50. Centaur Aisle

by Piers Anthony (304 pgs)

Rating: 2

Dor is left temporarily in charge of Xanth while King Trent is in Mundania on a trade mission. Everything goes as well as can be expected but when King Trent doesn't return on time, Dor finds himself on a mission to find the missing monarch.

There are only two reasons why anyone would want to read Centaur Aisle. 1. to be able say one has read the entire series. 2. because there is one interesting plot point relevant to the series as a whole.

Otherwise, the characters are wooden and annoyingly whiney for the most part. The prose doesn't flow as well as in some of the other books in the series and frankly...I was bored. While things certainly happened...it felt very disjointed and episodic. The first half was amusing but doesn't make it worth reading the book.

While I didn't hate it, my recommendation is still to just skip it.