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. I'm reviewing all of the books after I finished re-reading the entire series, which I don't normally do & didn't do deliberately this time, either...

So I always liked this one in the series. Niobe is pretty cool. She's written as a character that is supposed to be a little dumb, but I don't find her really that dumb (though she does have a few moments where she's a bit slow, but we all have those moments). Her story line is one of the more interesting ones to me out of the interesting story, and she's probably the character I like second most out of everyone (I really like Orb).

Every time I read the book, I'm a bit fascinated by the whole three people/souls in one body bit, and how the whole thing works. Yes, I realize that's the smallest part of the plot, but it just always fascinated me.

As a knitter, spinner, and weaver, it also fascinated me that Fate uses similar elements to tie together all of humanity.

That being said, Piers Anthony is a dirty old man and loves his sex, and paints women in general as nothing but beautiful sex slaves. Ugh. The man's a genius with his ideas, but it takes him forever to get there as he's too busy talking about sex, and his writing is sub-par.