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Esrever Doom (2013)

by Piers Anthony(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0765331365 (ISBN13: 9780765331366)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Xanth

review 1: There sure are a lot of mundanes getting into Xanth lately. I hope this isn't the start of a wave!This is another Demon bet (with a capital D) I kinda feel like Piers may use Demons to make certain things happen quickly. When the story line starts to fizzle and he can't figure out a way to segue into the next part of the story... Boom! in pop some "all powerful" Demons. All previous problems disappear, Status points are exchanged, and the story goes off in some new direction. Here we see a new world of Ida, Trojan's sense of humor, the land of Hades and even spend some time in the small galaxy of Fornax. Without being too much of a spoiler, I will say Piers has moved away from the idea of child sexuality, thankfully, and has kept the flirting and panty showing down so that... more it doesn't detract from the storyline. I give five stars because I remain a faithful fan of Xanth and this is another great installment to the saga. If you are not already an established fan I would recommend starting this series with some of the earlier books before diving in at the end. Xanth has become a bit set in its ways, (probably much like its creator)and may have become an aquired taste. But for those who have aquired the taste, this is just as delectable as the rest of them.
review 2: This was the 37th installment in the Xanth series. In it someone created a bomb that made ugly people attractive and attractive people ugly. A Mundanian is brought in to lead the quest to end this reversal.The Xanth series used to be fun, light-hearted, and entertaining. But it lost those features a long time ago. The books have become tiresome, the formula no longer works because it has been done into the ground, and the over-arching story line has become unecessarily bizarre. less

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