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Summary: The Grand Finale
Review: After many adventures and a few heartbreaks, Tanaquil returns home to her mother's fortress in the desert only to find that everything has changed. Tanaquil's mother has fallen in love and, if she spent little time with Tanaquil before, she spends none with her now. Tanaquil is considering moving on when adventure comes for her in the shape of a red unicorn...The red unicorn leads Tanaquil into a world that mirrors her own. Everyone she knows and loves is in this world...even she is here in the form of a princess named Tanakil. But everything here is opposite. The sky is green, wolves eat nuts, and everyone that is evil in Tanaquil's world is good here... and vice versa. Can Tanaquil stop her evil twin Tanakil before she does the unthinkable and murders her own sister? And will Tanaquil ever be able to return to her own world? And, more importantly, if she does, will Tanaquil have the courage to tell her half-sister the awful truth...that Tanaquil is in love with her half-sister's future husband? How could such a tangled story have a happy ending...you may be surprised. This is the last book in the trilogy that also contains Black Unicorn and Red Unicorn. All three books are wonderful, but this one is by far the best. I highly recommend them all.
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Summary: Loved it!!!
Review: Excellent book! I missed out on Gold Unicorn, but the summary at the front of the book helped a lot! I love Tanith lee's humour and writing style--very vivid, imaginative, and a very good read! Gives the unicorn its due!
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Summary: Fantasy, or much, much, much more?
Review: I dunno, I was very disappointed in this one. I LOVED Black Unicorn, and I thought Gold Unicorn was excellent, but the plot of Red Unicorn just left me... a bit cold. Instead of going into an alternate reality, Tanaquil could have done a lot of what she did in the "real" world instead, and I might have enjoyed it more. I think what annoyed me about the book was that it had alter-characters(?) in another dimension of all the real characters back in Tanaquil's world. It didn't seem necessary. The whole thing wasn't able to hold me. Plus, for some reason, the writing style seemed lonely and isolated, perhaps because Tanaquil herself was isolated in a way throughout the entire book. What I really want, altogether, and which will probably not happen, is for Tanaquil to interact more with characters and to have her own adventures. However, not much can stand up to the original, and Tanith Lee writes in a way that doesn't follow the roads quite right-on, but sideways. Her story seems to have it all, but something is not quite right. The characters are not typical, the situations would appear to be almost typical but then veer sharply away. Altogether, this is a wonderful style to read, and I'd normally be happy, but something doesn't come quite all the way through, as if Tanith Lee was getting somewhere, then stopped in the middle of the road.
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Summary: Sigh, It's Not The Same
Review: I dunno, I was very disappointed in this one. I LOVED Black Unicorn, and I thought Gold Unicorn was excellent, but the plot of Red Unicorn just left me... a bit cold. Instead of going into an alternate reality, Tanaquil could have done a lot of what she did in the "real" world instead, and I might have enjoyed it more. I think what annoyed me about the book was that it had alter-characters(?) in another dimension of all the real characters back in Tanaquil's world. It didn't seem necessary. The whole thing wasn't able to hold me. Plus, for some reason, the writing style seemed lonely and isolated, perhaps because Tanaquil herself was isolated in a way throughout the entire book. What I really want, altogether, and which will probably not happen, is for Tanaquil to interact more with characters and to have her own adventures. However, not much can stand up to the original, and Tanith Lee writes in a way that doesn't follow the roads quite right-on, but sideways. Her story seems to have it all, but something is not quite right. The characters are not typical, the situations would appear to be almost typical but then veer sharply away. Altogether, this is a wonderful style to read, and I'd normally be happy, but something doesn't come quite all the way through, as if Tanith Lee was getting somewhere, then stopped in the middle of the road.
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Summary: Doesn't Compare With the First Two Books
Review: Lee's first unicorn book, Black Unicorn, was enjoyable and very promising. Gold Unicorn, the second book, was awesome and had me eagerly anticpating the next. Tanaquil is an intriging, challenging character, easy to relate to, making any book with her presence instantly interesting. But Red Unicorn was something of a let-down. In concept, the idea of Tanaquil visiting an alternative version of her own world after being in versions of paradise and hell was brilliant. Yet somehow Lee didn't execute Red Unicorn with her usual level of skill. I found myself wanting Tanaquil to get her adventures with her double, Tanakil, over with so I could find out what happened to Honj, and when he did appear, the end result was unsatisfying. However, if you did read and enjoy Black Unicorn and Gold Unicorn, it's defintely worth a read, if not quite as good of a read as the previous books.
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Summary: Doesn't Compare With the First Two Books
Review: Lee's first unicorn book, Black Unicorn, was enjoyable and very promising. Gold Unicorn, the second book, was awesome and had me eagerly anticpating the next. Tanaquil is an intriging, challenging character, easy to relate to, making any book with her presence instantly interesting. But Red Unicorn was something of a let-down. In concept, the idea of Tanaquil visiting an alternative version of her own world after being in versions of paradise and hell was brilliant. Yet somehow Lee didn't execute Red Unicorn with her usual level of skill. I found myself wanting Tanaquil to get her adventures with her double, Tanakil, over with so I could find out what happened to Honj, and when he did appear, the end result was unsatisfying. However, if you did read and enjoy Black Unicorn and Gold Unicorn, it's defintely worth a read, if not quite as good of a read as the previous books.
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Summary: Charming!
Review: Most books like these would have me in disgust, but something about the entire zany book had me hooked! I absolutely love the peeve, as I did in the other books, and while less realistic than other fantasy novels it's written with a light airy flow and to me flows like some od dream. I was totally charmed! :)
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: Tanith Lee should be given credit for her handling of an old cliché - that of an alternate reality, where everything is the opposite - with style and flair. Unfortunately, I was left with the feeling that the journey to the alternate world was completely unnecessary. Tanaquil did not learn anything she did not already know in the Real World. So while enjoyable, Red Unicorn is actually quite pointless.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: Tanith Lee should be given credit for her handling of an old cliché - that of an alternate reality, where everything is the opposite - with style and flair. Unfortunately, I was left with the feeling that the journey to the alternate world was completely unnecessary. Tanaquil did not learn anything she did not already know in the Real World. So while enjoyable, Red Unicorn is actually quite pointless.
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Summary: Fantasy, or much, much, much more?
Review: The 'Red Unicorn' is the best book that I have ever read.If you like fantasy books like I do, you will love it as well, but even if you don't, I think that you will still find this to be one of the best books ever written.
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