are good in their own right, they don't come close to the first. This is the one you're going to keep.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good start to a unique triolgy
Comment: 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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Title: A Gathering of Gargoyles: The Darkangel Trilogy, Volume II by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 0152018018 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Pearl of the Soul of the World: The Darkangel Trilogy, Volume III by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 015201800X Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: The Darkangel: The Darkangel Trilogy, Volume I by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 0152017682 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 0142500135 Publisher: Firebird Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Woman Who Loved Reindeer by Meredith Ann Pierce ISBN: 0152017992 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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