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Acorna's People (Acorna 3)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Corgi Books (2000-07-06)
ISBN: 0552546593
EAN: 9780552546591
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 384 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Good for some, not for others
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-11-05
I happen to really like this book! Anything unicorn fascinates me, and this series of books and it's main character, Acorna, enchants me no end. Saying that, it can be confusing in places making you go back again and again until you get it, never a good sign in any book in my opinion. If you are a die-hard McCaffrey or unicorn fan (like me) you'll love the entire series (which will probably go on an on given the semi-cliffhanger nature of the endings.) If not, you probably won't get as much out of it.
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Average- but not as good as I expected
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-10-04
I thought that this book would be the conclusion to the Acorna series, but instead, it seems that there is more to come. A shame, really, the premise was good, but the story has suffered from being dragged out with so many sub-plots, and the idea of a race of insect-like creatures attacking humans and newly discovered aliens is a little too familiar.
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Acorna and her team do it again - again !
Rating (3)
Date: 2000-08-02
I'm sorry but this is not McCaffrey at her best. The concept of the pollution-purging unicorns defeating all evil and finding good in the baddest of bad men detracts from her usual skill as a writer. Yes, once again, there is the McC-type heroine with the usual supportive-male versus the remainder of the universe - either as enemies or just people-short-of-empathy. There are too many loose ends from the previous books being dragged into new twists. It doesn't work as well as it could. The three groups of Pern stories work well even though the story has evolved a great deal. Whether Crystal-Singer was begun as a trilogy or not, it was tighter than this work. The Acorna story is not really up to standard.
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Best so far!
Rating  (5)
Date: 1999-09-03
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The Acorna series has grown from a curious, uninformed buy to my favorite Anne McCaffrey-collaboration series. I was instantly charmed by the young girl who they called "Acorna" in the first book, and after I had finished that book, waited for the sequel which had been promised. I soaked that one up, finding it to be even better than the first. I realized there were a few loose ends at the end of Acorna's Quest, but thought little of it. When I first saw an advertisement for Acorna's People, therefore, I literally cheered out loud!Acorna's People did not let me down. From the beautiful cover (the first to actually get Acorna's features somewhat right, as well as the first I'd ever seen to use vanilla as the predominant color) to the wonderful typeface, and, oh, the story! Anne McCaffrey brings out her very best in character creation skills once again, giving us Jonas Becker, a return to the grizzled space miners of the first book, and his delightful sidekick RK (Roadkill), and a deliciously horrible villain, along with a delightful cast of Liinyari to open up an entirely new direction for Acorna - once again. I have always loved Anne's work, and, though I had not yet read her Scarborough collaboration, the Paytabe series, I am quite pleased with Elisabeth's contributions, which are admittably harder to spot than Margret Ball's in the first two novels - A tribute to their ability to work as a team. I won't say that a change of coauthors has done the series good - that wouldn't be fair to margaret, whose wonderful portrayal of Acorna on Kizdet first got me hooked on the series - but I will say a fresh writing style has opened up brand new worlds for Acorna (literally, even), and I eagerly await the next book in the series, already promised us after the next "Pegasus" novel.
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Excellent novel with deffinite room for more.
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-07-31
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Acorna's People is my favorite in the Acorna series. It is action-packed and romantic. Acorna is basically a full-grown Linyarii by this time and is prepared to choose a life mate. The one she chooses could have a book of his own, he has been through so much. This novel takes place on the new Linyarii home world and it is fascinating how Acorna has been introduced to her people and how she is coping with them on their planet. It is evident that Acorna has a little bit of the "barbaric" humans in her and it takes her awhile to get used to some of her people's customs. This novel is fast-paced and exciting. It is one of my new favorite books. There is deffinetely room for a sequel. I thought that a lot of things were left out of this trilogy. For example, we never found out if Acorna's body will stabilize or if in a few years she will be old. Overall, this book had a strong hold on me and I found it hard to put down. I give it five stars.
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