BLURB: She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones. A trio of grizzled prospectors found her drifting in an escape pod amid the asteroids, adopted her, and took her to the bandit planet Kezdet, a place where no questions are asked and the girl might grow up free.
But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own.
But Kezdet has its own dark secret. The prosperity of the planet is based on a hideous trade in child slave labor, administered by "The Piper" -- a mystery man with special plans for Acorna and her powers. But free little girls have a way of growing into freedom-loving young women, and Acorna has special plans all her own.
2 STARS
MY REVIEW: This book started out with a highly emotional scene that had me tearing up a little by the end, even though I didn't know the characters, but it went downhill from there. I think part of the problem is that it's a little too heavy on the science stuff in the first chapters for my taste. That bored me and led to me not connecting to Acorna or the miners who rescued her. After that I never really could get into the story, though it did have its good moments, especially after the group came to Kezdet and things started to pick up with the introduction of the slave children. The time spent with them was my favorite part of the book. It's too bad the story didn't start with them at the beginning, I might have enjoyed the book better if it had.
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