Pet Peeve

by Piers Anthony

Overview

While on a quest to unload an offensive parrot, a kindly goblin must defend all of Xanth from robot invaders in this zany fantasy adventure.

Most goblins are decidedly unpleasant company, but Goody Goblin is cursed with unflappable kindness. So, it is all the more frustrating when he is charged with finding a suitable home for the Pet Peeve: a foulmouthed parrot with a knack for insulting anyone in its vicinity . . . while mimicking the voice of the person carrying it.

Goody is joined on his quest by the brawny warrior Hannah Barbarian, who must protect him in his travels. But when they unwittingly trigger an invasion of robot marauders, insults are the least of their worries. With all of Xanth in danger, Goody, Hannah—and the beautiful goblin chief Gwenny Goblin—must rally dragons, zombies, centaurs, and more to fend off their mechanical foes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798337200644
Publisher:	Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publication date:	05/20/2025
Series:	Magic of Xanth Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	324
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Piers Anthony is one of the world's most popular fantasy writers, and a New York Times–bestselling author twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives hundreds of letters from his devoted fans. In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other bestselling works. He lives in Inverness, Florida.
New York Times–bestselling author twenty-one times over. His Xanth novels have been read and loved by millions of readers around the world, and he daily receives letters from his devoted fans. In addition to the Xanth series, Anthony is the author of many other bestselling works. He lives in Inverness, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

Anthony returns for the 29th time to the perennial pot of gold known as the Xanth series. Xanth is the fantasy land shaped like Florida where its magical inhabitants-from monstrously stupid ogres to wee elves, rampaging barbarians and rude goblins-seem inordinately fond of light adventure and puns. In this installment, we follow what happens when the strangely nice Goody Goblin ("I am cursed to be polite. It is most inconvenient") hooks up with the curvaceous Hannah Barbarian on a quest. Their job is to find a "suitable home" for an antagonistic and foul-mouthed bird (the "Pet Peeve" of the title) that insults anyone or anything in its vicinity in the voice of the person carrying it; quite a problem in a place where one tends to run into ill-tempered dragons. Along the way, we are introduced to a veritable menagerie of magical characters and exposed to some very bad puns. This is the kind of book where, when a character's name is Rek King, you can be quite sure that someone will be attending the Rek King Ball later that evening. A patently silly tale: all in all, fun, humorous light fantasy.

Kirkus Reviews