Anthony tied the series up pretty well, but drug it out in doing so. Not my favorite of the series. ( )

last in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series.

crucial to feel like the series gets wrapped up in a neat little package. typical of Piers Anthony in terms of the slightly pedophiliac tendencies of his characters.

harmless and amusing. ( )

The end of a series that solidified my love of magic/myth-heavy fiction. While not as good as the earlier books (Pale Horse and Hourglass, especially), it was a reasonable end that tied most things up well. ( )

I used to love reading Piers Anthony. I started in the mid eighties, reading all of the Xanth, Blue Adept and Incarnations of Immortality series. Somewhere around book 14 of Xanth, I got sort of a creepy feeling reading his books. The stories seemed to focus more and more on panties and young teens discovering sex in a very childlike manner. The final Blue adept book made me uncomfortable for the same reasons.

However, this book blew me away. One of the characters in the book was a judge in his mid 50s. He takes a 12 year old prostitute and has her live at his house. He writes several paragraphs about struggling with being sexually attracted to her. Then he writes several more paragraphs justifying his attraction even though it is illegal, he was a judge AND she was put into his home for protective custody so she would not be in sexual situations with adults. It reminded me of some writings I've seen for NAMBLA. And then he decides that they can have a consensual sexual relationship. And they have lots of sex-- and call each other cutsie names.

After reading this book, I felt dirty. I also quit reading Piers Anthony books. ( )

God is bloody slack.

It appears that the Incarnation of Good is not doing his job properly. When a descendant of one of the other characters in the series finds out her kid is on a trip to Hell, she decides the whole thing is flawed.

With a few others, she decides to do something about it.

Easily the worst of this series, as the Incarnation basically is non-existent. He also appears to be doing sweet FA, so a movement starts for impeachment to get rid of him.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/07... ( )