Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Three (Paperback) by Orson Scott Card

from willowcove

My personal feelings about the author aside. The first book was a fun read. Unfortunately, each successive book in the series got more and more disappointing.

from symcbean

I'd not read the first in the series - started with this one. Its OK.

from Snukes

An interesting installment in the series. This book felt more like it was telling the tale than the second book. It also felt like it was being told as part of the oral tradition, with a bit of exc...

from AltheaAnn

Card is an extremely good writer, and his books are always a pleasure to read, but at times I did feel that the stories here occasionally suffered for being too allegorical, and too much about Card...

from cargocontainer

This was better than the previous book, but still fell short of where I thought it needed to be. This series is still amazingly racist, and does more to justify racism than to go against it. There ...