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With thirteen titles in the Xanth series, there is no shortage of books similar to Ogre, Ogre for those who love it.
The Xanth series began with the winner of the British Fantasy Award for 1977, A Spell for Chameleon. Like Ogre, Ogre, A Spell for Chameleon focuses on conserving the environment and is in the form of a quest romance. Bink's quest in the first novel of the series is to discover whether he has magic, and he uncovers an unusual trait, resistance to the harm magic can cause. In The Source of Magic, Xanth learns conservation when the country loses its magic. In Castle Roogna, Dot, son of Bink, is on a quest to restore a zombie to a ghost. Nearly the same characters appear in Centaur Aisle as in Castle Roogna, although the action is four years later. The quest is a rescue of...
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