Myth-Taken Identity – Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye

Someone is impersonating Myth Adventures hero Skeeve the Magnificent and racking up quite a debt and it is up to his ex-partner/mentor Aahz to settle the situation–involving a pack of shape changing mall rats and a would be world conqueror–any way he can. This second collaboration of the two authors is a good deal of fun and excitement. Nye seems to lend a higher level of prose and longer stories, yet I recall the earlier books as funnier and–being that they had Skeeve and Aahz together, playing nicely off each other–somewhat sweeter. Perhaps that exact magic can’t be reinstated, even if the old team is resembled; at least give me the faux quotes introducing each chapter. Is that so much to demand?