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The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn

by Peter S. Beagle
Ace: Berkley. Apr. 2023. 224p. ISBN 9780593547397. $27. FANTASY
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This collection, set in the world of the author’s fantasy classic The Last Unicorn, serves as a coda to that beloved story. Of the two novellas in this book, the first (the previously published Two Hearts) won both the Hugo and the Nebula for bringing back Schmendrick the Magician and Molly Grue in their journey to escort a now elderly King Lir from his castle to save a young girl’s village from a terrible monster, giving him one last bright and glorious day in the sun. The second story, the previously unpublished Sooz, carries on the tradition of this magical world by taking the girl whom Lir rescued in Two Hearts and giving her a story of her own, a tale of changelings, lost sisterhood, and the terrible price that the fae enact for the children they steal, and especially for the ones they want to keep.
VERDICT A lovely duology that invokes the charm of The Last Unicorn while extending the magic of the original into a bigger world. Highly recommended for lovers of Beagle’s classic, who are legion.
Reviewed by Marlene Harris , Mar 01, 2023
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