Saturday, December 7, 2013

Ascendant by Diana Peterfreund



Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Urban Fantasy; Magic, Unicorns, People with Abilities
Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars

Back Cover: The hunt continues…Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully-trained unicorn hunter, but she’s learning she can’t solve all her problems with just a bow and arrow. Her boyfriend Giovanni has decided to leave Rome, the Cloisters is in dire financial straits, her best friend’s powers seem to be mysteriously disintegrating, and Astrid fears that school, home, and her hopes of becoming a scientist are nothing but impossible dreams. So when she’s given the opportunity to leave the Cloisters and put her skills to use as part of a scientific quest to discover The Remedy, Astrid leaps at the chance. Finally, she can have exactly what she wants. . . or can she? At the Gordian Pharmaceuticals headquarters deep in the French countryside, Astrid begins to question everything she thought she believed: her love for Giovanni, her loyalty to the Cloisters, and – most of all – her duty as a hunter. Should Astrid be saving the world from killer unicorns, or saving the unicorns from the world?

This is the second book in the killer unicorns series. Astrid is not sure she wants to still hunt. Yes she is good at it but it doesn’t mean that she likes it. Her mother is going on TV talking about unicorn hunting. While things just seem to be going awry. I don’t want to get into this story as I don’t want to give too much away. I have to say that I thought that this story was a little bit of a downer. It’s not that it’s a bad story actually it was very well written. But it is a literal a downer as a lot of sad things happen. I do like how this added to the story and hope that at some point there will be more to this series.

Publisher: Harper Teen
ISBN: 0061490024
Pages: 400
Series: Killer Unicorns
Volume: 2

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