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The Firebringer Trilogy (Firebringer #1-3)
3-in-1 Hardcover edition of Meredith Ann Pierce's Firebringer Trilogy. Complete text of all 3 stories: Birth of the Firebringer, Dark Moon, and The Sun of Summer Stars.
Hardcover, 549 pages
Published
January 1st 2003
by SFBC
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Birth of the Firebringer became my favorite book ever when I read it back in sixth or seventh grade, and I reread it countless times. It's a coming-of-age story of a unicorn--not a serene, mystical race of unicorns, but a warrior race. I think what struck me is that the story is about questioning what "everyone knows" and looking at situations from the viewpoints of others, even enemies...about realizing that you can't judge others' motivations without talking to them and trying to understand th...more
This Trilogy is just awesome. Yes it's about talking unicorns but it is really really good. The characters are all very different and create this harmony that is so unique and great. It fallows a young male unicorn, Jan, through his adventures of becoming an adult to falling in love to being a captive of man and speaking with dragons about a shared enemy of wyrens. It has many surprises that keep you guessing what is Jan going to do next. This series is well worth reading and maybe more then onc...more
Apparently I went through a M.A.P. phase as a child. This series is like 10% your awww-girly-book-of-unicorns and 90% this-shit's-going-down. The unicorns are primarily fighters rather than lovers and plot weaves around coming of age + power struggles of who's going to be in charge.
Overall the trilogy is a quick read with some interesting plot but (and I said this for Darkangel trilogy too), I'm not sure if I'd appreciate this series as much now as an adult than as a kid.
Overall the trilogy is a quick read with some interesting plot but (and I said this for Darkangel trilogy too), I'm not sure if I'd appreciate this series as much now as an adult than as a kid.
I found Birth of the Firebringer at a Salvation Army in a pile of books. I was attracted to the artwork...a theme in my book choices and reviews...and the pretty horses on the cover. I read this and the rest of the books repeatedly in junior high and high school, but haven't cracked them open for several years so my opinions may not be well informed, and they certainly aren't current.
Like many young girls, I loved horses and fantasies. And here we have both, well unicorns anyways. Close enough....more
Like many young girls, I loved horses and fantasies. And here we have both, well unicorns anyways. Close enough....more
When it comes to unicorn fantasy books you read as a kid, it doesn't get much better than this.
The Firebringer Trilogy is a wonderful book!! I highly advise reading it.
Sooo gripping from front to back - all three books.
Mar 05, 2007
Jekka Jones
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Any in need of a good fantasy novel
Shelves:
light-fantasy
For all of you who love unicorns, this book is amazing. There are no pink, frilly unicorns that are threatened by measly little weasels. No, this book has dragons, gryphons, wyrms, pans, and unicorns. But these unicorns are far from the happy world-peace unicorns we see in coloring books, they are warriors. Their horns are sharpened for fighting, and they do battle with thier dreaded enemies...the wyrms. Yes, I highly recommend this book.
I loved this trilogy when I was in middle school/high school. Meredith Ann Pierce was one of my favorite authors as a teen. She's really an amazing writer, yet for some reason was never very well known. They're still good fantasy to read even for an adult.
I read these books as a grade-schooler, and I loved them! Meredith Ann Pierce is a master of creating a strange-yet-familiar world. I can't tell you how much I ate, breathed, and slept unicorns as a kid because of these books!
A lovely tale that I wish I had found when unicorns still ran in my dreams, and at night, as I fell asleep, a different form of body I pretended I might be.
I'm not a huge fan of horse (or unicorn as the case may be) stories, but this one was so well written. I like it better than her vampire series.
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Meredith Ann Pierce is a fantasy writer and librarian. Her books deal in fantasy worlds with mythic settings and yet overturn standard expectations, frequently featuring young women who first wish only to love and be loved, yet who must face hazard and danger to save their way of life, their world, and so on, usually without being respected for their efforts until the end of the story.
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