The Sopaths

Piers Anthony

Jul 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Humanity is threatened by it’s own monstrous children in this controversial fantasy novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.

Killing children is an ugly business, but the alternative is so much uglier. Abner Slate just watched his five-year-old daughter, Olive, kill his wife and son. Olive is a sopath. Born without souls, sopaths are children who will lie, cheat, rape, and murder to get what they want. There’s one in every family these days, destroying America’s heartland from within.
 
After murdering his daughter in self-defense, Abner is taken in by a secret network of sopath victims called Pariah. Through Pariah, he meets other sopath victims who band together to form a temporary nuclear family. But the sopath threat is getting worse, and soon their quaint little neighborhood is overrun by murderous, drug-running children.
 
Now, on a mission for Pariah, Abner and his makeshift family must travel across the country to a mysterious town that contains a secret powerful enough to stop the sopath crisis. Instead, they find the most seductive and ruthless sopath of all. Her name is Autopsy, and she would like to add Abner to her slave collection. The old morality is dead. Now the sopaths will stalk the Earth.

Ratings and reviews

This is my first book read from this author. Although I don't like the way he puts the words together and could have been a little more detailed, the story was good. The ending has no closure; I feel like he stopped in the middle of what could've been an awesome story to sum up what happens. I probably won't read anything else from him.

I don't even know where to start. I'm an avid reader and read across many genres. I'm not easily offended or bothered by things I read, but this is the first book I've ever deleted from my digital library. There was no point to this book (although the concept is intriguing)! I was really disgusted to the point of revulsion at the way he sexualized even the CHILDREN. It's disturbing how often and explicitly the children are sexualized.

Piers Anthony was one of the first authors I ever became obsessed with. As a young child the Xanth Series and then later the Mode and Incarnations Series all had a big effect on me. He has always been misogynistic... Honestly it is really just a sign of the era he grew up in. The pedophelia aspect of his writing didn't concern me at first but now it is happening more and more often. I don't get it.

About the author

Piers Anthony has written dozens of bestselling science fiction and fantasy novels. Perhaps best known for his long-running Xanth series, many of which are New York Times bestsellers, he has also had great success with the Incarnations of Immortality series and the Cluster series, as well as Bio of a Space Tyrant and others. Much more information about Piers Anthony can be found at www.HiPiers.com.