Meredith Rae's Reviews > Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief (Skandar #1)
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i feel like a round of applause is in order, for i have finally finished this burning pile of garbage.
there is genuinely too many things wrong with this book for me to fully list them out, but in short it felt unfinished, the writing felt as if the author thought 13 year olds were stupid, and the world building/magic system explanations were essentially nonexistent leaving a lot of questions that arose that can’t be answered. i hate this book and i feel sorry for anyone who so much as picks it up to read the synopsis.
there is genuinely too many things wrong with this book for me to fully list them out, but in short it felt unfinished, the writing felt as if the author thought 13 year olds were stupid, and the world building/magic system explanations were essentially nonexistent leaving a lot of questions that arose that can’t be answered. i hate this book and i feel sorry for anyone who so much as picks it up to read the synopsis.
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Reading Progress
June 2, 2023
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Started Reading
June 2, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
June 2, 2023
– Shelved
June 3, 2023
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7.59%
"i realize that reading this book feels like i’m reading a level 3 beginning readers book that was meant for a 7 year old and not a middle grade book meant for like a 10 year old"
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34
June 3, 2023
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12.05%
"i feel like this whole business of “Someone from this random unicorn society will come to your house at midnight to take your child to a magical unicorn island” obsession would lead to at least multiple kidnappings throughout the years"
page
54
June 4, 2023
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15.63%
"the fact he named the helicopters after Santa’s raindeers are getting too much, from the start i knew this dude was wack with the naming but i can’t"
page
70
June 4, 2023
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18.75%
"i can’t believe the people on the island were like “wow we have a lot of dangerous unicorns…. let’s bond with them and then make them do F1 racing so they don’t kill us all”"
page
84
June 5, 2023
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27.46%
"*unicorn’s blaze is white* “i wonder what color the spirit element is… i don’t want to find out”
im sorry— are you dumb?"
page
123
im sorry— are you dumb?"
June 5, 2023
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28.35%
"if skandar mentions being excited about mayonnaise one more fucking time i will scream in the middle of this car service center im sitting in."
page
127
June 5, 2023
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30.36%
"listen, im not saying that the voting system we have is great, bc let’s be honest here it’s awful, BUT THE LEADER OF THE ISLAND IS WHOEVER WINS AN A RACE IS? listen that’s like taking the last F1 winner and putting them as president i—"
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136
June 5, 2023
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40.0%
"… he was worried… that the magical unicorn island wouldn’t have mayonnaise??? i hate this book"
June 6, 2023
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44.87%
"you’re telling me that the entire choice of who goes to this magical unicorn island is bASED OFF OF MAGIC AND DESTINY? THE TEST JUST ACTS AS A VIBE CHECK FOR THE KIDS? IM INFURIATED"
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201
June 6, 2023
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62.0%
"how can you have kept track that there are THREE spirit wielders out of prison but only have accounted TWO and still wonder who the weaver is?
ALSO why do you lock an “oh so dangerous” book with an “oh so dangerous” woman? make that make sense??"
ALSO why do you lock an “oh so dangerous” book with an “oh so dangerous” woman? make that make sense??"
June 7, 2023
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78.0%
"if you are so scared that spirit wielders are bad and you hear that the most powerful one jumps off of a cliff, are you not gonna check that they’re actually dead?"
June 7, 2023
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Finished Reading
January 29, 2024
– Shelved as:
wish-i-hadnt-read