With a Tangled Skein
by:
Piers Anthony (author)
When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's. Hoping for revenge, she discovered, too late, how intricate his scheming was, and that he had managed to trap her son and her granddaughter, Luna. Niobe's only chance to save them was to...
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When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's. Hoping for revenge, she discovered, too late, how intricate his scheming was, and that he had managed to trap her son and her granddaughter, Luna. Niobe's only chance to save them was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit--a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345318855 (0345318854)
ASIN: 345318854
Publish date: April 1990
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 405
Edition language: English
Series: Incarnations of Immortality (#3)
*Book source ~ My home library Niobe is 21 and her father finally puts his foot down and arranges a marriage for her to 16-yr-old Cedric Kaftan. No matter how much she cries and argues her father doesn’t waver in his stance, so she ends up married to Cedric. After a rocky beginning they make a go ...
Huzzah! Another Incarnation fouls Satan! I'm really beginning to like these books. I just wish he didn't write about women in such a terrible light.
It’s definitely a step-up from Bearing an Hourglass, but the third book in the series still struggles to match the first. Sort of a prequel, the plot starts a couple generations earlier in the Kaftan family. Fate, meanwhile, weaves and shapeshifts through Satan’s ploys.Writing the book through the...
As with the earlier books in the series: not as good as I remembered. But I will finish my re-read!
Once again this series seems to be more intriguing that many of Anthony's other books and does show that he has the ability to weave a good story. I may sound corne using the term weave in this context (as I will explain) but while I would hesitate to read it again, I guess my friend was right when ...
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