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The Lost Gate
by Orson Scott Card
Card has an interesting way of writing dialog that is funny but at the same time slightly unrealistic.
The Lost Gate started great, with a boy who thought he had been born magicless in a family of mages. The middle started to lose me, with the search for the boy's power dragging out for most of the book. By the last hundred pages I thought there was no way the story would wrap up, and although it did, it left enough dangly edges that a sequel is inevitable. I probably won't read it.
I mostly picked this up because the release of the Ender's Game movie reminded me how much I loved that book. The Lost Gate wasn't on the same level for me.
The Lost Gate started great, with a boy who thought he had been born magicless in a family of mages. The middle started to lose me, with the search for the boy's power dragging out for most of the book. By the last hundred pages I thought there was no way the story would wrap up, and although it did, it left enough dangly edges that a sequel is inevitable. I probably won't read it.
I mostly picked this up because the release of the Ender's Game movie reminded me how much I loved that book. The Lost Gate wasn't on the same level for me.