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The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

marlimead's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

apollo1gcw's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.0

cynbro's review

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adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

keith_weir's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

carrie_and_non's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

kleine_elster_'s review

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emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

wishfulfillment's review against another edition

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1.0

Dropping at 26% because it's not engaging me. I'm curious about how it will end, and I put off watching the movie for YEARS in order to read this, but the journey doesn't seem worth the destination.

ledlight's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

alex_watkins's review against another edition

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4.0

A lovely fairy tale. I really enjoy fantasy that explicitly lives without rules and has a sense of whimsy. This is opposed to the minute world-building found in things like LOTR and ASOIAF (and other acronymed book series). Questions like what exactly are the limits of a unicorn's powers? doesn't anyone notice that their is no winter in the unicorn's forest? If a magician can do x in situation y, why doesn't he do x in situation z? What exactly is the universe this is supposed to take place in? None of this matters, the book is magical is doesn't define magic, it is in other words a fairy tale, things happen just because. If this doesn't drive you batty then procede.

The most glaring problem with this book is how bad the cover art is. I mean look at it!

The movie is actually quite faithful to the book as the author also did the screenplay, at least from what I remember, fantastic movie btw.

I have to say I really enjoyed this book, but the unicorn really starts to annoy me. She is such a complainer, boo-hoo I'm mortal, boo-hoo I'm a unicorn again. Like hello there are more important problems like the freaking Red Bull, who is still scary to me.

trulybooked's review against another edition

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adventurous funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0