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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
I listened to this series narrated mostly by Stefan Rudnicki but even his silky baritone couldn't save this mess.
It starts out with an interesting premise, but by the end of the series it is anticlimactic and wastes the few potentially interesting ideas that pop up throughout the book. The author's issues with women and sex permeate the text by the end.
Hopefully this review saves someone else from wasting their time.
It starts out with an interesting premise, but by the end of the series it is anticlimactic and wastes the few potentially interesting ideas that pop up throughout the book. The author's issues with women and sex permeate the text by the end.
Hopefully this review saves someone else from wasting their time.
New concept I really enjoyed it O.S.C. Does a great job working from a teenage boys perspective
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While I ultimately enjoyed this audiobook and look forward to the next two in this trilogy, there were aspects that give me pause.
At the beginning it felt much more like a adolescent/young adult story: teenage magical main character in non-magical America with family issues (to put those issues mildly). The story intrigued me but it definitely felt juvenile (which is fine if that’s what it is).
Then the narrator switched and clearly the story was I was in another branch of the story, not only due to the second narrator but also with the tone. It took most of the book to finally put the two branches together as part of the same tree (which is also fine and kept me speculating). This second branch, while having a clearly more magical setting, had a decidedly more “adult” feel to in respect to the descriptions of sexual encounters. I don’t read romance novels and didn’t particularly enjoy the unnecessary detail that I felt wasn’t needed in this story… the details in these encounters just felt distracting and out of place with the feel of the rest of the book.
I loved the magical world created by this author and the way he wove it together with our current non-magical world. I enjoyed the characters. The storyline grew on me as it developed. I didn’t feel the sexual descriptions added to the story in any way.
At the beginning it felt much more like a adolescent/young adult story: teenage magical main character in non-magical America with family issues (to put those issues mildly). The story intrigued me but it definitely felt juvenile (which is fine if that’s what it is).
Then the narrator switched and clearly the story was I was in another branch of the story, not only due to the second narrator but also with the tone. It took most of the book to finally put the two branches together as part of the same tree (which is also fine and kept me speculating). This second branch, while having a clearly more magical setting, had a decidedly more “adult” feel to in respect to the descriptions of sexual encounters. I don’t read romance novels and didn’t particularly enjoy the unnecessary detail that I felt wasn’t needed in this story… the details in these encounters just felt distracting and out of place with the feel of the rest of the book.
I loved the magical world created by this author and the way he wove it together with our current non-magical world. I enjoyed the characters. The storyline grew on me as it developed. I didn’t feel the sexual descriptions added to the story in any way.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Orson Scott Card my go down as my favorite author.
I have always loved Enders Game and the books following its story. The Lost Gate is so damn good it deserves a place right beside it!
The mythological world and our reality mixing with yet again a small boy caught in the mix with an extraordinary gift to create GATES!
You need to do yourself a favor. Buy the book or the audio book (I think Card prefers you listen to his stories) right now! Get on it! I am getting the sequel The Gate Thief asap on Audible and can't wait to see where the story goes.
Read this book. It is good.
Justin
I have always loved Enders Game and the books following its story. The Lost Gate is so damn good it deserves a place right beside it!
The mythological world and our reality mixing with yet again a small boy caught in the mix with an extraordinary gift to create GATES!
You need to do yourself a favor. Buy the book or the audio book (I think Card prefers you listen to his stories) right now! Get on it! I am getting the sequel The Gate Thief asap on Audible and can't wait to see where the story goes.
Read this book. It is good.
Justin