The Lost Gate
The Lost Gate is the first book in the Mithermages series by renowned author Orson Scott Card. The story revolves around the Danny North family with many different things. Danny’s cousins create things like fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves Danny can’t create magic or show any talent? There are secrets in the house and many rules that Danny must follow.
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Review 1: The Lost Gate Audiobook by joshua
Card doing what he does best.
While Orson Scott Card has already written any number of coming of age stories, he proves once again that he can breath new life into the subject. The story is entertaining from start to finish and promises to jump start a dedicated series to OSC’s Mithermage’s world, instead of just the small snippets given in short stories and the novella Stonefather. I should admit here that I am a bit biased toward Card’s work since he has been among my favorite authors since I read Ender’s Game in High School. But the largest complaint that I have with Lost Gate is that I’ll have to wait for the sequel.
Review 2: The Lost Gate Audiobook by Tim
Ender and the Half Blood Prince
Any Scott Card book, especially one featuring a coming of age story, is going to be compared with the Enders Game Saga. This book stands up to that comparison pretty well. The story is one of fantasy on a far distant planet coupled with some very practical Potter-esque magic in current day America. It works surprisingly well. I found the fantasy tale annoying in the way that I find all fantasy stories filled with unpronounceable lands and characters set in a magical and perpetual middle ages annoying. The sword and sorcery crew will lap it up between all night Rune Scape sessions and there is just enough sexual tension to satisfy the Twilight crowd.
The most compelling part of the story concerns the teenage hero Danny and his adventures in magical discovery having escaped his horrible family. The pacing is excellent and the magic is believable enough not to get in the way.
Scott Cards most famous hero is Ender of Enders Game and if you haven’t read the Ender saga then you should, but not having done so will not spoil your enjoyment of this book. One thing that Ender and Harry Potter both have in common is that they are tortured by their powers. Like rock stars they manage to make being especially gifted and successful seem just horrible. When I read the synopsis of the story I though “uh oh… myths, fairies and agonizing about how awful it is to have special powers”. Fortunately in this book our hero has a good natured and pragmatic approach to having fantastic powers and even has fun with them from time to time.
I’m in two minds about the narrator; it’s the same Stephan unpronounceable who dragged us so painfully through much of the Ender Saga. His sonorous tortured delivery seems to cry out for the kind of depressing self analysis so favored by Ender and Potter. This book’s more upbeat style doesn’t seem to fit Danny quite so well. In any event this is a great yarn performed well enough which left me intrigued for the next part of what looks like may be.
Review 3: The Lost Gate Audiobook by June M.
I likes the way the 2 stories developed side by side, coming together and making more and more sense. The characters are wonderful especially Danny, his personality is very well developed and consistent. I’m glad there are more books in this series. I haven’t read any books by this author for years, I’m so glad to find out there are more then the wonderful Enders books. Speaker for the dead was my favorite. This series promises to be just as good!
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