Being a Green Mother by Piers Anthony wraps up the original five books of Incarnations of Immortality, and covers events leading to the ultimate resolution of the prophecies surrounding Orb. Luna's, not so much, which is why we later got two more books.
Ok, so as a reminder, Orb is Niobe (Clotho/Lachesis)'s daughter, Luna's (destined to foil Satan) cousin, Mother of Orlene (who becomes Chronos's lover before he takes office), and Mym's (Now Mars) former lover. She's prophesied to become Gaea and may marry Evil.
So, after a recap of her childhood and time with the carnival in India, we get going on Orb and her time among the gypsies and looking for the Llano, the song of songs. We see Orb join up with The Livin' Sludge, last seen in On a Pale Horse, hiring a succubus, and traveling around in the fish that swallowed Jonah. We see her courted by Natasha, who also knows parts of the Llano. And since that level of naming is up there with Alucard, Natasha is Ah, Satan.
Which isn't revealed until Orb has ascended into Nature, and manages to pretty much destroy the world for 40 pages. (Read as catfished woman gets irrationally mad about being deceived.)
And in the end, Orb makes the only choice she can make, after a long winded internal dialogue about good and evil.
Honestly, this is one of the better books in the series. It does have its faults (the courtship makes no sense to anyone, and the scene with her doing the Gypsy version of the lambada to kill of skeletons is silly), but the pacing is fun, the recaps of what's happened before don't totally overwhelm the narrative, and it does ultimately end the series in a way that makes sense. (Even if there are 3 more books.)
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