Not the most enjoyable in the series, but worth a read

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	• With a Tangled Skein (Book Three of Incarnations of Immortality) Piers Anthony Del Rey, 1986 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not the most enjoyable in the series, but worth a read

What if death, time, fate, war, nature, evil and good were not mere concepts but offices held by actual people, like any other occupation?

Although initially opposed to her arranged marriage to a 16-year old, 21-year-old Niobe accepts and eventually grows to love her husband Cedric. When Cedric sacrifices his life in place of a death that was meant for her, Niobe, heartbroken, accepts an invitation to become Clotho, the youngest aspect of the immortal incarnation of Fate, whose responsibility it is to weave the threads in the great tapestry of life. While learning her new role, Niobe also learns that she herself has become entangled in the insidious plots of Satan, the incarnation of Evil.

I haven't enjoyed books 2 and 3 nearly as well as On a Pale Horse, the first in the series.

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Husband stands in on wife's killing, she becomes part of Fate.

A woman's husband learns that she will die, and arranges that he will instead. She discovers later that this is a plot of that evil Satan bloke.

The Fates are a tripartite entity, and she gives up the first job, and is invited to the next after spending some time as a mortal again. This repeats, as she gets involved with stopping S*tan plots.

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Good Incarnations book

While not the best of the Incarnations series, it is still a solid read - but then, the entire Incarnations series (if you don't count book 8) are all great reads. This was actually the second book I read (after Being a Green Mother, both books I read about 10 years ago) so I was a bit confused with some of the events. But now having read books 1 and 2, I can appreciate and understand this book much better.

The idea of three women having to share one body at all times is daunting. I can understand sharing it in the mortal world, but it seems that in the magical world or their home on the web, it seemed more logical to me that they should be able to separate into three bodies to conduct their respective duties more efficiently. Still, this is a great book, and a solid addition to the Incarnations series, with the usual mix of comedy and philosophy/thought-provoking passages (and outsmarting Satan himself).

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Woah.

I've read book 1,2, and 3. This book series is great, but I think this book is the best. To those of you that haven't, read it.

Fated to greatness [no spoilers]

"With A Tangled Skein" continues the "Incarnations of Immortality" series as Niobe confronts her father about an arranged marriage to Cedric Kaftan. A charming romance and improved character development advance the series satisfactorily surrounded by cheap behavior of regularly narrow-minded male and silly female figures. In addition, one finds the characteristic vocabulary and extended logical reasoning as in most fast-paced Piers Anthony narratives. An unrelenting confrontation against Satan's designs and the ingenious influence of Fate could have weaved an exceptionally interwoven novel.

As with the prior novel, a separate Incarnation (combining the three Aspects of Fate - Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) propels the action while interfacing among the additional primary Incarnations. Chronos changing office reveals an enlightening experience, conducted in a captivating approach. A few smart yet outrageous situated puzzles challenge the reader preceding the solution.

Meanwhile other chapters appear quite ridiculous, approaching Gaea's residence and the maze in the final chapters. Living people interact among the Incarnations as a part of normal life with little surprise. And the youngest Aspect of Fate, Clotho, debases herself too casually.

I recommend this series to any fan of the fantasy genre. However those of a highly inflexible religious background or intolerant attitude towards religion might want to avoid the selection.

Thank you.

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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!

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