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A review by rouver
The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card
3.0
Let's put this one down as 'okay' with the option of the series as a whole being 'good.' I told Jared that he might as well wait until all the books are written before starting. They aren't so awesome they need to move up to the top of your reading list.
The thing I hated the most was when the female friends of the teenage male protagonist all learned that he had god-like powers, they all immediately wanted to have his baby. And told him so. Repeatedly. I can only hope this is a horribly inaccurate portrayal of teenage girl behavior.
So, Card basically plays 'what if'...what if the old gods were real? Odin, Thor, Loki? They were powerful in the past...what happened? Where are they? They'd lost their powers, but they're gaining them back. There's a war between worlds and the humans don't even know it. Yet.
The thing I hated the most was when the female friends of the teenage male protagonist all learned that he had god-like powers, they all immediately wanted to have his baby. And told him so. Repeatedly. I can only hope this is a horribly inaccurate portrayal of teenage girl behavior.
So, Card basically plays 'what if'...what if the old gods were real? Odin, Thor, Loki? They were powerful in the past...what happened? Where are they? They'd lost their powers, but they're gaining them back. There's a war between worlds and the humans don't even know it. Yet.