Well-Tempered Clavicle by Piers Anthony, 320 pages
“Picka Bones and his
sister Joy'nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures newly arrived
from Mundania--and not the sort of creatures you might expect! Join them in a
madcap quest, in this 35th tale of the land of Xanth.” The author revealed
in the note at the end that his daughter dies while he was writing this book
and wasn’t sure if it had the same quality as the previous books. I did not think that the story suffered, but
the editing left a lot to be desired.
There were a lot of small mistakes that should have been caught and
corrected because they were distracting, but overall, this was still a fun
story and fans of Xanth won’t want to miss it.
Fantasy fans who are new to Xanth should start at the beginning anyway,
but this is not the book to start with if they are jumping in to a later book.
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