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Key to Havoc (ChroMagic #1)
Havoc is a barbarian living on the planet Charm, where technology has been lost but Magic has been found. He has the strongest gift for it, and is forced to become king of the unstable new planet.
Paperback, 496 pages
Published
May 30th 2003
by Mundania Press LLC
(first published May 2003)
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Just when I thought Piers Anthony had forever sunk into a relme of countless unoriginal (if still amusing) xanth novels at publisher behest, I came across this small print offering. In fact, I own the ebook edition, though ebooks don't seem to yet be listed on librarything (why no fictionpress search option?). For the price, this long volume, first in a series of three, is well worth purchasing. Following the adventures of a country boy forced into becoming king of a planet, It continues in Mr....more
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Piers Anthony's writings were *awesome* when I was 12, but having grown up a bit and read some more serious literature, it just doesn't stack up.
Gratuitous sex, ridiculous story, flat characters, and an apparent inability to let go of the world of Xanth (a number of things still function in a literal and punny way).
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Gratuitous sex, ridiculous story, flat characters, and an apparent inability to let go of the world of Xanth (a number of things still function in a literal and punny way).
Spoilers follow.
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Piers Anthony is, I think, a great writer with a lot of brilliant ideas, but ruins great concepts with unnecessary and gross sex to the point where sometimes I'm wondering if he's having his readers on. This book/series is one of those ruined concepts.
I'd like to believe I'm not prudish. I'm not put off by explicit details of sex in a story if they feel like they should be there. I was put off because this book, which would have stood on its own perfectly well and a lot better without the sexual...more
I'd like to believe I'm not prudish. I'm not put off by explicit details of sex in a story if they feel like they should be there. I was put off because this book, which would have stood on its own perfectly well and a lot better without the sexual...more
Billed as a sci-fi/fantasy novel, but actually a smut novel.
Good plot, interesting characters, and good writing. But, the sexual content was totally unnecessary and promotes an idealized adolescent world view.
I will not be continuing the series.
Good plot, interesting characters, and good writing. But, the sexual content was totally unnecessary and promotes an idealized adolescent world view.
I will not be continuing the series.
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Though he spent the first four years of his life in England, Piers never returned to live in his country of birth after moving to Spain and immigrated to America at age six. After graduating with a B.A. from Goddard College, he married one of his fellow students and and spent fifteen years in an assortment of professions before he began writing fiction full-time.
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