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The Lost Gate
by Orson Scott Card
Oh, darn, this was the beginning of yet another fantasy series? Why must all fantasy novels be a series? Here I was, thinking I had found a nice stand-alone novel which is back to Card's original style of storytelling, and it ends without a full resolution. Worse, Card's afterword, which relates how the novel came to be, reminded me why I have fallen out of fandom of his work.
Okay, so it's about a kid who must come of age by recognizing his true potential as a lapsed god. That's not a spoiler, because it's obvious from page 3, but Card--with very little suspense in how it is accomplished--treats it like it will be a great mystery and quest. The best part of this dual-narrative novel was the portion I originally resisted, but it contains a female character who is insidiously brilliant, unexpectedly so. No more digital ink to waste about this one.
Okay, so it's about a kid who must come of age by recognizing his true potential as a lapsed god. That's not a spoiler, because it's obvious from page 3, but Card--with very little suspense in how it is accomplished--treats it like it will be a great mystery and quest. The best part of this dual-narrative novel was the portion I originally resisted, but it contains a female character who is insidiously brilliant, unexpectedly so. No more digital ink to waste about this one.