Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Ascendant

Front Cover
49 Reviews
HarperCollins, Sep 28, 2010 - Juvenile Fiction - 416 pages

Astrid Llewelyn is now a fully trained unicorn hunter, but 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 can’t help but feel 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 Gordian 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?

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
7
4 stars
30
3 stars
9
2 stars
2
1 star
1

I love Peterfreund's prose. - Goodreads
Hesitation might result in one of us ending up dead. - Goodreads
The writing was beautiful and flowed really nicely. - Goodreads
One of the major outcomes of reading Zombies vs. - Goodreads
But this plot got so little attention. - Goodreads
... she has a whole section on unicorn research. - Goodreads

Review: Ascendant (Killer Unicorns #2)

User Review  - Sonatajessica - Goodreads

Compared to the first one I found it a tiny bit weaker and it is slightly possible that the same star rating none the less is due to the fact that "Ascendant"'s final scenes take place in my home town ... Read full review

Review: Ascendant (Killer Unicorns #2)

User Review  - Monica&spikey - Goodreads

What, I ask you, is the point of a two-book series? Torture, I tell you. That's the point. Torture. Yes, authors hate us, the readers, so they offer us these two-book contraptions, more than a novel ... Read full review

All 45 reviews »

Related books

Other editions - View all

About the author (2010)

Diana Peterfreundis the author of the killer unicorn novels Rampant and Ascendant, as well as the four-book Secret Society Girl series. A lifelong Jane Austen lover and technophile, she lives in Washington, DC, with her family, her BBC miniseries collection, and her smartphone.