These started out great, but got progressively stranger, as Chalker series tend to do. Lots of body shape changing, some gender switching, and general messing with the archtypes of our 'heroes', Joe and Marge, and now Irving. Trying to defeat evil while working around the 'Rules' of Husaquahr is still interesting, but sometimes the new forms really get in the way of both the plot, and the entire book. ( )