Piers Anthony delivers another tale set in the bestselling world of Xanth filled with magic surprises adventure and a few puns Herersquos what the author has to say about his new bookldquoFive Portraitsis a kind of sequel toBoard Stiffin that it picks up where the other leaves off with the same characters Apart from that itrsquos one of my favorites within the series Therersquos something about Astrid Basilisk that appeals to me a very pretty girl whose very glance is deadly yet shersquos a nice person whose selfless effort to save five difficult children from future Xanth is thoroughly worthy I also like the theme of the power of unlikely friendship Not just Xanth but Mundania too would be better if there were more such friendshipsrdquo
