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What a great book! Powers is always fun and intriguing. His novels always involve rich casts of characters and crazy magic with strange sets of rules, and On Stranger Tides is no exception. Some of his other books have gone off the rails in the last couple of chapters, but that's not the case here. The story is funny at times and exciting, and features a number of twists, turns, and unlikely escapes, but never lost me, and built to a satisfying conclusion. I think Powers is one of the most inventive writers working today, and this is running neck-and-neck with The Anubis Gates as my favorite of his novels.
