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Fantasy Non-Reader Responds,
By A Customer
This review is from: Enchantment (Hardcover)
With one or two exceptions, I don't read much fantasy. I like historical fiction, primarily. If it's not rooted in semi-reality/real history, I'm not interested. But this story appealed to me, because the hero is a modern guy. Although all that Magic-speak was totally foreign to me.
Two things led me to buy the book: the intertwining of legend and time-travel. And my own romantic notions about Sleeping Beauty. Admittedly, I wished the two leads liked each other more from the beginning--it takes almost two hundred pages for them to be civil to each other. They suffer from misconceptions about what the other is thinking far too long. Once they "get together," the rest of the novel falls into place rather neatly. It might be the climax of the novel, but I wanted them to like each other a whole heckuva lot sooner.
There are long passages when the hero, Ivan, goes off into tangents of thought, which I actually liked, because they were grounded in reality. You'd think I would have had trouble bouncing back and forth through time over a thousand years, but I didn't--although I wish I knew some explanation other than "Magic" that made it all happen. This was my first time reading Card, and I'd read something else by him.