{"id":11275,"date":"2011-04-12T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2011-04-07T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:19:23","slug":"the-lost-gate-by-orson-scott-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-lost-gate-by-orson-scott-card\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Lost Gate<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is the first book in a new fantasy series by Orson Scott Card.\u00a0 It\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0story of Danny, an 11-year-old\u00a0boy living on Earth among his family of gods.\u00a0 Unlike the rest of his family members, he displays no affinity for magical powers, so he is often tormented and cast out by the others living in their village.\u00a0 That is, until one day when Danny is climbing a tree and discovers that he indeed has a power:\u00a0 he is a gatemage, meaning he can create gates through space to anywhere he wants to go.\u00a0 This discovery puts Danny in great danger, as being a gatemage comes with the penalty of death due to the destruction and torment caused by the last gatemage, Loki.\u00a0 After being discovered, Danny must escape his family and go out into the “drekka world” (the real world for us mortals without magical powers) and learn not only how to survive alone, but how to use this new power.<\/p>\n

Card is very skilled at worldbuilding.\u00a0 Though he does a lot<\/em> of explaining so that the reader understands this urban fantasy world that he has constructed, it comes off as very easy to understand and interesting.\u00a0 I expected nothing less of Card, who created a\u00a0detailed and fascinating\u00a0new world in his famous novel Ender’s Game<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, one of my personal favorites.\u00a0 I will say that the main character in this novel, Danny, often annoyed me and I didn’t feel as connected to him as I did to Ender, but the story was captivating enough that it wasn’t too hard to get through the especially irritating parts (like when Danny becomes friends with young criminal Eric and engages in\u00a0some\u00a0unlawful\u00a0activities).\u00a0 If you’re a big fan of fantasy and enjoy imagining new magical worlds, I recommend giving this book a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lost Gate is the first book in a new fantasy series by Orson Scott Card.\u00a0 It\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0story of Danny, an 11-year-old\u00a0boy living on Earth among his family of gods.\u00a0 Unlike the rest of his family members, he displays no affinity for magical powers, so he is often tormented and cast[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[742,1589,774],"class_list":["post-11275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-fantasy","tag-magical-worlds","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2VR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}