SilverStar’s Reviews > The Last Unicorn > Status Update

For the Unicorn, for the first time, I’m actually afraid. He didn’t seem that scary the first time I read it, but my God. It’s got an entirely new aura somehow. I swear the font and cover and care that is put into producing a book is just as important as the book itself. It literally shapes everything about how the book is seen and perceived and read. This is a wretchedly beautiful and serious story, and I never would have seen it if I hadn’t bought the old, beautiful first edition. (Or older edition). Idk why, I just completely lost everything that was special and beautiful and enthralling and humorous about this book because of that weird, hideous new printing of it. The font is WRETCHED, the cover is mid and unmagical (which, truthfully, really sets the tone). In all honesty it’s presented like baby food and that’s exactly how I opened my literary jaws for it: but this. THIS is a sword laid on a velvet pillow in my hands. This is— baby this is THE LAST UNICORN. RAWWWWW 🦄
Anyway. I digress. I dislike baby food. (Or presentations of it). The language is much more digestible and understandable when it’s taken seriously.
(Which this book formatting does).
(As a last note, I of course exclude the forward by Pat Rothfuss that made me cry when I first read it. He’s the only one in the world who can write like two pages of words and make me cry. One page, even. The only one in the WORLD I would accept to introduce me to a book. He was actually why I started reading it in the first place. So somewhere and sometime in the future, I must thank him).
(As much as I love this book, his is still my favorite in all the world).