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Book Review By Rachael
Acorna's Search - Unicorn Girl 5 by Anne McCaffrey

The Kleevi have destroyed narhii-Vhiliinyar and Hafiz has offered Acorna's people technology to bebuild their origional homeworld Vhiliinyar. First Acorna takes a search party to explore the old world so that everything will be recreated as it once was. Then people start to go missing including Aari, Acornas lifemate. The reason behind all this leads Acorna to the Friends (who saved her ancestors the origional unicorns) and their time travelling device.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book -
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Time Travel: - into past and future equally
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - destined love (dream or prediction)
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Time Travel story? Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
If magical mental powers: - mind reading - can read emotions - healing

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters

Setting
Terrain
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a futuristic society - unfriendly aliens - empty, or nearly empty world - big overbuilt futuristic city
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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