The Guardian Herd: Starfire

So, this is a pretty violent book for an elementary level reader. Like, we're talking full on implied rape(to be fair, I probably only picked up on this because I'm older than the target demo. But it's still implied), genocide, fairly graphic (describing the sound of a spinal cord being broken, the......more

Reading this made my inner child (who often escapes and runs amok as an outer child, but that's an issue to deal with another day) gleefully, squealingly happy. About the only thing that would've made the whole thing even better would've been the presence of unicorns. But that's just my horse-obsess......more

I'm going to start off by explaining that I am 28, so that may weigh my opinion a bit. I don't think it's a huge deal since I was reading 'adult' fantasy when I was 12. I don't imagine I would have had any problems enjoying this series then, and I don't know. The biggest problem with this novel is th......more

This is going to be a very hard book to give a star rating to... I have mixed feelings about it. I love the pegasi in it obviously because they are horses (with wings) but the overall story is just so dark. It's filled with so much dark and evilness that just overwhelms everything else. And it's not......more

Star is the “black foal” – a black pegasi that is born once every 100 years. On the black foals’ first birthday (at midnight), the Hundred Year Star gives its power to the black foal of the century. With this power, the black foal can become either the Destroyer or the Healer of the herds. Either wa......more