Jewel's daughter comes into the sights of a demon intent on rape, while Jewel is completely oblivious. (Oh, those nice demons would never do that.) So, she escapes on a nightmare and is put into the charge of Smash the Ogre and along the way they pick up an entire group of damsels in distress.This is a story whose subject matter is more for adults, yet writing style clearly intended for kids. That, plus a resurgance of the panty obsession and the girls obvious envy of Irene's bra size, is why the 1 star rating.

You have to be an absolute Xanth nut to like this series. I mean, c'mon, "blanket trees"??.

I'm an avid Piers Anthony fan. I've read Ogre, Ogre twice in hardbound. But the publisher of the eBook doesn't proofread it's eBooks because there are several typos. My guess is that they just scan the books into a computer and the scanner doesn't read all the letters clearly. Tall becomes Fall. It's a word, just not the right one. If it wasn't for the typos I would give it Five Stars.

This is one of the first books I ever read, and I've been hooked me on the written word ever since. The fifth book in his very punny Xanth series, it's a great story of interspecies, and interheight, romance between a Nymph and an Ogre. I don't like writing spoilers, so I'll leave it at that, oh and that it's a good read for any age, but there are a lot of Adult Conspiracy parts of the book, so mainly for teens and up. Enjoy, enjoy!

Smash is my kind of man. Sensitive, but destructive. Although my true preference in Piers Anthony books is the Incarnations of Imortality, The Xanth series is worth reading. This book, in particular, is my favorite of this series. Poor Smash, doesn't know what his question is, but serves his time for the answer, and finds himself surrounded by females and unable to crunch any of their bones.

Ogre ogre was one of those books I couldn't put down.Anthony is a fantastic author and I consider myself a fairly good judge.His Xanth novels are some of the best books I've read. Ogre Ogre Captures you and takes you on an imaginative adventure.You really start caring for Smash.Discovering his human side at last he realizes that there is more to life than tramping around xanths wilderness and scaring creatures.