Xanth · Book 44
Skeleton Key
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9781504060301
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 44th Xanth novel, Skeleton Key appeared in 2021, 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 310 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Skeleton Key is book 44 in the Xanth series. It follows Jest Right. It is followed by A Tryst of Fate. 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 9781504060301