March to Other Worlds Day 18 The Veterinarian's Field Guide to Rabid Unicorns by Elise Loyacano Perl

March to Other Worlds Day 18 The Veterinarian’s Field Guide to Rabid Unicorns by Elise Loyacano Perl

For Day 18 of the March, I offer a fun novel inspired by a combination of Jurassic Park and ancient mythology. It’s a little bit slow in getting started, probably so we understand that our hero is not the assertive type. He’s the “everyone takes advantage of me type”. He’s in a terrible job situation and gets offered a new job with a fantastic salary that involves his skills as a veterinarian, but the new employer won’t tell him what his “patients” will be or where the job is.

 

So, pushed to the limit, our hero ends up accepting the job and finds out that he is working at a “Jurassic Park” style zoo for unicorns—carnivorous unicorns whose craving for meat is out of control because the mad scientist who created them can’t accept that they are really meat eaters. The boss worries that the kids he wants to frolic with the unicorns won’t like them as much if his star attraction want to eat them. (And yes, I think we, the reader, can agree that the kids probably wouldn’t enjoy frolicking with animals who spear them on their horns and then eat them.) Our hero’s seemingly impossible job is to find a way to get the carnivorous unicorns to stop being carnivorous, which doesn’t look like a realistic possibility to either the hero or the reader. But it’s fun watching him try to keep a disaster from happening and finally watching him learn that some things are worth asserting himself for.

 

This book had two surprises I just didn’t see coming which is always a good thing. It’s a fun romp from beginning to end. If you’d rather read about man-eating unicorns instead of dinosaurs and laugh while you do it, I think you’ll find this a good read.

 

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