WELCOME TO DECEMBER PROJECT!last year, i carved out my own short story advent calendar as my project for december, and it was so much fun i decided to do it again this year! so, each day during the month of december, i will be reading a short story and doing the barest minimum of a review because ain't no one got time for that and i'm already so far behind in all the things. however, i will be posting story links in case anyone wants to read the stories themselves and show off how maybe someone

This was a fun little add on to The Last Unicorn that delves back into the story with some old and some new friends. A couple parts are very heartfelt so be prepared for a few tears. Definitely worth the read!

Peter S Beagle has been very reluctant to write a sequel to his best novel, THE LAST UNICORN, and with very good reason. The original story was a fable, with phrases and images so lyrical as to be near-poetry. The characters were "real" in that we could easily identify with them, yes, but they were archetypes. They exist in a timeless, mythical world that is only faintly attached to ours.This novella makes them into real people, Schmendrick and Molly and Lir and the unicorn, and drew them down t...

Anyway, Schmendrick and I aren't married. We're together, that's all. We've been together quite a long while.This was nice. Just like The Last Unicorn. So pure and beautiful and very melancholic.

Two Hearts is a 36-page story that follows up on the novel The Last Unicorn. I had just finished reading The Last Unicorn last night and I liked it ok but wasn’t really wowed by it and I had trouble getting into the story at first. This short story, on the other hand, drew me in right away and I really enjoyed it.The story takes places many years after the events of The Last Unicorn and is told from the perspective of a nine-year-old girl named Sooz whose village is being terrorized by a griffin...

Oh, god. Read in privacy and with tissues handy. It's a beautiful, perfect story, but it will break your heart.The full text of the story is freely available here.Related Reviews:The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version by Peter S. BeagleThe Last Unicorn: The Graphic Novel adapted by Peter Gillis from the original text by Peter S. Beagle, art by Renae De Liz and Ray Dillon

Easy 5 stars for this award-winning novelette, a coda to "The Last Unicorn." If you missed it, you have a treat in store. Free copy at the author's website: http://www.peterbeagle.com/works/shor... On the re-read list. As fine a story as anything he's written, I think.

a lovely little coda to the last unicorn.tugs at your heartstrings, but also puts a layer of realism over the original fairytale that not everybody might want to read. RTC!✎ 4.0 stars.

I enjoyed this short story more than the original novel - probably because I really loved the main character, a young girl named Sooz. And the original characters of Schmendrick, Molly Grue and King Lir seemed more interesting this time.

I think I liked this short story even better than the book.

A short-but-sweet return to the world of "The Last Unicorn", told from the perspective of a young girl who goes off on a quest for help in defeating a griffin terrorizing her village. In doing so, she meets some people familiar to those who've read the first book, and the reader finds that the years have not been equally kind nor fair to these beloved characters. It's sad and beautiful, and ties back into the themes of the first book -- time and agelessness, harsh reality and the wonder of story...

My copy has an introduction by Connor Cochran, and knowing about the legal battles that have been going on between him and Beagle, I felt slightly sick to read that: About how this continuation of The Last Unicorn was all Cochran's idea, promised to be released before it was discussed with the author himself. Cochran plays himself as a sort of hero to convince Beagle to write a sequel after so many decades of saying no. The story itself is enjoyable enough. It's written from the first person per...

My brother Wilfrid keeps saying it's not fair that it should all have happened to me. Me being a girl, and a baby, and too stupid to lace up my own sandals properly. But I think it's fair. I think everything happened exactly the way it should have done. Except for the sad parts, and maybe those too. Two Hearts marks the long awaited return of the author to the world of The Last Unicorn. The action takes places decades after the events in the classic book, and is told through the eyes of Sooz

Mr Beagle wrote this sequel decades after The Last Unicorn. Those who loved the last unicorn will like this as well - we meet Shmendrick, Molly, Lir and the unicorn (this time in a less exposed role) again and find out that Lir is now old and senile. The story is told from the POV of a nine year old girl whose village is devastated by a griffin. That's why the girl asks King Lir to help and he has to set out for his last heroic deed. Of course, he knows that griffins have two hearts which is the...

ahhh ... really good. I didn't love The Last Unicorn, but I loved Two Hearts!

Poor Lir. It isn't a Last Unicorn tale if he doesn't die. Overall it was great. Short, but enchanting.

read it 'cause I was curious...and found it an odd way to end the tale of Lir and the Last Unicorn.

The Last Unicorn is my favorite book. Ever. Of all time. Full stop. It started with the movie. I saw the movie a thousand times as a child and only as an adult read the book. But it was so breathtaking. It was the type of story that changed me. Today, when I discovered that there was a coda to the story, a short follow-up written by Mr. Beagle several years ago, I was excited and nervous. Terrified, maybe. Because not every follow-up is actually any good. In fact, it often differs so wildly with...

4.5 stars. An unexpectedly good sequel, with some real heart, though not as fantastic as the original. I really liked the idea of telling the story from the perspective of a child, and I think Beagle did a great job with Sooz’s voice in particular (though I found her name distractingly dumb). I’m still digesting this and collecting my thoughts, so I’ll likely include further details on it in my review of Beagle’s collection THE LINE BETWEEN, which I’m currently (3/13/2020) reading and in which t...

Pure magic. It's incredible how the author manages, in so few words, to evoke the weight of everything that happened in The Last Unicorn and continue building on those themes and relationships.