Book Review: The Lost Gate

                                                             The Lost Gate Review

The Lost Gate is by Orson Scott Card who is most famous for writing Ender's Game. The Lost Gate is set in a world in which there are mages who live on earth now but are originally from a world known as Westil but they can no longer go there because there are no more gates. There are several families of mages around the world and they hold an uneasy truce with each other part of this truce is the agreement that if a gatemage was born they would kill the gatemage. The main character of the book is a boy named Danny who discovers when he's about eight years old that he is a gatemage and he is able to mostly hide this from his family until he is thirteen. After the family discovers that he's a gatemage he runs away.

Through out the book we follow Danny's journey were he tries to stay alive, learn how his gatemagery works as well as just grow up.The book is divided into several periods of time it starts with the parts were Danny is still living on the family compound then goes to the part were he starts off on his own and meets up with this guy Eric and then they burglarize a few houses. The next period would be when Danny starts living with the Slivermans and the final one is the one after the three year time skip.

Also through out the book there's a subplot of about a gatemage who lives in Westil. I find the parts that are set in Westil to be less entertaining and it's hard to tell for most of the book why this plot has anything to due with the main storyline but it does make sense by the end of the book.

I overall liked the book it had an interesting plot and mythology. I also liked most of the major characters in this book. I'm pretty sure this book is going to have a sequel and I'm planning on reading it. Please tell me your thoughts on the book.