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  • Landover, Book 2
  • Written by: Terry Brooks
  • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
  • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Black Unicorn

Written by: Terry Brooks
Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
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Publisher's Summary

A year had passed since Ben Holiday bought the Magic Kingdom from the wizard Meeks, who had set a series of pitfalls against him. Ben survived, by the aid of three loyal friends: Questor Thews, and ill-trained wizard; Abernathy, a talking dog, the court scribe; and the lovely Willow, who sometimes had to be a tree.

But Ben had been troubled by dreams of disaster to his former partner, Miles Bennett. Yet when he returned to Earth, Ben found Miles doing splendidly.

Unknown to Ben, the dreams had been a trap by Meeks, who had returned to the Magic Kingdom as a tiny insect hidden in Ben's clothing. That first night back in Landover, Ben awoke to see Meeks gloating over him. claiming to have the medallion that could summon the mysterious knight-protector, the Paladin, and that he had cast a spell to witch appearances with Ben.

Ben found himself outcast, no longer recognized by any friend, though all his powerful enemies seemed to know him. Without the medallion, he couldn't seek the help of the Paladin against Meeks. There was only the prism cat - whatever that might be!

And where was Willow - and the mysterious black unicorn she'd set out to find?

©1988 Terry Brooks (P)2022 Random House Audio

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  • 2023-04-17

Brilliant

It did not take me long to finish this story. The plot and characters are well rounded and I enjoyed the performance. Highly recommend.

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Could have chosen a better reader

The main character's name is 'Ben'
The reader pronounces the word 'been' as 'ben'
Ex; "Ben had ben waiting for this"
I hope Michigan has better job prospects, prehaps ruffing, or something productive. How hard would it have BEEEEN to pronounce the EE's in been?? When your story is about a man named BEN. Really.

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It’s not the best in the series, but the reader is great

The main character is very dumb and arrogant, you’d think he’d have grown in a better way since the first book.
He’s also incredibly sexist and thinks his nymph gf needs his saving all of the time. The guy can’t even make proper judgement calls to keep himself safe, let alone someone else.

I believe this improves in the later books, but I’m rereading the third one now on paper back and it’s just awful. I only decided to reread them because he wrote a new 6th book to the series. I’m instantly regretting my decision and wishing I’d kept my fond and naive memories from childhood.

I wouldn’t say characters are well developed at all, they’re incredibly basic and shallow. Jokes are also a complete dud. Apparently the shannara series are epic, but I’m no longer convinced I was to bother. Sigh

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