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Feeling neglected because her sorceress mother is enamored with a flamboyant magician and her sister, Emperess Lizra, is infatuated with her own true love, Tanaquil is drawn into another world in which her mirror self is plotting to murder her sister.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Lavish, whimsical dreamscapes reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, though without Carroll's elegant subtlety, mark Lee's third Unicorn novel (after Gold Unicorn, 1994). Princess Tanaquil is a daughter of the sorceress Jaive, who all but ignores her in favor of her husband-to-be, the sorcerer Worabex. Tanaquil's sister Lizra, meanwhile, is about to marry Tanaquil's beloved Honj, a soldier. Tanaquil works out her anger at her mother and her sister through an adventure in a parallel universe. Lee portrays Tanaquil's family angst with skill, but ubiquitous random events and characters whose eccentricities do nothing to further the story undermine her attempts to create mood. Even the resolution and the title figure, the Red Unicorn, a largely metaphorical presence, seem arbitrarily drawn. The psychology is preposterously simplistic and forced, with little moralisms substituting for insight. The whole novel feels carelessly tossed off and not what you'd expect from a World Fantasy Award winner. Still, the basic setup of the mirror world, where Tanaquil sees her own life in a diffracted form that enables her to understand and redeem it, is a good one, though hardly original. Lee's charming exuberance is everywhere in evidence too, no more so than in Tanaquil's familiar, a wonderfully comic, cavorting beasty. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Gr. 7^-10. In the third and weakest of Lee's Unicorn series, Tanaquil is in the wrong place at the wrong time and recovers consciousness in an alternate world ruled by Sulkan Liliam (her sister Lizra's double), whose murder is being plotted by Princess Tanakil (Tanaquil's double). It's all a bit ludicrous, with only flashes of the wit found in the first two books (Black Unicorn [1991]) and (Gold Unicorn [1995]), and very unconvincing, particularly when a red unicorn shows up at an opportune moment to carry Tanakil and Tanaquil to a place where they can make peace and resolve their problems. Purchase only if fans of the first two books are clamoring for the third. --Sally Estes

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Tanith Lee, September 19, 1947 - May 24, 2015 Tanith Lee was born on September 19, 1947 in London, England, the daughter of ballroom dancers. She attended various primary schools and had a variety of jobs, from file clerk and assistant librarian to shop assistant and waitress. Lee attended an art college for one year, but felt she would be better writing her ideas than painting them.

Her first professional sale was "Eustace," a 90 page vignette which appeared in The Ninth Pan Book of Horror Stories in 1968. While Lee was working as an assistant librarian, she wrote a children's story that was accepted for publication. Others of her stories were also bought but never published. In 1971, Macmillan published "The Dragon Hoard," another children's book, which was followed by "Animal Castle" and "Princess Hynchatti and Other Stories" in 1972.

Lee was looking for a British publisher for her book "The Birthgrave," but was denied at every House she went. She then wrote to American publisher DAW, known for it's fantasy and horror selections, who immediately accepted her manuscript and published the book in 1975. Thus began a partnership between the two that lasted till 1989 and resulted in 28 books. After the publication of her third book by DAW, Lee quit her job and became a full-time freelance writer.

Lee has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the August Derleth Award and the Nebula. She has had more than 40 novels published, along with over 200 short stories.

Lee died peacefully in her sleep after a long illness on May 24, 2015.

(Bowker Author Biography)