false 76664 034525855X 9780345258557 3757 267 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179543785m/76664.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76664.A_Spell_for_Chameleon 8516 Piers Anthony 89422 2111 5 0 false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 27 06:19:16 -0700 2008 Mon May 25 07:53:23 -0700 2009
What seems like a fun, light fantasy novel on the surface, actually made me take a look at my own life. The main character, Bink, will be expelled from the magical land of Xanth (which looks a lot like a southern US state) unless he can find out what his magical power is, if he has one. He sets out to see the Good Magician Humfrey, and has companions on his journey along the way, including a very pretty yet dumb girl, an average girl, and ugly but smart girl, (he later falls in love with at least one of them), a soldier that hates women, centaurs, and even the Evil Magician Trent.

If there's a moral to this book, it's that no one is who they seem, that they may be a better person than you expected. It's a common and simple enough lesson, but there lies a deeper meaning, whether or not the author actually intended it. In the book we learn that many of the things that happened along Bink's journey were not just coincidences, and you could even consider them fate. Bink also finds the perfect place for him in Xanth society. Upon finishing this book, it made me examine my own life, and whether I had been ignoring some of my own coincidences. I wondered whether there really was a perfect place for me in the grand scheme of things, and what talents I may be suppressing.]]>