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The Last Unicorn
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Jason Koivu
Feb 01, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fantasy, fiction
Wonderful story that I read waaay too late in the game!

The Last Unicorn is a great quest novel with a driven character in search of the most sympathetic of causes, to find out if she is the last of her kind. It's filled with a bevy of almost Alice-in-Wonderland-interesting side characters...although I could've done without the names, especially Schmendrick, the bumbling wizard. Come on.

Honestly, that last point is what holds this back from being a truly great classic in my eyes. Let me explain..
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Andrew
Mar 16, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Creatures of night, brought to light.

There’s a breath of the ethereal in this one, a twinkle in the eye. A unicorn with no name wonders if she is the last of her kind. She sets out to find the truth.

Along the way dangers and mysteries and friends beset her. Is she susceptible to perils, and does she ever really need help? What laws govern her? Even now, I do not know. I find it likely that the unicorn cannot say, either.

This is a tale that is as much story as melody. It is as much about a unicor
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