A Spell for Chameleon is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, published in 1977 by Ballantine Books/Del Rey Books.

En route to see the Good Magician Humfrey about whether he has a talent, Bink runs into three different women, Wynne, Dee, and Iris, as well as Chester and Cherie Centaur, and Crombie the soldier.

The castle in fact seems to possess some form of awareness and had actually used its control of the surrounding area to herd the trio onto its grounds.

It detected the presence of two magician-caliber talents in the group (Bink and Trent) and lured them there in the hopes that one of them could become king and restore the castle to its former glory.

The group leaves Castle Roogna to the see the King but are eventually forced to break their truce when Bink refuses to join Trent in taking over Xanth.

Iris craves power, but as a woman she is barred from ruling Xanth and has decided that the next best thing is to marry a King.

[2] In a dual review for NPR in 2013, married couple Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston called Spell "risky and thrilling".

[3] Infinity Plus's Sue Lange stated that although the book was "written in a simple style and fairly childish", with concepts that "have not aged well", it had "a number of clever moments", as well as "delightful puns" that were "wickedly witty".

Club, described the book as a "sad, misogynistic fantasy" that is "little more than a bundle of leering, hateful, degrading judgments about both women and men", in which misogyny is "fundamentally integrated as a primary theme".