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Summary: This is a wonderful book!
Review: "The Black Unicorn" is one of the most haunting books I have ever read, and I highly recommend it to anyone. The desert setting is wonderful, and the descriptions of people, events, and places in the book are vivid. At some times, I found it to be a little dark, but that was offset by the humor of Tanith's pet peeve. I gave my copy away a few years ago and I now regret it. A wonderful read!
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: Black Unicorn isn't really worth your time if you don't want to read the sequels. This book is really short, but drags everything out. Near the end there is so much confusion that I had to read it through many times in addition to asking a friend. Tanaquil, the main character, isn't the brightest person in the world. She often fails to see the obvious. The writing style is quite confusing. This isn't your average fantasy tale, it's more about a girl lost in the desert. How fun.
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Summary: this book stays under my pillow(joke)
Review: i first read this book in 4th grade and have continued to read it all my life it is a true masterpeice i have but one copy and it is dogeared from use i recomend that u read this imediately
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Summary: Wonderful, Wonderful Book!
Review: I first read this book in junior high, and now I'm a freshman in college and I'm still re-reading it. This was the first Tanith Lee book I ever read, and it's probably the best one I've ever read (no easy feat). The Black Unicorn is the subtle, humorous story of Tanaquil, the bored, cranky daughter of a powerful sorceress. She lives in her mother's fortress in the middle of a desert where no one ever comes, and is terribly, terribly tired of being there. One day Tanaquil "accidently" brings a unicorn to life, and Tanaquil finds herself on quite an adventure, together with a talking peeve whom she met in the fortress along for the ride. Tanaquil is a wonderful character, one of my favorites of all time. She is smart, subtle, creative, strong, and realistic. Her little "sidekick", the desert peeve, is just as wonderful, and the book wouldn't be the same without it. The book is filled with all kinds of people and creatures and places and things, all of which are amusing and fully fleshed-out. Tanith Lee writes this story beautifully, with rich images, a sense of humor, and a real knack for the fantastic and the oddly magical mundane. I'm really sorry to hear that this book is unavailable. If you like fantasies or fairy-tales, you should definitely try to find this book and its two sequels in a good library.
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Summary: Adventurous (Very)
Review: I love reading fantasy books especially Unicorns. I have read all three the;Black, Red and Gold Unicorns. They are so cool! I am thirteen and if you need the perfect gift for an eigth grader here is the "Book". I think that this is the bomb. It is very intriguing, suspenseful, and it really keeps you hanging on to the edge of your seat 'till the very end!
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Summary: Not the best ,but good.
Review: I really liked this book .It was rather interesting ,funny ,and mysterious .I finished this in probably just a couple of hours,because it's short ,and because it's good .I loved the peeves,they were just so cute and funny.The talking statues and pictures and such reminded me of The Gargoyle in THE ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES,or the Fat Lady ,in HARRY POTTER.
One might wonder why I didn't rate this five stars.This is why,the story was crammed in ,the ending slightly hurried,that's why .
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Summary: A strangely beautiful, funny-sad book
Review: If one thing can be said of Tanith Lee, it's that she's versatile! From tales of darkness and vampires, to the most beautiful fantasies, she writes with flair. In the BLACK UNICORN, she focuses on Tanaquil, Daughter of a mighty sorceress. With no apparent magic of her own, the monotony of Tanaquil's life is only relieved by her interest and talent for mending things. Until, one day she finds mysterious fragments of beautiful bone in the desert, and puts them together to form a Unicorn, and her life changes forever. This book probably contains one of the most delightful and enchanting charecters ever. The Peeve. A furry sand creature with the ability to talk in the vocabulary of a 2-year child, it's antics fill the book with gentle humour. A wonderful book, to be read again and again.
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Summary: the ALL-TIME BEST Unicorn story I ever read by Tanith Lee!!!
Review: Incredible story that I still love after three years.
The sequels are great too!! This book is short, but anyone will love it once they pick it up.!! Read this book by Tanith Lee, please!!! She is not well known like Philip Pullman, but her books are worth reading too...
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Summary: black unicorn
Review: it was ok but it dragged everything on. i was hoping it would have more excitement and scenes with the unicorn, it scarcely shows up. i was ably to guess what would happen next, and be pretty close to what actually happened. as i said above, it was ok, but i dont think im gonna waste my time on the next 2 books.
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Summary: Very Good/Excellent
Review: NOTE: This isn't exactly a tale about unicorns (phew!). The unicorn in Tanith Lee's 'Black Unicorn' is used as a catalyst for Tanaquil's journey to self-discovery. So if you want some book about fields spotted with pretty, white unicorns guarded by gossamer-winged fairy-folk, this ain't for you. Nope, only one unicorn here; and it's a nice, big, black, one with blazing red eyes and a razor horn... THE PLOT: It's been explained aplenty, so I won't go on about it. THE AUTHOR: Tanith Lee sets the benchmark for intelligent, witty and enjoyable storytelling in Young Adult Fiction. Sure "that Limy Snickers-or-other" and "that Harry Potter woman" may get all the attention, but Ms Lee has been churning out winners for decades. Black Unicorn is no exception. Hopefully Lee's new book, 'Piratica' (just out from Hodder, Feb 2004), will net her some much-deserved attention-look out for that one.
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