Feb 14
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: Alright, with this book we’re targeting that often over-looked pre-teen girl fantasy market. What do pre-teen girls like? Cats and unicorns. Wait! I have it. There’s a girl, but she’s also a unicorn! What do you mean that doesn’t make sense? Make it happen! Oh, and make sure she has a cat.
Published 2003
(Average: 5.35 out of 10)
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February 14th, 2014 at 9:45 am
“OK, remember that thing about cats always landing on their feet? Let’s put that to the test…”
February 14th, 2014 at 10:43 am
Surely this should have the “once you see it” tag.
Clever fontwork, using the serif on the L to suggest an (additional) horn… although that would make her a bicorn.
February 14th, 2014 at 10:55 am
This cover’s only half way to “once you see it”…
February 14th, 2014 at 12:02 pm
…..I….I….like cats and unicorns…
February 14th, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Before we all start blaming the hapless art director:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorna
http://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0380978997/ref=cm_cr_dp_syn_footer?k=Acorna's%20Rebels&showViewpoints=1
Beautiful, silver-haired, pure-souled, magical half-girl-half-unicorn on a quest to save special telepathic cats. This is really, truly what the book is about.
February 14th, 2014 at 12:19 pm
“ACORNA’S REBFIS”
Is Rebfis the cat? And does Acorna have one, two or three horns? Or is that a Bluetooth on her ear?
February 14th, 2014 at 1:18 pm
@Bibliomancer – No no it’s “Acorna’s Rebfi,s” wait… that doesn’t clear up anything..
February 14th, 2014 at 2:13 pm
You numbskulls! That’s her right ear.
I wish to complain about the lack of anti-gravity watermelons on this cover.
February 14th, 2014 at 2:31 pm
@DSWBT — Not to mention the lack of dainty hoof-feet. Bet she has a nice tail.
February 14th, 2014 at 3:32 pm
Is there a half man – half centaur in this book series?
If not there should be – from the front you´d mistake him for a normal bloke but he has the back half of a tiny horse sticking out from his butt.
February 14th, 2014 at 3:48 pm
Both this book and “Acorna’s Search” have the tag “The Further Adventures of the Unicorn Girl.” Surely whichever of these came latest should have “The EVEN Further Adventures, etc.” or “Yet More Adventures” or at least “SOME Further Adventures…”
@RachelJ – Now that you mentioned the “special telepathic cats” I really want to read this book…I have a list. This book just made it.
February 14th, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Yup, this cover positively oozes rebellion.
February 14th, 2014 at 9:52 pm
“Beautiful, silver-haired, pure-souled, magical half-girl-half-unicorn on a quest to save special telepathic cats.”
I dont know, seems the ratio of woman to unicorn is one sided, VERY one sided….Perhaps it should read, mostly woman but with very non offensive unicorn traits. Someone rolled the DNA dice and won bigtime!
February 15th, 2014 at 8:12 am
I don’t know anything about these books or this half woman half unicorn character, but I’m pretty sure the story of that human/horse mating would be unsuitable for, well, anyone.
February 15th, 2014 at 8:55 am
@Lionrock. I don’t think it was her parents- Wikipedia says her whole species is “descended from what can be considered Unicorns”. Whatever that means.
February 15th, 2014 at 3:53 pm
@RachelJ @Lionrock — Acorna’s parents.
February 16th, 2014 at 6:03 pm
If the cat isn’t also a unicorn, this is the Worst Book Evah.
February 16th, 2014 at 7:56 pm
“And so Acorna saved the Kingdom of Eternia and was rewarded with the title of Royal Coat Hanger.”
March 27th, 2014 at 3:21 pm
The name “Acorna” sounds kind of corny…yuk, yuk, yuk.
June 14th, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Rejected titles:
2 Acorna 2 Rebels
Acorna’s Rebels: narhii-Vhiliinyar Drift
Acorna & Further 6
Can Be Considered a Unicorn 6
June 14th, 2015 at 6:30 pm
I feel that not giving the cat a tiny unicorn horn of its own was a missed opportunity.
June 15th, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Is there someone lying in the rubble in the background? That looks like a nose.
I can’t get over the definite article in “The further adventures of the unicorn girl”. It’s really bad when “Them further adventures of the unicorn girl” is an actual improvement. The only way the text works is if “further” isn’t an adverb but some sort of descriptive noun.
March 30th, 2017 at 8:23 am
Pray that Acorna won’t trip, fall and get stuck in a floor plank.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist one more…)
June 30th, 2017 at 1:23 am
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE ECONOMICS GIRL…
ACORNA’S ROUBLES
June 30th, 2017 at 2:40 am
Can I just say I like the kitteh? He’s well-drawn.
I do note that his eyebrow whiskers are very much shaped and placed like a horn would be if he was a unicorn cat.
And surely someone’s written unicorn cat stories by now. There are winged cat stories galore. Still, getting a head bump from a horned cat wouldn’t be pleasant.
8 year old GSSXN says, cut out the middle humanoid and let’s have telepathic cats riding unicorns, having adventures.