The Secret of Spring

If you're making up a best ten list this year, you'll need only nine more.

Spring is the daughter of Gabriel, a wizard who has discovered the secret of ultimate power, but he has an unscrupulous enemy named Zygote. To keep this secret from Zygote, he implants it in Spring and sends her away. To keep a step ahead of Zygote, Spring journeys to the home world of her pen pal Herb Moss, a part human/part plant man. However, even on Herb's world of Paradise #23, Zygote's henchmen aren't far behind.This book is quite charming with a romantic (and at times racy) storyline. There is a good deal of humor of the punning sort for which Piers Anthony is famous, and the mixture of magic and science fiction is quite interesting. However, the story is lightweight, and is easy to pick up and put down. It's a good story, but far from a great one. I'm glad I read this book, but I really can't see rereading it.

Spring is the daughter of Gabriel, a wizard who has discovered the secret of ultimate power, but he has an unscrupulous enemy named Zygote. To keep this secret from Zygote, he implants it in Spring and sends her away. To keep a step ahead of Zygote, Spring journeys to the home world of her pen pal Herb Moss, a part human/part plant man. However, even on Herb's world of Paradise #23, Zygote's henchmen aren't far behind.This book is quite charming with a romantic (and at times racy) storyline. There is a good deal of humor of the punning sort for which Piers Anthony is famous, and the mixture of magic and science fiction is quite interesting. However, the story is lightweight, and is easy to pick up and put down. It's a good story, but far from a great one. I'm glad I read it, but I'll never re-read this one.

When I found this book in my local library, I didn't go for it at first because, frankly, the spine looked bad. Awfully shallow of me, I know, but I finally did pick it up and read the inside cover, and I slipped it into my pile of books, including louisa may allcott and tamora pierce. I was honest with myself, and I was pretty sure I wouldn't read it, but I ended up doing so, and I was just as cute and funny as I hoped it would be. I recommend this book, but not as a profound and heart-stirring read, but more as a late-night grooving in the bathtub thing.

The Secret of Spring is very cleaverly written with puns peppered throughout the story. The characters are funny and imaginative. The unusual ending is quite a surprise. A fun book.