Review: #876
Title: The Secret of the Unicorn
Series: The Adventures of Tintin – 11th book
Author: Herge
Comments: This is one of Tintin’s greatest mysteries yet. As he frequents the markets, he stumbles across a ship replica and decides to buy it on a whim. This sets a series of events, and a heaping of coincidences, into tracking down all three clues to find a lost hidden treasure. While it has an interesting premise, this is only a prequel and set up for the next book in the series (the ending even shamelessly plugs it). By the end of the book, you feel as if we have just done a completely 360 as Tintin was pretty close to where he had begun, after wandering around all over the place. The sheer luck of some of the events cannot be overstated and while that is a trademark of this series, you can’t help but wish the plot could have been a bit tighter.
Rating: 6/10