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The Lost Gate
by Orson Scott Card
I have been a fan of Orson Scott Card since I first read Ender's Shadow in high school. Then I proceeded to read almost every Ender book available to me - and still, to this day, will pick up a new one whenever it comes out. I love the fullness of the world that Card is able to create with his novels. Sure, there are about a billion Ender books at this point, and that makes it easier to create a world. But when I look back to the first time I read Ender's Shadow (and the parallel - and theoretically the first in the series - Ender's Game) I was so infatuated by the world in that one book that I'm sure it's just something about how Card writes. He's able to create a world that could exist within out own, even though it's an amazing work of science fiction.
Card does the same thing with The Lost Gate - the first book in his newest series called The Mither Mages. In this book the main character, Danny North, knows that the world he lives in with his family is different from the world around him. More than that, he knows that he is different from the rest of his family. Their home is in the isolated mountains in West Virginia far away from any other people and things like schools or stores.
While Danny's cousins are busy perfecting their outself - a projection of their being - Danny cannot do even the most basic of magic. Danny was worried that he would never show any talent for magic, and therefore be an outcast among his family. He read and learned the books in their family library - written in a large number of foreign and ancient languages - as well as all the other practices of the family.
However, Danny eventually learns that he has the power of a Gate Mage - the highest and most fearsome power of all the mages. In ancient times Loki, the great trickster and greatest Gate Mage, sealed off access to the other worlds so that access to magic would be cut off and the magic on earth would diminish. Because of this any Gate Mage born is sentenced to death as soon as his powers are revealed. Danny, once his powers are revealed, is therefore forced to flee his former life and go on the run from his family and all that he has known. Forced to fend for himself in the normal world, Danny comes into his own and gathers a small group of friends and people he trusts.
Read The Whole Review On My Blog, Chaos Theory
Card does the same thing with The Lost Gate - the first book in his newest series called The Mither Mages. In this book the main character, Danny North, knows that the world he lives in with his family is different from the world around him. More than that, he knows that he is different from the rest of his family. Their home is in the isolated mountains in West Virginia far away from any other people and things like schools or stores.
While Danny's cousins are busy perfecting their outself - a projection of their being - Danny cannot do even the most basic of magic. Danny was worried that he would never show any talent for magic, and therefore be an outcast among his family. He read and learned the books in their family library - written in a large number of foreign and ancient languages - as well as all the other practices of the family.
However, Danny eventually learns that he has the power of a Gate Mage - the highest and most fearsome power of all the mages. In ancient times Loki, the great trickster and greatest Gate Mage, sealed off access to the other worlds so that access to magic would be cut off and the magic on earth would diminish. Because of this any Gate Mage born is sentenced to death as soon as his powers are revealed. Danny, once his powers are revealed, is therefore forced to flee his former life and go on the run from his family and all that he has known. Forced to fend for himself in the normal world, Danny comes into his own and gathers a small group of friends and people he trusts.
Read The Whole Review On My Blog, Chaos Theory