

Wielding a Red Sword
Author: Piers Anthony
Series: Incarnations of Immortality #4
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 07/10/2007
Author: Piers Anthony
Series: Incarnations of Immortality #4
Narrator: George Guidall
Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 07/10/2007
Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Magic of Xanth series, many of which are New York Times bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as Bio of a Space Tyrant, and others.
Took me so long to read because I couldn't bring myself to want to put myself through the misery. Characters are slightly more developed here than in other books, but this one reeks with racism (unfair, one-dimensional stereotypes of Indians), sexism (woman's suffrage is taught to the poor, backward......more
Book # 4 of The Incarnations series is about the Incarnation of War, Mars. Another wonderful addition to this series. It follows Mym, who is forced to leave a woman he loves in order to marry another woman; all in the name of what's best for his country. Then after he falls in love with this second w......more
"War, properly managed, was certainly better than the alternatives of oppression or dispossession." Mym may have been raised as a prince in India, but his chronic stutter is an embarrassment to his Royal Family. He runs away to join a circus and falls for the singer Orb, the daughter of Fate and sis......more
Not the best in this series, but still very good at 4/5 stars. Some books in this series were bound to be better than others but it's all good, and this book does not disappoint even if it's a bit repetitive in some parts. However, the philosophical discussions between Mars and Satan are to be consi......more