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I was a much bigger fan of Piers Anthony as a teen; before his Xanth series started getting obviously ephebophilic. However, I do still think at least the first few books in his Incarnations of Immortality are worth reading.
Zane has just about hit bottom - no money, no family, no romantic prospects.... after throwing away his last chance he plans to commit suicide. At the last moment, he instead kills Death. Rather, the Incarnation of Death, a role held by a human, one of 5 different Incarnatio ...more
Zane has just about hit bottom - no money, no family, no romantic prospects.... after throwing away his last chance he plans to commit suicide. At the last moment, he instead kills Death. Rather, the Incarnation of Death, a role held by a human, one of 5 different Incarnatio ...more
Coming back to this series as an adult... it's crap.
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This is the first book that I abandoned in over a year. The plot per se was quite intriguing - the man who killed Death and became Reaper himself - but it wasn't enough to carry a whole novel. It would have been a great short story but as it is, it just drags on and on and on. Or maybe I'm just too old for it already. Might be.
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