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| Dark Whispers (Unicorn Chronicles) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Coville
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 7439
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0590459511
EAN: 9780590459518
ASIN: 0590459511
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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Product Description
This is a tale of two quests: Cara Diana Hunter's search for an ancient story that may unravel the secret of the long enmity between the unicorns and the delvers, and her father's journey to free Cara's mother from the Rainbow Prison. Cara's journey leads her through the strange underground world of the delvers to the court of the centaur king, while her father must travel from mysterious India to the depths of the Rainbow Prison itself. This multi-stranded story will intrigue and delight the legion of fans who have been clamoring for the next tale in this beloved series.
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 Unconscionable cliffhanger. November 12, 2008
This is not even a cliffhanger. It is not a book. It is 462 excellent pages of an 800 page book. Let this serve as the warning that should have been on the cover of "Dark Whispers": Wait for pages 463 to 800 to be written before starting this book at all.
Book three explains a lot, but introduces new characters, new twists, new angles, which all build up to ... nothing. The building-up was done very well, but give me a break! The story races along until you hit the brick wall (the "epilogue" which in its essence is this, "everything you thought that this book was supposed to resolve, as well as the new tensions just introduced, is another story altogether. See ya.")
I guess Bruce ran out of space. Whether this disappiontment was the author's decision or the publisher's, my hope is that Book 4 comes out after 9 weeks, and not the 9 years it took for book 3. It's a near-fabulous series, but it needs more frequent installments.
BTW, the "cliffhanger" was so egregious that I was tempted to give only one star. The build-up however, and the entire series, was 4 or 5.
 Worth the wait November 8, 2008
I loved this book! I began the series many years ago, and I wasn't sure about picking up the series again. I'm glad I did. I really appreciate these books more now than I did when I started them. The characters have a lot of depth although the book itself is told almost like a fairy tale. We see Cara mature, and we get to see the deph in her father, too. It had a variety of point of views, which are all portrayed differently. I definitely reccommend reading this one.
Worth the wait. November 5, 2008
I have been waiting impatiently for years for the third book in The Unicorn Chronicles series to be released. I had almost given up hope. I love this series. Dark Whispers was worth the wait.
I Loved It! September 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had to wait 9 years for book 3 and I is fantastic. When I got the book and started to read it I could not put it down. I was upset with the second death in the book, but that is personal feelings.
It leaves you dreaming of a book 4.
This book is worth the wait! August 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At long last, the third book to the Unicorn Chronicles! In this story, Cara Diana Hunter, daughter of a trained unicorn slayer, and granddaughter of the unicorn queen Amalia Flickerfoot, must travel with her cousin, the unicorn Lightfoot, and friends from past journeys to unearth the story that has the potential to uncover the secret between the eminity between the unicorns and the vicious monsters called the delvers. Meanwhile, in India, Ian Hunter, Cara's father, starts of on a dangerous quest to free his wife from the red shaft of the Rainbow Prison with the help of a mysterious man called Fallon and an orphaned boy named Rajiv. With over 450 pages of cliffhanger chapters, terrifying kidnappings, a heartbreaking death, the appearance of former allies and new-found friends, not to mention a horrifying betrayal, with a cliffhanger ending that will leave you beating your head against the book, Dark Whispers is a book not to be missed!
This book was well written and worth the wait, but I don't think I can wait so long for book 4!
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