Tales of Alvin Maker (Audio): Prentice Alvin (Audiobook)

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 excessive repetition of ideas and themes. All the same, the story is getting more interesting, and I lo...

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's ideas of morality.With the 3rd book in this series, 'Prentice Alvin' the focus shifts to an anti-...

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 are genuinely good parts to this book, and a lot of it was enjoyable, but there were parts that just...