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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this book. Card creates wonderfully detailed worlds and this is no exception. His characters are likeable and complex. Unfortunately, my appreciation for this book diminished somewhat upon reading its sequels. Each volume of the trilogy does not stand well on its own, so I tend to view the three as a whole. This volume stands alone the best of the three, however, so I did my best to rate it based only on its own merits rather than the issues I had with the other two.
This new book is one of his best, by far. Reminiscent of Percy Jackson, Card's exceptional writing and the breadth of his imagination weave a story of true depth and meaning. As much as I enjoy Riordan's writing, the Mithermages series (ok, well, this one book of it) just has MORE to it. Can't wait for #2.
I enjoyed this book. I would recommend it and will be definitely be reading the next book in the series when it is released.
Norse fairy tales come to life- in a very violent Narnia way.
This is a good story and I want to read the next in the Mither Mages.
This is a good story and I want to read the next in the Mither Mages.
A perfectly okay fantasy of the kind I particularly favored as a teen. I haven't read anything like this in ages and as such, it was a welcome change.
All the gates between this world and others have been cut off, the Gate Thief took them all. So former gods are now just mages, mere shadows of their earlier selves. They live in compounds and try not to mingle with normal humans. All magical ability is highly praised and wished for in offspring except one: the ability to make gates. To move from one place to another - sometimes just a few centimeters, other times kilometers. A skilled gate mage can create a passage to other worlds. According to the peace treaty between different families, they must murder any child that exhibits such skill. So when Danny, who's spent all his life displaying now particular abilities at all, finds out he is a gate mage, he has to flee.
The book is mostly about Danny coming to terms with what he is and learning how to wield his power. Unfortunately he is just a young teenager without much sense, so he trips himself up continually. He is occasionally extremely arrogant and unlikeable and at other times, he wants to help others so much he endangers himself. After all, Danny has his own Family sworn to kill him and it is also known that the Gate Thief sucks the ability out of any new gate mage when the latter tries to make a "great gate", a passage to Westil, another world.
This book deals a great extent with teenagers, school and coming of age and reminded me of how glad I am to be grown up now and how sincerely I hated being a teen.
All the gates between this world and others have been cut off, the Gate Thief took them all. So former gods are now just mages, mere shadows of their earlier selves. They live in compounds and try not to mingle with normal humans. All magical ability is highly praised and wished for in offspring except one: the ability to make gates. To move from one place to another - sometimes just a few centimeters, other times kilometers. A skilled gate mage can create a passage to other worlds. According to the peace treaty between different families, they must murder any child that exhibits such skill. So when Danny, who's spent all his life displaying now particular abilities at all, finds out he is a gate mage, he has to flee.
The book is mostly about Danny coming to terms with what he is and learning how to wield his power. Unfortunately he is just a young teenager without much sense, so he trips himself up continually. He is occasionally extremely arrogant and unlikeable and at other times, he wants to help others so much he endangers himself. After all, Danny has his own Family sworn to kill him and it is also known that the Gate Thief sucks the ability out of any new gate mage when the latter tries to make a "great gate", a passage to Westil, another world.
This book deals a great extent with teenagers, school and coming of age and reminded me of how glad I am to be grown up now and how sincerely I hated being a teen.
The only reason this book doesn’t have 5 stars is because of how quickly it ended. Danny discovering how to open, close, and lock gates happened only one chapter before he made his Great Gate and his parents went to Westil. That being said, I am VERY excited to read the next in the series, I think it’ll be an awesome ride all the way through
I didn't finish the book because I decided I had a variety of issues with it. I don't know if it was intended for young readers (books that I personally hold on high regard) but it was very repetitive and the main character Danny was whiney and not easy to like.
While this was my first Orson Scott Card book, my boyfriend loves Enders game, so we attempted to listen together. I called quits on it when I started to feel like there was a level of misogyny that I just couldn't handle. He joking says something about gender roles being swapped that annoyed me enough to realize there were no positive women displayed in the novel. A bit of googling lead me to a few explorations into Mr Cards personal beliefs and I let my biases get the best of me and shut that down. I will not be finishing it.
While this was my first Orson Scott Card book, my boyfriend loves Enders game, so we attempted to listen together. I called quits on it when I started to feel like there was a level of misogyny that I just couldn't handle. He joking says something about gender roles being swapped that annoyed me enough to realize there were no positive women displayed in the novel. A bit of googling lead me to a few explorations into Mr Cards personal beliefs and I let my biases get the best of me and shut that down. I will not be finishing it.