This one wasn't for me.

A toddler, unicorn-girl alien with purifying, healing powers is found and raised by three bachelor asteroid miners. Throw in a world with exploited extreme poverty and enslaved children in need of rescue and it seems like a magical, feel-good combination of fantasy, sci-fi, and social justice.

But those enslaved children? HIDEOUSLY abused and oppressed. Along with just about all (all except Acorna?) of the women in this book. As I was thinking about it, I realized that the bulk of my review was basically just going to be a big content warning. Yes, the good folks are trying to defeat the evil folks, but the characterizations are shallow and uneven, with sexual abuse and the throw-away lives of women and children standing in for much of it. Add in cultural insensitivity and stereotypes and the whole book becomes something that I can't really recommend.

It's an interesting premise, there are certainly redeeming characters and characteristics, and I did kind of want to keep reading the series to find out more about Acorna's people and what I suspect is going to be an epic tale on a galactic stage. But alas. There are too many other books calling my name to be hanging out with ones I don't trust at this point. Your mileage, as always, may vary.