Book Review: Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume 1

Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume 1 by Orson Scott Card

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This adaptation of Orson Welles' Alvin Maker series has a lot going for it. It's got interested characters and does a good job of setting up a solid alternate history, and giving a mystical setting. The big problem with the book is that it was too darn verbose. Each page is covered in narration. There's very long blocks of dialogue. There were decisions that needed to be made for this to work in the graphic novel medium. Unfortunately, it didn't happen and we end up with a challenging read and not in a good way. The included "Ender's Game" universe story is fine. It suffers some of the same deficiencies as the main story but its less notable. Overall, not a great read.



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