For Love of Evil
core novel 1988 Incarnations of Immortality
Record
| First published | 1988 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.13 (14,912 ratings, collected 2026-08-31) |
| Page count | 383 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780380752850 |
| Internal chronology | 6 |
Synopsis
For Love of Evil tells the story of Parry, an orphan raised and trained in white magic by a wizard father figure, who marries a woman named Jolie and finds brief happiness before Christian crusaders attack, killing his father and capturing Jolie. Parry manages to rescue his wife, but she dies of her wounds soon after, her spirit remaining bound to him. Consumed by grief and a desire for vengeance, Parry joins the Church as an inquisitor, a path that gradually exposes him to the influence of a demoness named Lilah, sent to corrupt him and who becomes his consort. Over time this corruption transforms him until he assumes the office of Satan, the Incarnation of Evil, forcing him to navigate his dealings with the other Incarnations and a complicated, long-running connection to a woman named Orb, who is destined for a very different role.
Where it sits
- Universe: Incarnations of Immortality
- Series: Incarnations of Immortality core; position 6 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Piers Anthony
Notes
- From the series record (Incarnations of Immortality): The original seven-book run, one novel per Incarnation (Death, Time, Fate, War, Nature, Evil, Good), published together as a complete cycle 1983-1990.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Incarnations of Immortality: position 6 of 7: previous Being a Green Mother (1987) · next And Eternity (1990)
- Internal chronology, within Incarnations of Immortality: position 6 of 8: previous Being a Green Mother (1987) · next And Eternity (1990)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Incarnations of Immortality
- bookseriesinorder.com: Incarnations of Immortality
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Love_of_Evil
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