I like Orson Scott Card. It's funny, but when I first started reading his stuff I didn't know he was better known for his sets of series. This new title is not part of a series. I liked it but then being my father's daughter (his favorite things are Shakespeare and prime numbers) how could I not fall for a book featuring Puck, Titania, and Oberon? But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Truly, how could things be as they appear once Cecil "Ceese" Tucker, a young teenager living in a prosperous African-American neighborhood in LA, finds a newborn baby in a shopping bag? This baby gets adopted in the community, finding a home in every home yet never quite fitting in. As he grows up, Mack Street is a model boy but what others don't know is that he dreams their innermost desires. It is only after Mack finds a door to Fairyland that he starts to piece together the tangled and intertwined connection between the two worlds using A Midsummer's Night Dream as his guide. Things come to a head once a darkly mysterious "motorcycle riding hoochie mama" moves into Baldwin Hills. Soon dreams are coming true in the most twisted ways and everyone learns the truth about what is going on.
The mundane and the fantastic intersect as the characters reveal their true natures. It's a fun book with an intriguing premise. It is slower building than some of his other books; I found this one more focused on the characters themselves than moving the story along at a fast pace. I recommend it for readers who like fantasy as well as for those who like a well written story.