With a Tangled Skein
- 413
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“With a Tangled Skein” builds a fantasy novel on an appealing idea: a mortal woman taking up the office of Fate. Some readers find Piers Anthony’s writing dated and at times embarrassing, and object to the way he writes sex and women, which they call reductive or misogynistic. The third “Incarnations of Immortality” book pits Niobe, as one of Fate’s three aspects, against Satan’s schemes, and tells it with humour.
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About the book
With a Tangled Skein is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the third of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. In it, Niobe agrees to become one of the three aspects of the incarnation of Fate, in an attempt to thwart the plans of Satan.
Reading order · Incarnations of Immortality
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 100 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 8 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 92 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is With a Tangled Skein?
It has 413 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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