by Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, Gabrielle De Cuir
I usually don't read fantasy novels because they come in a series and I do not get a sense of completion after each book. Not only that but I am bogged down with information I feel that I didn't need to know. But not with this book. Not only was I interested in the characters and the alternate reali...
This is a fantasy set in an alternate history America--which is part of what makes it so fun. OK, a lot of what makes it so fun. Things seem to have split off from our Timeline at the time of the English Civil War. There's a Lord Protector and Crown Colonies in 1800--but also an American Compact. Be...
The Alvin that starts this novel, isn't the eponymous Alvin. The novel starts with Alvin Miller – a father moving west with his family. Moving west to start a new life with his family. His wife, Faith, and his (many) sons and daughters. Faith is heavily pregnant with their seventh son – which connec...
Too bad it wasn't only from one point-of-view...
The first volume in a fantasy retelling of the life of Mormon founder Joseph Smith set in a 19th century American frontier in which folk-magic is real. It can be enjoyed as a fantasy novel with a unique setting, while ignoring the Mormon parallels; much like Battlestar Galactica.
This is the first in Card's 'Alvin Maker' series.It takes place in an alternate Colonial America (one where Washington got beheaded for treason). The 'alternate history' elements, however, are incidental - the story itself has to do with one young boy, Alvin Jr, who's a seventh son of a seventh son,...
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