First Warning: Acorna’s Children by Anne McCaffrey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Suddenly, we aren’t reading about the unicorn girl but rather her daughter. And if we thought a worldwide pandemic was difficult, imagine interplanetary illness killing many.
This book was written in 2005, only six years from the author’s passing and 17 years from our own pandemic. I have to wonder how we would have reacted if we needed the healing horn of a unicorn to cure rather than a vaccine to prevent illness. Anne did show the reluctance of those infected to need the healing. Everyone had their own idea of what was causing and how to deal with the ill.
All this, space travel, and a teen needing her parents to help as she develops new abilities.
Though I have enjoyed the series, this might be my second favorite just because of how much the author could predict human behavior.
I was lucky to find this on Libby. I do wish it were audio, but the Kindle text-to-speech seems to do a good job reading this story.
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