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Tanaquil, a young mender, and her familiar come face to face with her half-sister, Lizra, who forces Tanaquil to make a perilous choice between siding with Lizra in her quest for conquest or risking her terrible anger.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 6-10‘In this sequel to Black Unicorn (Atheneum, 1991), readers rejoin Tanaquil after a year of travel has broadened her knowledge of the world and of herself. Coming to terms with her gift for sorcery, the teen finds herself in the midst of a war between a conquering Empress and the lands she is besieging. The Empress, who turns out to be Tanaquil's misguided half-sister, has built a mechanical golden unicorn. Tanaquil senses its evil nature but cannot deny her gift; she breathes ``life'' into it, only to find that she has helped create a war machine. The plot then follows the golden beast into war, eventually leading Tanaquil into an unpleasant alternate world that is virtually the opposite of the perfect world she had discovered in the previous book. This novel is not as captivating or as smoothly constructed as the first one. However, readers who enjoyed that title will want to continue following the heroine's adventures, and Lee does introduce some new and interesting characters. Although the immediate conflicts are resolved, there is definitely room for a third volume. A foreword summarizes Black Unicorn.‘Susan L. Rogers, Chestnut Hill Academy, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 7-10. Lee's sequel to Black Unicorn (1991) continues the adventures of 16-year-old Tanaquil, runaway daughter of an idiosyncratic sorceress. Here, the young mender and her familiar, a spirited, intelligent peeve, are taken captive by a band of soldiers that is part of the army of Empress Veriam, who is intent upon conquering the world and rendering it "perfect," with a law for everything. To Tanaquil's complete astonishment, the empress, rumored "conqueror and child-eater," is her 16-year-old, half-sister, Lizra. To further her cause, Lizra has had constructed a huge, mechanical, gold-plated unicorn as a symbol of her power, but the unicorn doesn't work, and Lizra bades Tanaquil to mend it. A great part of the story follows the advancing army as it pursues the conquering of all the lands. However, the unicorn turns out to be far more than a machine of war; it proves to be a gate to an alternate world, where war is king and the fallen rise on the morrow to fight yet again. Although the story drags in places as the empress wages war, the scenes in the alternate, Inferno-like world are mesmerizing and scary; there is enough humor to leaven the whole, and the conclusion is open to yet another sequel. Not a starting place but an appealing story for readers of the first fantasy. ~--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)