Re: _Magic Street_ by Orson Scott Card

On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 13:23:43 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<[email protected]> wrote:

>_Magic Street_ by Orson Scott Card
>    https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Street-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0345416899/
>
>A standalone fantasy book, no sequel or prequel.  I read the well 
>printed and well bound hardback published in 2005 by Del Rey.
>
>I believe that this is OSC's first fantasy book but am not sure. 

I would classify the Alvin Maker books as fantasy.

> It is 
>a documentary of a battle between the king of the fairies, Oberon, and 
>the queen of the fairies, Titania, in a black neighborhood of Los 
>Angeles.  Here is the marketing blurb:
>
>"In a peaceful, prosperous African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, 
>Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered 
>abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, 
>Mack comes and goes from family to family–a boy who is at once 
>surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack 
>senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange 
>powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he 
>sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a 
>backyard–and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into 
>an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic."
>
>My rating:  3.6 out of 5 stars
>Amazon rating:  3.9 out of 5 stars (87 reviews)
>
>Lynn