Name: Ariel
ISBN: 9780441017942

Steven R. Boyett

Five years after an apocalyptic event that transformed the Earth's survivors into magical creatures, loner Pete Garey nurses an injured unicorn back to health and is forced to protect her from a necromancer who would harness the unicorn's powers, in a revised release with a restored chapter. Original.

A Book of the Change

Ariel

Steven Boyett

Hmm...once I'd suppressed my fear that the main character would try and shag the unicorn, I felt a lot better. 

Things I liked: 
Ariel's matter of fact and direct attitude. She's a very practical unicorn for the most part. Although this was a close DNF, I'd say she saved it. Also the ending, despite everything. 

Things I hated: 
Everything else. Being in love with a unicorn, the unicorn getting all "womanly" and jealous when another woman comes in, all the samurai bollocks, the dragon storyline that seemed pointless, treatment of women(which could be worse, I know) the fact I felt like I was reading a Stephen King book the entire time, the fucking hanggliding - YAWN - etc etc. Sodding off to Washington and pissing about. anyway, the past is another country. Old fantasy and science fiction loves to remind you of that.

Ariel A Book of the Change