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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31470 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

From Booklist
The long-awaited third volume in the Unicorn Chronicles series is longer, darker, and more complex than the previous stories. Cara’s father, Ian, and two unlikely companions are searching for Cara’s mother, who has been hidden in the Rainbow Prison by Beloved, archenemy of the unicorns. Cara embarks on her own dangerous mission to seek the truth about the mysterious Whisperer and to possibly prevent Beloved from invading Luster. The pacing is furious as Coville propels his multiple plotlines to a riveting cliff-hanging conclusion. Readers will scream for book four. Grades 5-8. --Chris Sherman

About the Author
BRUCE COVILLE received over a dozen Children’s Choice Awards, and has written more than ninety books, including My Teacher Is an Alien, Into the Land of the Unicorns, Song of the Wanderer, and The Monster’s Ring. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Customer Reviews

At Last,it's Here!
Well,after years and years of waiting,book three in the Unicorn Chronicles is HERE!!!!Praise the Lord!And I am delighted to say that it is worth the wait.I literally could not put this book down until I was done reading it.A danger to the unicorns has been discovered. All mention of it has been blotted out of the unicorn chronicles except for its name-the Whisperer.The new Queen of the Unicorns sends Cara,Lightfoot,Belle,and Finder to the Valley of the Centaurs to see if they can find out what the Whisperer is.But they are split up when delvers attack them,and Cara is captured.With the help of some old friends,however(and a new ally)she is able to escape.Can they find out the identity of the Whisperer before the Blood Moon,when Beloved will begin the last hunt? Meanwhile,Ian Hunter,Cara's father,is searching for a way into the Rainbow Prison so that he can free his wife.He finds two new friends-Rajiv,a cocky young street urchin,and Fallon,a mysterious man who also has someone he cares about in the Rainbow Prison.With their help, Ian makes it into the Prison before Beloved's hunters catch him.But when they get there,Rajiv discovers that there is no food or water in the Rainbow Prison.In a race against the clock,can Ian find his wife in time? Dark Whispers is a wonderful book,and the fact that it is told from other POVs beside Cara's gives the story more depth.This is a suspenseful story.There is a tragic death.There is a deadly enemy who is the cause of all the unicorn's woes.There is a betrayal by one of Cara's dear friends.And the exciting cliffhanger ending will leave readers desperate for book four.

Worth 9 years
Okay, so I haven't actually been waiting nine years for this book. But I think it was well worth the time I did spend waiting for it. In this story, Cara Diana Hunter, daughter of a trained unicorn slayer and granddaughter of the unicorn queen Amalia Flickerfoot (which is one heck of a family tree), must travel with her cousin, the unicorn Lightfoot, and friends from past journeys (Grimwold, M'Gama, Finder, and Belle) 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, Cara's father, Ian Hunter, starts off 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, who is seeking a friend, and a street urchin called Rajiv, an eager tagalong who keeps things interesting and proves himself to be very important on their mission. The ending was a cliffhanger, it's true, but if you read the tags, it says it's about Cara's journey to find the story about the delvers (which is only part of the story, actually) and I thought that the ending was nicely constructed to leave you wanting more. Honestly, the other books aren't that long. An 800-page book would really blow it out of proportion, and we just get the next part of the story that much quicker. But you can make your own decision about that. In short, I found that the long-awaited third book of the Unicorn Chronicles was worth the time that it took to come out, and I will be among the first to grab my copy of Book Four when it's available.

Great Fantasy for Any Age
I first started reading The Unicorn Chronicles about 12 years ago (when I was 10). I enjoy reading them as much now as I did back then. This series is dark at times, and full of imagination and a terrific history that keeps readers enthralled. This latest book is terrific, and I couldn't put it down.