Not one of Anthony's best works

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	• Under a Velvet Cloak (Incarnations of Immortality, Book 8) Piers Anthony Mundania Press LLC, 2007 - 228 pages view larger image
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Not one of Anthony's best works

Under a Velvet Cloak tells the story of the girl who will eventually become Nox, The Incarnation of Night. It starts out in the Middle Ages, and goes all the way up to modern times. However it almost very quickly develops into a soft porn novel. Like the sixth book of the series, For Love of Evil, this book tells the events we are familiar with from Nox's point of view. We find out the origin of the taint on Gawain's family. All in all the book wasn't that bad but it could have been better.

Short, and thankfully so

When I saw an 8th book in the Incarnations of Immortality had been released, I was ecstatic. Piers is one of my top fave authors, and Incarnations is one of my favorite series of his.

That said, the 8th volume seems to have limped into existence. Primarily obsessed with sex (no surprise from Piers, yet still more so than ever before), it essentially adds a tiny bit of detail and back story to the series while recapping the events, or at least the origins of the events, of the previous 7 books.

It also explains the events of the previous 7 in a way that mutes the accomplishments of every prior protagonist as simply a manipulation of the latest.

Three stars overall if you're a superfan such as myself. Two at best if not. I'm not sad to have read it, but I'll be passing it on to another fan, not keeping it in my collection.

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