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Red Unicorn (Starscape)

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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.

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!

In all honesty this third book felt rushed, like Tanith Lee was told to spit out another book solely for the monetary value and to heck with the quality. The Red Unicorn seemed to rip off parts and basic premise from the Wizard of Oz, Alice In Wonderland and the Labyrinth all in one fell swoop. Tanaqil behaves like an angsty, whiny teenager in response to her difficulties in life, a direct contrast to her behavior in the first two books. I was left at the end of the book with a raised eyebrow and had to confirm that yes this was the same author for the same series I had so dearly loved in the earlier books.

though i found this book in the young adult section of the library i think that it works well for all ages. This a great trilogy - especially if you are looking for a fun light read.

In a wonderful yet, oddly less satisfying end to this brilliant trilogy, love prevails without being spoken. Good for peeve. Sad for us. All I can think of is 'Spuff'!, it's over.

Jenny L. Bates, author "Opening Doors: an equilog of poetry about Donkeys"

I really had a great time reading this whole serious-I especially liked the way it ended, it's also a very easy read. I highly recommend this book and this series!!

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.

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.

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! :)

The day I found TheRed Unicorn was when my book to have for a book report was due. I had never heard of Tanith but, of the few weeks it took me to read it I was so amazed. I never did like to read but after I had read Red Unicorn I now can't keep my eyes out of my books. In my reading class I am recieving an A thanks to Tanith Lee. If he hadn't wrote this book I would probally be getting an F on my book report and Reading class. Agian I thank you and I will soon read many of your other books. God has givin you a great gift. Don't be afraid to use it.