Burned Faeries... no, that wasn't it.
September 1, 2010 6:28 PM   Subscribe

Bookfilter: The name and author of a book escapes me...

I used to read voraciously when I was a teenager. Most of the books were things I've since forgotten I read. One sticks in my head, though. In it, a man and a woman, strangers to each other, are somehow pulled out of the 'real' world into a magical realm. Once there, they're given the chance to choose Hero bodies and they're transformed. Throughout the rest of the book (or series, maybe it was a series of books), the two change again and again. At one point, the woman turned into a winged faerie that took troubled feelings away from others, leaving them happy but taking the feelings onto herself. To cleanse the bad feelings away, she had to fly into/through a volcano or pit of fire or something like that. I've googled, to no avail. Anyone recognize this?
posted by LOLAttorney2009 to Grab Bag (4 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Sounds like Jack Chalker. Transformations feature in most all of his works, but I think you are talking about the River of the Dancing Gods series.
posted by fings at 6:45 PM on September 1, 2010


my husband, who owns an entire shelf of Chalker, agrees with the River of the Dancing Gods conclusion.
posted by ansate at 9:55 PM on September 1, 2010


Thirding Chalker, River of the Dancing Gods. Had totally forgotten it, but your description and the cover on amazon cinched it for me.
posted by korej at 6:16 AM on September 2, 2010


Response by poster: That's it! That's the one! Thank you three for the answer!
posted by LOLAttorney2009 at 1:58 PM on September 6, 2010


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