Book Review: Magic Street

Magic Street
Orson Scott Card
Copyright 2005
ISBN: 0-345-41689-9

Mack Street is an unusual young man. As an infant he was found in a local park, and adopted by a woman who raised him with the help of one of the neighborhood children. Mack is always surrounded by people who care for him, but there is something that sets him apart, something different about his dreams. When he is 17 he learns what that something is.

I enjoyed this book a lot. The plot was amazing, and Card wove elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and British legend in almost seamlessly. The characterizations were less wonderful, but still good. All of the characters in the novel are African-American, and I couldn't help but wonder if they would have felt more three dimensional in the hands of an African-American author. In the acknowledgments Card thanks several people who helped him grasp the differences between what he lived as a white person and what a black person experienced in similar circumstances.

Rating: 8 out of 10.

Book Review: Magic Street

Magic Street
Orson Scott Card
Copyright 2005
ISBN: 0-345-41689-9

Mack Street is an unusual young man. As an infant he was found in a local park, and adopted by a woman who raised him with the help of one of the neighborhood children. Mack is always surrounded by people who care for him, but there is something that sets him apart, something different about his dreams. When he is 17 he learns what that something is.

I enjoyed this book a lot. The plot was amazing, and Card wove elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and British legend in almost seamlessly. The characterizations were less wonderful, but still good. All of the characters in the novel are African-American, and I couldn't help but wonder if they would have felt more three dimensional in the hands of an African-American author. In the acknowledgments Card thanks several people who helped him grasp the differences between what he lived as a white person and what a black person experienced in similar circumstances.

Rating: 8 out of 10.

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