Wielding a Red Sword
by:
Piers Anthony (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299038677 (1299038670)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Edition language: English
Series: Incarnations of Immortality (#4)
*Book source ~ My home library Mym is a Prince who stutters. Since he has an older brother who will inherit the throne he finally runs away to join a traveling circus. He starts out doing menial labor, but soon works up to being one of the main attractions as Mym the Mime. He and Orb Kaftan, the m...
It’s a clever twist, making Mym a Hindu and interjecting him into the occidental role of Mars. And it works. The series was becoming (and still is) somewhat predictable at this point- mortal becomes immortal, meets other immortals and then has some interaction with Satan. However, Mym’s outside ...
As with the earlier books in the series: not as good as I remembered. But I will finish my re-read!
It seems that in his way Anthony is attempting political commentary in his novels. Having (unfortunately) read quite a lot of his works, this is something that he does seem to do, however, I would have to add, not in a really good way. Anthony is first and foremost a science-fiction/fantasy writer, ...
This is Mars, the god of wars story. Like the others of the series (why can't Piers break the mold?) this book starts with his story of what he was before war and what caused him to become war. But this book brought nothing new to the series, it was just the same thing as always. He becomes a Incarn...
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