Now, he is tasked with the duty of leading the young band of warriors to the ocean to partake in a dance to court for a mate: Yet he possessed no fire and no knowledge of fire, no notion of where the magical, mystical stuff could be found – not even the goddess’s word on where to begin. Legend promised that he could do so only with fire. Somehow, he must find a way to conquer all these enemies and return his people to the Hallow Hills. He is also the Firebringer, the prophesized savior who will lead the band of unicorns back to their ancient homeland, the Hallow Hills, that were overtaken by the evil wyverns. In Birth of the Firebringer, Aljan discovered the secret of the wyverns and was proclaimed prince of the herd. Now that, we have that out of the way, let’s get into the review.
Lastly, while her fiction is mainly geared towards a younger audience anyone at any age can enjoy her works of fiction. Besides Firebringer and Darkangel, she’s also written the standalones Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood and The Woman Who Loved Reindeer. Martin or Robin McKinley, for she writes powerfully deep fiction with an adept prose to boot.īesides her Firebringer Trilogy, she has written The Darkangel Trilogy which garnered the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award, won the California Young Reader Medal and is viewed as one of the earlier, critical fantasy authors that helped give the genre its successful boost. Personally, I view Pierce as one of the most powerful voices in the fantasy universe and deserves as much respect for her work as George R. Firebringer certainly isn’t Mary Stanton’s Unicorns of Balinor or Bruce Coville’s The Unicorn Chronicles. Therefore, if you’re wary of diving-in because you don’t wish to be judged by the fantasy-based community for reading a “unicorn book”, don’t be. What Pierce ultimately accomplishes in Dark Moon is the challenging issue of hegemony in a pagan-based society. But before I begin, I feel that the following needs to be stated.Īnyone that might be wary of reading Pierce’s Firebringer Trilogy solely based on the fact that it is unicorn fiction, you are missing-out on a phenomenal trilogy that covers a wide-range of issues that abound in our own world. Meredith Ann Pierce doesn’t miss-a-beat with the second instalment of her wonderfully original Firebringer Trilogy, Dark Moon.
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