Enchantress from the Stars
ISBN:
9780606277501 (0606277501)
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Science Fiction,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Romance,
Fairy Tales
Series: Elana (#1)
I think had I encountered this book for the first time at age 12 I would have adored it. As-is, it's sweet and touching (and the unusual structure is pulled off amazingly well), but it doesn't really have the depth to capture my adult heart. Solutions come too easily; people behave, always, as predi...
This sci-fi book is simultaneously incredibly naïve and incredibly arrogant. It describes a clash of three cultures, each in a different stage of social and scientific development. The Federation is a highly evolved, space-faring civilization. They’re so evolved, they are telepathic. They don’t wage...
A good story, and much better than the usual "young adult" fare, aside from the "Alex Rider" and "Maximum Ride" series, of course.
Ten to fifteen years after reading this book, I still remember the scene in which the anthropologist-from-the-stars gives the woodcutter-who-believes-in-magic orange soda, and he's like "magic elixer!" Hah! Loved this story of high technology and low meeting--it's kinda a Prime Directive parable.
I wasn't aware when I ordered this book that it was a YA selection... now, I pretty often read books that have been marketed toward teens - but I have this perception of two types of teen books (or childrens' books, for that matter.) One type is where the author had a story to tell, and told it, and...
Sylvia Louise Engdahl
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