Sarah's review
Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
I liked a lot of Card's early books, and the premise of this looked interesting enough for me to grab it off the shelf at the library, but I couldn't finish it. The prose was awful. The characters were ridiculous. I don't know if that was it, but it was unreadable. The main character seems to be a teenaged boy from LA. He finds an abandoned baby and brings it home. The first thing the adults do is ask if it is his, then refuse to help him with it. One is a nurse, and reluctantly agrees to take him to the hospital at which she works. He holds the baby in his arms in the car since they don't have a car seat. When the nurse stops suddenly and the baby slips in his arms, she calls him a "coprocephalic" (look it up, or parse the roots), to which he objects. Really? She would say that? He would know how to respond? Nothing rang true. I gave up.
