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eek! jealous!
Jealous too. Killer unicorns just sound so awesome.
Add me to jealous! I think the idea behind this one is so very clever!
This book had such great plot potential. A group of teen virgin huntresses in a secret society in Italy hunting poison horned, razor teethed, merciless unicorns. What could be cooler than this!? Unfortunately, the book did not live up to its potential; it wasn't a good book at all. I felt that unicorn hunting came second to lame romance in this book. There seems to be more paragraphs talking about the huntresses’ nonexistent sex lives than their actual training for killing unicorns. The main characters of the book are supposed to be determined virgins on a mission. The point is gotten across that they can't have sex yet. In fact, it is repeated over and over again and the reader is forced to listen to a side plot that goes nowhere! The characters also bothered me. Lilith didn't seem like a realistic mom. Cory was bipolar and vicious even considering her situation. And Astrid was just annoying; complaining about hunting unicorns and not doing anything to change it. She didn't seem like the cool, strong female at all, she was just whiney and insecure.
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Aug 01, 2009 01:22PM
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Jealous too. Killer unicorns just sound so awesome.
Add me to jealous! I think the idea behind this one is so very clever!
This book had such great plot potential. A group of teen virgin huntresses in a secret society in Italy hunting poison horned, razor teethed, merciless unicorns. What could be cooler than this!? Unfortunately, the book did not live up to its potential; it wasn't a good book at all. I felt that unicorn hunting came second to lame romance in this book. There seems to be more paragraphs talking about the huntresses’ nonexistent sex lives than their actual training for killing unicorns. The main characters of the book are supposed to be determined virgins on a mission. The point is gotten across that they can't have sex yet. In fact, it is repeated over and over again and the reader is forced to listen to a side plot that goes nowhere! The characters also bothered me. Lilith didn't seem like a realistic mom. Cory was bipolar and vicious even considering her situation. And Astrid was just annoying; complaining about hunting unicorns and not doing anything to change it. She didn't seem like the cool, strong female at all, she was just whiney and insecure.
