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Title: Birth of the Firebringer (Firebringer Book 1)
Author: Meredith Ann Pierce
Published: New York: Firebird, 1985
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 210
Total Page Count: 175,105
Text Number: 512
Read Because: mentioned here in a discussion on unicorns, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Jan is a wayward princeling in a highly-structured society of unicorns overshadowed by the prophesied arrival of a unicorn who will lead them back to the land of their birth. This is a gauzy, distant world, thoughtful in construction and escapist if only for the fact that it's peopled by unicorns, griffins, satyrs, dragons; mythic, with a particular metaphysical bent to its climax. But the predictable plot and Jan's tiresome immaturity spoil the experience, and Birth of the Firebringer is insufficiently different: this isn't Redwall-levels of "human by any other name," but nor is it the fantastic, new experience that I wanted a unicorn world to be. The end result is readable but forgettable, and I won't continue the series.
Author: Meredith Ann Pierce
Published: New York: Firebird, 1985
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 210
Total Page Count: 175,105
Text Number: 512
Read Because: mentioned here in a discussion on unicorns, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Jan is a wayward princeling in a highly-structured society of unicorns overshadowed by the prophesied arrival of a unicorn who will lead them back to the land of their birth. This is a gauzy, distant world, thoughtful in construction and escapist if only for the fact that it's peopled by unicorns, griffins, satyrs, dragons; mythic, with a particular metaphysical bent to its climax. But the predictable plot and Jan's tiresome immaturity spoil the experience, and Birth of the Firebringer is insufficiently different: this isn't Redwall-levels of "human by any other name," but nor is it the fantastic, new experience that I wanted a unicorn world to be. The end result is readable but forgettable, and I won't continue the series.
