false 5495243 2 <b>Forget everything you ever knew about unicorns...</b> The sparkly, innocent creatures of lore are a myth. Real unicorns are venomous, man-eating monsters with huge fangs and razor-sharp horns. And they can only be killed by virgin descendants of Alexander the Great. Fortunately, unicorns have been extinct for a hundred and fifty years. Or not. Astrid Llewelyn has always scoffed at her eccentric mother's stories about killer unicorns. But when one of the monsters attacks her boyfriend in the woods — thereby ruining any chance of him taking her to prom — Astrid learns that unicorns are real and dangerous, and she has a family legacy to uphold. Her mother packs her off to Rome to train as a unicorn hunter at the ancient cloisters the hunters have used for centuries. However, at the cloisters, all is not what it seems. Outside, the unicorns wait to attack. And within, Astrid faces other, unexpected threats: from crumbling, bone-covered walls that vibrate with a terrible power to the hidden agendas of her fellow hunters to — perhaps most dangerously of all — her growing attraction to a handsome art student... and a relationship that could jeopardize everything. 5562902 book 25 8 2009 Rampant total:237|5:69|4:92|3:50|2:18|1:8| 237 907 987 124 5 6 false false Wed Feb 11 13:07:20 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 13:09:36 -0800 2009
Think unicorns are sweet, magical horse-like creatures? Think again!

Diana Peterfreund introduces us to the darker side of unicorns in her novel RAMPANT. Peterfreund's unicorns are man-eating monsters. They can kill with poison i...more...]]> 3 6 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 14:16:28 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:34:13 -0700 2009 1
The author also set up a lot of compelling dilemnas for Astrid, the p...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 12:34:22 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 23:51:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 11:03:34 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 10:33:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 18:48:13 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 18:48:40 -0700 2009 What an intricate tale. There was a lot to digest, so it took me longer than normal to read this book. But it wasn’t for lack of desire.
I think there was a lot of information that we, as readers, needed to get before the story could really take off but once we had t...more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Oct 15 22:23:24 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 23:15:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:49:11 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 18:49:53 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 28 05:03:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 05:10:45 -0700 2009
And this book delivers on a very interesting version of what unicorns are, and h...more...]]> 2 4 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 01:02:16 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 01:19:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:03:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 08:48:39 -0700 2009 Diana Peterfreund's work. I discovered her Secret Society Girl series last year and, in what seemed like no time at all, it quickly became one of my very favorites. Tap Gown--the concluding volume of the quartet--came out in May and it was a perfectly splendid end t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 16:21:39 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:46:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 02:11:10 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 17:09:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 08:21:52 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 14:56:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 true false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 10:07:35 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 10:28:13 -0700 2009
But it was surprisingly difficult to immerse into. I can't point to any one thing -- Peterfre...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 18:02:06 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 18:34:37 -0700 2009
RAMPANT, wasn't quite the exact wa...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 12:54:30 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 15:27:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 10:54:50 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 19:28:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 26 21:08:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:43:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 08:55:27 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 09:01:32 -0700 2009
Thankfully, that phase passed pretty quickly. I grew tired of the sickly sweetness associated with unicorns, and I moved on.

This book confirmed for me that...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 06:32:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:14:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5495243