The Third Virgin is reminiscent of Peter S. The Third Virgin (Kathleen Duey): This is probably my favorite of the unicorn stories. This is another one I wouldn’t mind seeing as a novella. Princess Prettypants (Meg Cabot): Take a bunch of teens dealing with typical teen problems and throw in a rainbow farting unicorn. Beware of the abrupt ending, though I would love to see this one continued as a novella! The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn (Diana Peterfreund): Though the premise sounds a bit ridiculous, the story pulls it off spectacularly. Though there is a very confusing jump between first person narrators, this is a wonderful story that is as mysterious as it is haunting. With protagonists like a sarcastic unicorn and a supposed “virgin”, Purity Test hilariously lampshades fairy tale tropes and clichés.Ī Thousand Flowers (Margo Lanagan): The first “dark” unicorn story in the anthology. Purity Test (Naomi Novik): While The Highest Justice is a very traditional story, Purity Test is purposefully as untraditional as possible. Ultimately, it is a very solid story that has a more traditional, high fantasy feel than some of the other stories in the anthology. The Highest Justice (Garth Nix): This story centers on the relationship between unicorns and royalty that is so often referred to in folklore. Team Zombie and Team Unicorn each have a great line-up of popular YA authors, who are listed below with a few sentences about each of their stories. While Holly (leading Team Unicorn) and Justine (leading Team Zombie) don’t have stories of their own to contribute, their joint introductions and reoccurring commentary are light-hearted and hilarious to read. The result is an imaginative anthology, a crazy mix of YA Fantasy and Horror that never fails to delight. Which is better: zombies or unicorns? In order to finally put an end to the argument, which has been raging across web forums and Youtube, the two decided to gather up the troops and have one final showdown. Unicorns is a short-story anthology compiled by Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Justine Larbalestier (Magic or Madness Trilogy) to settle the debate they’ve been having on Justine’s website since February 2007. Oh wait, your family never does that? And you’ve never heard of the Zombies vs. Then your mother, a staunch zombie supporter since Night of the Living Dead, slams the meatloaf down on the table and storms out of the room, while everyone else wearily returns to their peas and carrots. I’m sure you’re familiar with this typical family dinner scenario: everyone is seated around the table and Grampa- like Grampa always does- turns a perfectly pleasant conversation into a tirade about how under-appreciated unicorns are in modern society because of these gosh-darn kids and their obsession with brain-eating schmucks.
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