The Lost Gate
Orson Scott Card
Mithermages series, book 1
Genre: fantasy
Audience: teens + adults
Rating: 4/5
Orson Scott Card weaves an involved and intriguing fantasy world into our own. Our hero is Daniel North, a young man living in what is more or less a commune - but a community where all the inhabitants have magical abilities and are descended from the Nordic Gods. Alas, poor Daniel has not displayed any talents of his own and it is feared that he is a Dreeka - one without magic and little bit than the non-magical humans (called Drowder). However, when Danny's talent actually DOES reveal itself, it puts him in even more danger. For Danny is a Gate Mage - the most despited and rarest of the mages. Loki, the trickster, doomed all with Gate Mage abilities when he destroyed all the gates. Forced to flee from his home, Danny must live on his wits and abilities. Entwined with this is the story of Wad, a young man freed after years of capture and flung into the complicated world of court politics. How do these two rather different stories weave together? You'll have to read it and see.
Card writes well-developed, and distinct characters - and that combined with the interesting world will engulf you in its pages until the very end.
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