![]() ![]() ![]() Prince Lir goes off to perform great feats to win the heart of the Lady Amalthea, because heroic deeds by princes make women swoon and it’s the only way he knows to make her love him. The unicorn insists that she is the only thing that is real because she can’t die Molly Gure and Schmendrick have questioned their reality at some point in the book and Prince Lir says, “Was none of it real at all? Am I real, then?”īesides questioning existence, the characters quite often remark on how it is the way of the fairy tale. Mostly it was the language usage that took getting used to, and how meta and existential it was. While only 250 pages long, it took me a while to get into the story. I swear I could hear America playing in the background. ![]() As I was reading, I could hear the lines spoken as they were in the movie: the huntsman, the butterfly, Mommy Fortuna, Rukh, Molly Grue. This book review was part of a podcast discussion.Ī unicorn in her wood wonders the fate of her kind and decides to search for them. ![]()
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