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Anne McCaffrey's Unicorn Girl: The Illustrated Adventures
1 Trouble in Kezdet - Secret message calls Acorna back for children left behind after she rescued thousands from slave labor. Dodger means well, Didi Badini does not.
2 Pony Girl - Child slaves traditionally carry bets for horse races, or die, till Acorna intervenes.
3 Acorna's Serum - Acorna hopes her healing horn can provide serum to cure viral plague, but loses helper Peter. Suicide or murder?
4 Biographic - main character profiles
2 Pony Girl - Child slaves traditionally carry bets for horse races, or die, till Acorna intervenes.
3 Acorna's Serum - Acorna hopes her healing horn can provide serum to cure viral plague, but loses helper Peter. Suicide or murder?
4 Biographic - main character profiles
136 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 1997
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Mickey Zucker Reichert
89 books184 followersMickey Zucker Reichert (pseudonym for Miriam Susan Zucker Reichert) is an American fantasy fiction author of several best selling novels. Perhaps her most famous work is the epic Renshai series, which offers an intriguing perspective on traditional Norse mythology. She is also a parent and paediatrician with a soft spot for critters great and small. She has been known care for a veritable zoo of creatures, at times including mice, horses, snakes, llamas, parrots, squirrels, possums, and foxes.
Alongside her twenty-two novels, Reichert has also published one illustrated novella and fifty-plus short stories.
Alongside her twenty-two novels, Reichert has also published one illustrated novella and fifty-plus short stories.
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December 18, 2013
Lectures in plot are poison. Pictures are wasted. Theme of child slavery pictorially placed in Asia, India - turbans, robes, dark skin. Couplings are forced, between species and same gender. Hero(ine) is stupid untrustworthy. X-rated for unclad whores, abuse, torture, oozing wounds, suicide.
Inconsistent contradictions. If her rich patron Delszaki Li has wasting disease, why does Acorna not cure him? Why "impossible for her to cure each person individually. The virus worked too rapidly" p 122, yet one "died in agony, needlessly .. Acorna could have saved" him p 125. Which?
1 Trouble in Kezdet - White fur Acorna obeys secret email, supposedly from children missed before, obviously ambush. She lies to and evades Pal, heads for worst slum, ignores danger: locked door, strange circulation pipes, fatally poisoned drink and air, refuses to leave until raggle-tag Sanga breaks window and requires her to exit before he will. Didi Bandini is "The Didi" (Didi is normally a title of respect "Big Sister"), a madam, conspires with flat-chested anorexic Kisla, who Acorna disgraced as bastard commoner, not baroness heir to child labor industrial father. Dodger, neglected as child survived and escaped, now as grownup collects other rejects.
2 Pony Girl - Space station Kismet tradition enslaves children to run race bets to bookies. Kids who lose jobs by whim of noble employers have no alternative support, suicide by walking into garbage incinerators. Li taught Acorna smart gambling; she tries to win back youngsters who never have the chance to grow old.
3 Acorna's Serum - In Ireland Earth, her cheerful assistant Peter swallows radioactive cesium after suicide when test serums from Acorna's healing horn fail to cure viral plague victims.
4 Biographic - 6 main char profiles, faces: Li, Bandini, Pal; Acorna's friends Declan Gilloglie 6' redhead loves Judit Kendoro (Pal's sister), Hafiz Harakamian master trader in turban (grey sprinkled beard) and adopted son Rafik Nadezda. Height, weight, hair, eyes. Instead of washed-out tints, why not see true hair/eye colors in pictures? Ages guessable from faces, status relative to family and lovers. Empty space on page has enough room for full-size figure, instead three colors beam from "vid-cube" to photo. Why bother with color and require words?
Typos:
p 53 "By the time they touched down, all three of them were howling" with laughter, but only two, Gill and Rafik, are aboard.
p 64 Why wait so long to interpret "Didi"? Why respect Bandini?
p 81 Picture of feminine horn-less helmeted head (goggles on forehead?) in hands, seated at desk (with crystal ball never mentioned), pondering moon out window, but facing page 80 is about Acorna, Pal, girl always in bed (unnamed for 7 pages)?
Inconsistent contradictions. If her rich patron Delszaki Li has wasting disease, why does Acorna not cure him? Why "impossible for her to cure each person individually. The virus worked too rapidly" p 122, yet one "died in agony, needlessly .. Acorna could have saved" him p 125. Which?
1 Trouble in Kezdet - White fur Acorna obeys secret email, supposedly from children missed before, obviously ambush. She lies to and evades Pal, heads for worst slum, ignores danger: locked door, strange circulation pipes, fatally poisoned drink and air, refuses to leave until raggle-tag Sanga breaks window and requires her to exit before he will. Didi Bandini is "The Didi" (Didi is normally a title of respect "Big Sister"), a madam, conspires with flat-chested anorexic Kisla, who Acorna disgraced as bastard commoner, not baroness heir to child labor industrial father. Dodger, neglected as child survived and escaped, now as grownup collects other rejects.
2 Pony Girl - Space station Kismet tradition enslaves children to run race bets to bookies. Kids who lose jobs by whim of noble employers have no alternative support, suicide by walking into garbage incinerators. Li taught Acorna smart gambling; she tries to win back youngsters who never have the chance to grow old.
3 Acorna's Serum - In Ireland Earth, her cheerful assistant Peter swallows radioactive cesium after suicide when test serums from Acorna's healing horn fail to cure viral plague victims.
4 Biographic - 6 main char profiles, faces: Li, Bandini, Pal; Acorna's friends Declan Gilloglie 6' redhead loves Judit Kendoro (Pal's sister), Hafiz Harakamian master trader in turban (grey sprinkled beard) and adopted son Rafik Nadezda. Height, weight, hair, eyes. Instead of washed-out tints, why not see true hair/eye colors in pictures? Ages guessable from faces, status relative to family and lovers. Empty space on page has enough room for full-size figure, instead three colors beam from "vid-cube" to photo. Why bother with color and require words?
Typos:
p 53 "By the time they touched down, all three of them were howling" with laughter, but only two, Gill and Rafik, are aboard.
p 64 Why wait so long to interpret "Didi"? Why respect Bandini?
p 81 Picture of feminine horn-less helmeted head (goggles on forehead?) in hands, seated at desk (with crystal ball never mentioned), pondering moon out window, but facing page 80 is about Acorna, Pal, girl always in bed (unnamed for 7 pages)?
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February 6, 2013Because I distinctly remember reading this while in the waiting room of a dentist office, my memory of the book is somewhat tainted in the way only dental surgery can.
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