Xanth · Book 45
A Tryst of Fate
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9781504066785
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Tryst of Fate (2021) is one of the self-contained quest novels that make up Xanth, Piers Anthony's pun-titled comic fantasy series where magic talents, centaurs, and increasingly elaborate wordplay drive nearly every plot. It runs 312 pages.
Its place in Xanth
A Tryst of Fate is book 45 in the Xanth series. It follows Skeleton Key. It is followed by Six Crystal Princesses. See the full Xanth reading order.
Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781504066785