Grey's review
Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is a good writer, as one can tell from his "Ender's Game" and his advice on writing. But there are times when even an expert can do ... not so well. It has happened to better authors before and it's never a pretty sight. Modern fantasy is a genre that has a niche group of writers, (I see the Gaiman fans standing up...) and I can imagine Card doing much better in future books. Just not this one. To be fair, this isn't Stephen King's "Eyes Of The Dragon" bad, but it's still not good.
I actually enjoyed the first half of book, even though it felt more like his social experiment in writing about the Black community (with fairies thrown in and stirred slowly...)
But after the exposition in the middle about what was REALLY going on, the magic sort of goes away, (hell, yes, pun intended. Yay.) and we are left with a rather bland journey all the way to the end.
I wanted to give it 3 stars, but that's injustice to much better works like Ender And Alvin.
I actually enjoyed the first half of book, even though it felt more like his social experiment in writing about the Black community (with fairies thrown in and stirred slowly...)
But after the exposition in the middle about what was REALLY going on, the magic sort of goes away, (hell, yes, pun intended. Yay.) and we are left with a rather bland journey all the way to the end.
I wanted to give it 3 stars, but that's injustice to much better works like Ender And Alvin.
