Magic street

397 pages

English language

Published Nov. 17, 2006 by Del Rey/Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
9780345416902
OCLC Number:
70633832

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4 stars (1 review)

Mack Street, an abandoned child adopted by a Los Angeles neighborhood, discovers that he has strange powers that allow him to dream the dreams of others and to enter a parallel world in which his actions affect the real world.

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4 stars

Until this book, I was only familiar with Orson Scott Card through his science fiction, and a couple of articles. This is a modern fantasy set in a well-to-do black neighborhood of LA (Baldwin Hills). Some of the main characters, however, are taken directly from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

It's an interesting attempt at a modern fantasy. It does a pretty good job of blending a modern setting with historical, fantastic characters.

It took me a little while to get into the book. In the beginning, a lot of the dialogue felt artificial. At first, I thought that maybe I simply wasn't familiar enough with young African-American culture in LA. But then I thought that maybe an author who grew up in Mesa, AZ and Orem, UT wasn't familiar enough with young African-American culture in LA. Eventually, I realized that the artificial-sounding dialogue was probably intentional. The characters in …

Subjects

  • Abandoned children
  • Fiction

Places

  • Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • California
  • Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles (Calif.)