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Summary: Return to Piers
Review: When I had the privilege of reading my first book by Mr. Anthony, it was a Xanth novel fairly far along in the series at the time. Shortly thereafter, it took little effort to enter the all compelling worlds he could weave seamlessly into his works. Over time, I managed to read most of his more popular series, from the Apprentice Adept to the Incarnations of Immortality. It's fair to say that were it not for him, I might not have had a love of reading altogether. About a year or two ago, perhaps, I thought I had read some of the greatest fiction he had written. Not so. Piers weaves a seamless tale of family ties as well as his usual touch of the fantasy element going above and beyond the call of description. Something about this book had a realistic, near gritty quality to it. I found myself not only seeing the places as vividly as I have found myself in the past, but finding even the most fantastic of situations to be believable. There was a conviction to his words that lent the story a near undeniable potency, and I had no place to go but deeper. It is a story that you will live until the end, at which point the reader may find themselves looking at the world much differently than before.

Rating:
Summary: Return to Piers
Review: When I had the privilege of reading my first book by Mr. Anthony, it was a Xanth novel fairly far along in the series at the time. Shortly thereafter, it took little effort to enter the all compelling worlds he could weave seamlessly into his works. Over time, I managed to read most of his more popular series, from the Apprentice Adept to the Incarnations of Immortality. It's fair to say that were it not for him, I might not have had a love of reading altogether. About a year or two ago, perhaps, I thought I had read some of the greatest fiction he had written. Not so. Piers weaves a seamless tale of family ties as well as his usual touch of the fantasy element going above and beyond the call of description. Something about this book had a realistic, near gritty quality to it. I found myself not only seeing the places as vividly as I have found myself in the past, but finding even the most fantastic of situations to be believable. There was a conviction to his words that lent the story a near undeniable potency, and I had no place to go but deeper. It is a story that you will live until the end, at which point the reader may find themselves looking at the world much differently than before.