Mithermages: The Lost Gate (Series #01) (CD-Audio)

from zjakkelien

I really liked this one! It's really OSC, particularly the way the main character, Danny, investigates the limits of his magic. The magic itself is really intriguing, with a good underlying concept. Danny is a gate mage and all the different things that can be done with a gate are surprising. I l...

from Vtstargazer

It made my day to have "The Lost Gate" by Orson Scott Card show up on my doorstep, courtesy of the LibraryThing early reviewers program. I couldn't wait to sit down and read it, and once I did, I couldn't stop. This is the type of book you don't really read, but rather inhale. It starts with the ...

from Sianatra

When young Danny North learns that he is a gatemage, a powerful and forbidden type of mage that hasn't existed in about a thousand years, he is forced to leave his home and find solace elsewhere while trying to learn to control his great power. His journey reveals many things to him, but most imp...

from marti.booker

Card's style is distinctive. Sometimes I'm not too crazy about his characters. Unfortunately, the main character of this book, Danny, was not one of my favorites. The novel had two storylines going; the secondary storyline was, by far, the more interesting and more believable, even though it was ...

from KLmesoftly

Card's worldbuilding, as always, is excellent in this Mithermages 'verse, but sadly the characters he chose to stock the new universe with read like flat shadows of Ender Wiggin and Bean, when they aren't acting as awkward author mouthpieces on philosophical issues. I won't pretend I'm not planni...