The very prolific and beloved author Piers Anthony may be best known for his Xanth series of fantasy novels, but he’s quite a talent with related genres in supernatural fiction and science fiction as well. His bestselling Incarnations of Immortality series is just the ticket for teens who’ve outgrown the Xanth series and want something a little darker and a little more thought-provoking.
On A Pale Horse (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
When Zane shot Death, he learned, too late, that he would have to assume his place, speeding over the world riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others. Sooner than he would have thought possible, Zane found himself being drawn to Satan’s plot. Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved…unless he could discover the only way out….
The first novel of the INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY series.
Amazon reviewer Kevin D. Flythe says:
“This is the first Piers Anthony book I ever read, and I read it for all the wrong reasons. I read it because the title intrigued me. I read it because it had a really cool cover. I was young and still judged many books on that basis. Fortunately, I hit the jackpot with this one. I give this book five stars because it earned each and every one of them. I can be stingy with my stars at times, but I wonder if five is enough for this one.”
Bearing An Hourglass (4/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past.
The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality–Death, Fate, War, and Nature–made him welcome.
Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good….
With A Tangled Skein (4/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
When the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil’s.
Hoping for revenge, she discovered, too late, how intricate his scheming was, and that he had managed to trap her son and her granddaughter, Luna.
Niobe’s only chance to save them was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit–a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan’s devising!
Wielding A Red Sword (4/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
Mym was a dutiful son, but rather than agree to his father’s choice for his marriage, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War, in order to ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth’s constant petty wars.
But Mym discovered that Satan was waiting to trap him, and he must now take desperate measures to outwit the evil genius who aimed to destroy the world….
Being A Green Mother (4/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
Orb had a rare gift–the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But she knew that greater magic lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things.
The quest for the Llano occupied Orb’s life. Until she met Natasha, handsome and charming, and an even finer musician.
But her mother Niobe came as an Aspect of Fire, with the news that Orb had been chosen for the role of Incarnation of Nature–The Green Mother.
But she also warned of a prophecy that Orb was to marry Evil. Could she be sure that Natasha was not really Satan, the Master of Illusion, laying a trap for her…?