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Read related articles:. Name Please enter your name. When his beloved wife Jolie and his father die in the Albigensian Crusade precipitated by the mischief of Lucifer he joins the Brotherhood to hide and plot his revenge against the Horned One. However, Parry countered the spell Lucifer threw at him and with his dying breath he claimed the Office of Evil taking the name Satan.
Where Parry came from and how he obtained the Office of Evil and became an Incarnation is an interesting pathway that is new though. And what happened to him at the end of Being a Green Mother is revealed. Now, a few words on the story itself. There are a few inconsistencies and at times the writing is a bit simple, but the overall storyline is just as enthralling to me now as it was when I read it two decades ago. Nov 21, Elizabeth rated it really liked it.
The concept is so cool, and the way he writes it so painful and juvenile I mean, it's about replacing the devil, how could it not be? So I give it extra points. Nov 04, Anastaciaknits rated it really liked it Shelves: , fantasy , sci-fi.
I've read this book a few times over the years, and I'll state the same thing at the beginning of reviewing all the I of I books: this is a re-read, and the first time reviewing the books. It's genius to think of Satan as a human being, and it's fascinating to see how that human being changes, over the course of hundreds of years, in his role as Satan. The Incarnation of Immortality is heavily featured in all the books in this series, of course, but he's the star in this one, and he does shine.
I really, really like him as a human, like him throughout most of the book, really. He does a few things here and there that I wish he hadn't done, but it makes him so, so human and really, it just adds SO much to the book to see even an Incarnation make a mistake. Nov 11, M. Anthony always did a great job with the preceding Incarnations as the philosophical questions, suggestions, and revelations of Death, Time, Fate, War, and Nature. A few books were better than others, but ALL of the books were at least 4 stars, and were all excellent reads.
I was blown away by this sixth volume of Incarnations of Immortality and the development of Satan's character. It's a fantstic read, exploring good and evil and tackling some hard questions. The revelation that God simply w Mr. The revelation that God simply wasn't listening anymore certainly makes a lot of sense when you think about how the world is today. Just like its five predecessors, this book is entertaining and thought-provoking.
You just might get a few new views or ideas on things you believe in, these books are that good. Jul 24, Cinco rated it it was ok Shelves: fantasy.
I sure read a lot of crap fantasy in high school. Oct 26, Sam Sobelman rated it it was amazing. Maybe my adult mind would think otherwise, but this anti-hero's journey was pretty badass to my teenage mind. Jan 22, Matt Guion rated it really liked it. I've mentioned before that Piers Anthony suffers from what I like to call "second book syndrome," where the second books he writes in a series suffers greatly in comparison to the first, either because the first book raised expectations unreasonably high, or because after successfully publishing the first book in the a series, the author doesn't feel the need to try as hard for the second.
I know I'm supposed to be reviewing the sixth book in this particular series, but I have a point, bear wit I've mentioned before that Piers Anthony suffers from what I like to call "second book syndrome," where the second books he writes in a series suffers greatly in comparison to the first, either because the first book raised expectations unreasonably high, or because after successfully publishing the first book in the a series, the author doesn't feel the need to try as hard for the second.
I know I'm supposed to be reviewing the sixth book in this particular series, but I have a point, bear with me. So far, none of the books in the Incarnations of Immortality series have quite reached the level of the first book, On a Pale Horse, which achieved a near-perfect balance of idea, character, and plot. For Love of Evil, however, the sixth book in the series, comes the closest.
It's easy enough to see why that is. The original series was only supposed to be five books long, there was a fairly long gap between books five and six, and Piers Anthony switched publishers, going from Del Rey, where he established his three best-known series Xanth, Apprentice Adept, and Incarnations of Immortality to Ace, where all three of those series got something of a facelift.
Xanth started a new "magical trilogy" following the first nine books with a new storyline; Apprentice Adept followed up the original trilogy with a new story following the next generation of characters; and Incarnations took its story beyond the original five Incarnations and published two more novels, looking at the two major Incarnations in the story: Evil and Good.
In many ways, For Love of Evil, which as its name implies follows the Incarnation of Evil, or Satan, reads like a first book in a series. Anthony stated in the author's note of this book that he was attempting to write this book for those who had read the first five books of the series and those who hadn't. But more to the point, I think he also needed to write a book that his new publishers would actually publish.
There would be no coasting allowed here. Satan is a character who we have met as the main antagonist in the previous five books of the series--well, four and a half anyway--and it would seem that his character is fairly straightforward: he's evil. But in the previous novel, we saw that Satan, though the Incarnation of Evil, is capable of love, as he fell in love with Orb, the Incarnation of Nature, and proved his love by effectively destroying himself and leaving his office.
And this novel takes us back farther than any of the books in the series so far have, to medieval times where we meet a young sorcerer's apprentice named Parry, and his young wife, Jolie.
