Dark Whispers

by Bruce Coville

Book Overview

In the third volume of the Unicorn Chronicles, Cara Diana Hunter journeys to the Valley of the Centaurs in search of a mysterious lost story that could hold the key to the survival of the unicorns. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590459511
• ISBN13: 9780590459518
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Good book for tweens

My daughter loves this series. I have also read the books. They are great for 10-12 year olds. A fun fantasy with nothing to concern parents.

Worth the wait

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 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.