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	• Acorna's Triumph: The Further Adventures of the Unicorn Girl Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth A. Scarborough, 2004 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

pretty good conclusion

I enjoyed the twist in the story, it kept it from being too predictable, everything turns out ok but it does make you wonder if it will, which keeps you reading. I enjoyed it but you could never read it if you hadn't read the others in the series.

Targeted To Younger Readers

Acorna's Truimph is the seventh and final book in the Acorna series by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Acorna is a young linyaari (a humanoid-unicorn species) who was raised by humans. In previous books, she has had many adventures to be reunited with the other linyaari and free their home planet from the insect-like khleevi. In Acorna's Truimph, Acorna is reunited with her missing lifemate Aari who has been time-traveling with the feline shape-changer Grimalkin. Acorna bounces from one crisis to another across space and time, chasing thieves and rescuing people, all while trying to solve the mystery of Aari's strange behavior.

The plot reads like a series of television episodes -- each crisis is neatly wrapped up and then the characters move on to the next adventure. Several of the supporting characters aren't much more than cliches and even the main characters seem shallow at times. However, it is entertaining in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way and the action does bop along fairly swiftly.

This light-hearted jaunt through space and time with almost-magical unicorn people will mostly appeal to young adults. Older readers might want to try Scarborough's Nothing Sacred or books from McCaffrey's Pern series.

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Even the best books can annoying

This book--and, indeed, the entire acorna series--is amazing, don't get me wrong. But I, being the sciency type, got a bit annoyed with it. Throughout the entire series, you are exposed to technical and science experiences, and most of them are definately plausible, if not probable, such as sentient creatures being out there somewhere. However, in this book, and the previous book, there is another concept: time travel. Time travel, even though it seems like it could be possible, is NOT, no matter what we do. We can't go back and change things. Maybe forward in time, but not backwards, and this bugged me, as the entire book is based on time travel. Also, even if time travel WERE possible, the way it is in this book doesn't seem likely: someone being stuck in a different time. I like the way JK Rowling writes time travel, with everything they did in the past already THERE (as in, Harry sees himself across the lake), whereas here, it's all changeable. And also, in Harry Potter, it's magic, so it's all possible.
But other than that, this is an amazing book. I sucked the entire series dry in less than a week. It's one where you become anxious about what's happening to characters. I love it, even with the time travel thing. And that's saying a lot--the time travel thing really annoyed me, so the rest of the series/book more than made up for it :D

Enjoy an awsome book, unless you're a scientist!

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Excellent!

This book is an excellent ending to a great series. If you liked the five previous books of this series you are going to enjoy this one also. I would have to say that it was the best book of the series. I could have done without the cliff hanger about Acorna's daughter only because it makes me want to read the series, Acorna's Children. :D

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Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series, focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.

Now, with Acorna's Triumph, they turn to the dramatic conclusion of the series, as Acorna faces her most difficult challenge ever. She has defeated slavers, a deadly international conspiracy, and the vicious alien Khleevi, only to endure the loss of her beloved Aari, distant in both time and space.

Now, finally, Aari has returned, and together they can finish rebuilding their home world. But Aari is oddly changed, to the point where he barely remembers Acorna -- much less their love -- and his actions grow more and more sinister ... As Acorna tries to stop a vicious criminal from destroying innocents, a new complication arises. Sensing the Linyaari weakness, the deadly Khleevi return, determined to take back the planet?for good. In this dark time, it will take all of the unicorn girl's courage and determination to rescue Aari and stop the alien menace once and for all.

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