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Summary: Awesome Book! Card just keeps getting better!
Review: This book is fantastic! It's unlike any other I've read. I reccomend it to any one that likes Sci-Fi, fantasy, action, romance, or just wants a good book.
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Summary: Another excellent entry from a wonderful author.
Review: Card is probably my favorite author. And the diversity of stuff he puts out, as demonstrated by this book, which is nothing like anything else he's ever written, but still excellent, is one reason why.
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Summary: Good Card is better than great from most other authors
Review: I agree with some of the nitpicking stuff, but the bottom line is this is just a really good, engaging story. It's not something you'll make all your friends read like Ender's Game, but it is something you will suggest to them.
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Summary: Card is STILL the Best.
Review: Though Card's "Ender's Game" has never been, (nor ever will be) paralleled, "Enchantment" was appropriately named. For this story is (in a word,) enchanting. Yes, Card has written us a love story. However, "Enchantment" is not your everyday love story. It bridges across time, linking characters from the past to present. Card still has the amazing ablility to actually let the reader believe his story could really happen. A fairy tale come true, is something every child dreams of. There are, of course, the moments of pure mayhem, that we all know could never happen, but smile to even THINK of it's possibilities. Couldn't you just imagine the look of the people when Baba Yaba enters the Princess's time in a 747?! I'm surprised half of them did not die of a heart attack. The book is endearing, the characters are lovable, yet mystical, and as for the witch...you love to hate her. This is definitely a book worth reading.
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Summary: Enchantment is nothing short of extraordinary!
Review: Enchantment is the best thing Card has put out since Ender's Game. It is much more accessible than some of his science fiction (which I also love). What a wonderful way to retell a fairy tale. Card has a way of pulling the reader inside the story-the characters become as real as any person you have ever known. Anyone who loves the story of Sleeping Beauty will love this book.
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Summary: Fantasy Non-Reader Responds
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good twist on an old story
Review: I like the touches that Card puts into his work that just make it that much more readable. I've always been a big fan of his, and this book does nothing to diminish that. I love his characters, how he develops them and how he makes us empathize with them; I couldn't wait to find out what happened next.
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Summary: Very humorous characters; witty ways of expressions
Review: Very humorous characters and ways of constructing sentences. At times the story got dull, but the witty ways of thinking kept me through. I never though sci-fi could be so exciting. Now I see why Orson Scott Card is so beloved.
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Summary: Overblown attempt at a modern-day fairytale
Review: People, get a grip. Mr. Card's a fine writer, but this book's just not all that good. It's a fairy tale, true, but the Good characters are SO good and the Bad characters are SO bad that there is virtually no tension in this story. Will Good triumph over Evil? DUH. Will Fathers be wise and sons obedient (so they can become wise fathers)? DITTO. Will there be the usual OSC lectures on Christian morality and family values along the way? You betcha. Card's characters have never inhabited a morally complex universe where doubt plagues people to the end of their days and the outcomes of stories--like those in life--are unforeseeable. For me, I fell off the Orson Scott Card bandwagon when he sold the Book of Mormon to Tor as a five-part science fiction series, his Homecoming "epic". I thought I'd give him another chance with this book. Silly me.
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Summary: Not just for sci-fi fans...
Review: On the cover of the book it says that "Orson Scott Card makes a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer." I think this quote is completly off-base. He is possibly the best author ANY genre has to offer. A person who hated science fiction could easily fall in love with this book.
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