Xanth · Book 36
Luck of the Draw
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 350
- ISBN-13
- 9780765331359
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 36th Xanth novel, Luck of the Draw appeared in 2012, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 350 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Luck of the Draw is book 36 in the Xanth series. It follows Well-Tempered Clavicle. It is followed by Esrever Doom. 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 9780765331359