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Castle Roogna
A Fantasy Novel by Piers Anthony
Book 3 of the Xanth Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Time Travel,
- Quest,
- Portal Fantasy,
- Coming of Age,
- Ancient Xanth
This book is for you if you're into...
- Quests through time to fix impossible love stories
- Body-swapping adventures with unexpected allies like giant spiders
- Fantasy worlds where magic rewrites the rules of age and identity
Once upon a past. . . .. Millie had been a ghost for 800 years. But now, restored by the magic of Xanth, she was again a maddeningly desirable woman.
She could have had any man she wanted . . . except the one she did want, Jonathan the zombie.
To grant Millie her desire, and to prove his right to rule Xanth in the future, young Magician Dor embarked on a quest for the elixir which would restore Jonathan to full life. . But the potion could be found only in the past . . . so, through a magic tapestry, to the past he went, taking over the body of a barbarian warrior.
The first person he encountered there was Jumper, a giant spider—a nightmare monster, but a staunch friend and much-needed ally in peril-haunted, ancient Xanth. . Then Dor met Millie—800 years younger, but just as lovely.
And he realized that, in his new body, he was no longer twelve years old . . .
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