The first chapters of the novel follow Parry through his life, through a number of tragedies, and finally, we watch Parry slowly become corrupted by evil, culminating in him becoming the Incarnation of Evil himself, the character of Satan. But "evil" is a very subjective thing, and one of thing this novel does quite well is explore the very nature of not only what evil is, but what the role of the Prince of Evil would be.
The character of Satan has two very conflicting roles in our mythology. On the one hand, he's supposed to be the antithesis of God, the very essence of everything evil in the world.
But on the other hand, he also punishes evil, overseeing Hell where evil souls go. Parry himself struggles with this, and eventually concludes that Satan and God should really be in cooperation with each other, working together to sort out the good from the evil in the world. And this is also the first novel in which we actually get to see God, the Incarnation of Good. In the previous novels, God never appears, and there's some question as to whether God is simply honoring a covenant not to interfere in the lives of mortals, or whether he's even paying attention.
This novel confirms the latter, which is a common enough feeling among many. If there really is a great power of Good watching over the world, why is there so much evil in the world? This will be explored more in the seventh installment of the series of course, but a great deal of exploration happens here as well.
The character of Parry is also a fascinating one. This is another book, like With a Tangled Skein, that covers a long period of time, and follows the whole life of a person. The first chapters showing Parry's corruption were very interesting to me, as different definitions of evil were explored, and we saw that Parry always had the seeds of corruption within him, because as a sorcerer, he very often dealt in deception, so it was easy enough for him to assume the office of the Prince of Lies.
We also see, very often, that Parry is doing things that are technically evil, but doing them for a good cause, both as the mortal Parry, and also as Satan. Indeed, Satan is painted as the only one of the two major powers who is actually doing anything. Parry sees it as his role to find evil or try to bring innate evil out in people so it becomes obvious, not to actually create evil itself.
In a manner of speaking, he is fulfilling the roles of both God and Satan in trying to sort out who is truly good and who is truly evil. This book assumes that each faith denomination has its own Incarnation, and that God is merely the most prominent one, which helps some with some of the problems I had with Wielding a Red Sword. So idea and character are both done quite well in this book, and these are arguably my two most important criteria for enjoying a novel.
The place where the book suffers, however, is plot, which is why I stopped short of giving this book a full five stars. As I said, Anthony tried to address both the readers who were familiar with his previous books and those who weren't, and in doing so, I think he compromised the plot a little too much.
Because we're following the life of a character who we've seen in all five of the previous Incarnations novels, we necessarily have to revisit the plots of these five novels, at times repeating entire scenes.
That I don't mind so much, but I feel like Anthony rushed this part of the novel a little too much. I think he was afraid of being viewed as unoriginal--in spite of his protestations to the contrary--and was afraid of boring his loyal readers with stuff they'd already read.
It was interesting the view the scenes from a different perspective, but even that perspective seemed a little rushed and haphazard. I felt like the first two-thirds of the novel was done very well.
There wasn't much of a plot, but it was the same sort of thing as we saw in On a Pale Horse, where the plot took a backseat to idea and character development, which I didn't mind at all. But the last third of the novel felt almost obligatory, and though it wasn't as much of a slog to get through as other things Anthony has written, I didn't enjoy it as much as the rest of the book.
But it is worth pointing out that for the most part, the problems with that part of the plot are the same problems I had with the plot of the previous novels that this book was revisiting, particularly Being a Green Mother, which still felt overly contrived and not terribly clever.
Overall, I very much enjoyed reading this book again. It was a nice change of pace from the somewhat "meh" offerings of the last two novels in the series, a solid bit of character writing, and a good look at the nature of evil and the role of Satan. A few flaws, but overall enjoyable and thought-provoking. Worth Rating: Worth owning used Recommended to David by: Stewart Wymer.
Shelves: fantasy. Into Satan's mind 14 January This is the sixth book of the series and the main character of this book is the incarnation of evil, or Satan. The book follows the same lines as the previous books in the series in that the first part of the book deals with the mortal life of the main character before he becomes the incarnation, and it also looks at the events of the other books from the eyes of this particular incarnation.
However Satan, being the antagonist of all the other books, obviously ha Into Satan's mind 14 January This is the sixth book of the series and the main character of this book is the incarnation of evil, or Satan.
However Satan, being the antagonist of all the other books, obviously has a significant role in the series. The idea behind this book is something that we have seen developing for quite some time, and in away goes back to William Blake 's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It is the idea that while there is evil in the world, Satan is not strictly evil, but rather the incarnation that holds sway over evil. February 14, History.
Subjects Fantasy. Not in Library. Libraries near you: WorldCat. For love of evil , Avon Books. Borrow Listen. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to fantasy, fiction lovers.
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