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Isle of View - Xanth 13 - Piers Anthony Book Review

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Review Summary
Chex Centaur is frightened when her son, Che goes missing. To find him, she turns to the humans, and the flying creatures. Electra and Nada have their own trouble. They are both engaged to Dolph, who must make a decision by the following week or else Electra will die!
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"Perplexed Prince Dolph, Xanth's precocious shapeshifter, should be in love but isn't. Nonetheless, he must choose between two fiancees - Nada the uninterested and Electra the uninteresting - or all three of them will suffer the most dire of consequences. Luckily a convenient catastrophe has popped up to distract Dolph from his dilemma - the foal-napping of young Che Centaur by goblins. And the only one who knows where Che is is a nice but remarkably naive elflike girl named Jenny from the World of Two Moons. If anyone can save the missing centaur... she sure can't!"    (descript. on back of book) (World of Two Moons is tie-in to ElfQuest series)
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Plot

Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Romance Yes
Romance plotlets: - love triangle/polygon
Spying & Investigations Yes
What is main char. doing? - rescue mission/escape from confinement
Mental/magical powers focus Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male - Female
Profession/status: - unemployed - Prince/Nobleman/King
Age: - a teen
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - can change shapes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an entire race
Age: - 40's-50's
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - telekinesis
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Jungle - Water - Mountains - Forests
Earth setting: - 20th century
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a primitive/fantasy society
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Planet outside solar system? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - description of breasts
How much dialogue? - significantly more dialog than descript - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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