Calle De Magia
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788466630818 (8466630813)
Publish date: February 2007
Publisher: Ediciones B
Pages no: 351
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Paranormal,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
Adult,
Fairies,
Speculative Fiction,
Contemporary
A Midsummer Night's Dream transported to the twenty-first century and set with an all Black cast in Baldwin Hills, a "mixed middle-class" African American neighborhood of longstanding in Los Angeles, Magic Street exhibits many of Orson Scott Card's best qualities as a writer--soaring prose, strong c...
OSC normally rocks. But this is the worst OSC book I've ever read. I think the main problem is that the plot isn't his (it's based on Shakespeare), so he had to work to get the characters to fit the framework of a story that isn't his to begin with. And the characters just weren't his normal style a...
Not one of his best books, but I really appreciated the characterization and the effort he put into getting the "black" right, without making the character stereotypical.
As with all of Card's books, this most recent of his is very well written.It takes place in an upper-middle-class black american community. Card's afterword makes much of how he had his black friend vet it before sending it out - I think because he KNEW that he'd be taking a lot of criticism. The ch...
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