A review by lsm510
The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

4.0

Another impulse pick from the library. I gobbled this up like a bowl of potato chips. Like potato chips, it's probably not terribly good for me. While reading this I found myself muttering "not another story about a precocious/powerful/mischievous/misunderstood little boy saving the world....please". I mean OSC, we already have Alvin and Ender? Maybe you might like to make your protagonist a little girl or god forbid an adult at some point? Danny, the boy in question was kind of hard to like, but you forced me to anyway. But it was really the magic system that kept me going. Elemental magic is not an unusual trope in a fantasy setting, but it was an interesting twist to have one the 'elements' be space time itself. This turned out to be a fun and fluffy little read. I hope my library gets the second book in the series.