SOURCE: A review of The Innkeeper's Song, in Locus, September, 1993, pp. 23-4.

In the review below, Wolfe compares The Innkeeper's Song to Beagle's earlier works and concludes that The Last Unicorn is Beagle's best fantasy but that The Innkeeper's Song is his best novel.

A couple of months ago, Peter Beagle said in a Locus interview that The Last Unicorn might well go on dominating his work, and he's probably right: it became an instant classic for its grace, wit, complexity, and accessibility. It's not surprising that many readers, including myself, found 1987's The Folk of the Air a little thin by comparison with what we'd hoped for after such a long wait. By now, Beagle must certainly be accustomed to readers wanting another Unicorn, just as Woody Allen has to live with fans who want him to do more funny movies. His new novel, The Innkeeper's Song...