Magic Street by Orson Scott Card. Really pretty mediocre. Too bad because Card is a great writer. His Ender series and the Alvin Marker series are terrific. This book is billed on the cover as the "long-awaited contemporary fantasy novel". Guess people won't be quite as eager for the next one.
Card, a middle-aged, white, Mormon, has tried to write a fantasy novel completely populated by middle-class blacks. It never particularly rings true in spite of his trying to throw a lot of ebonics in. The story is a pretty standard good-vs-evil battle. The premise is that Oberon, Titania and Puck are all real - the king and queen of faeries and their side kick. Oberon has been bound underground for ages and is finally escaping in to the "real" world. Its been before -- and far better.
Skip this one. If you want to read good fantasy stick with others that I've talked about this summer - Rowling, Coifer or Barker.
No comments:
Post a Comment