The Tales of Alvin Maker: Red Prophet
 

The Tales Of Alvin Maker: Red Prophet

by Orson Scott Card, Renato Arlem

It's the 19th century, and Napoleon is in command of an army in Detroit. Andrew Jackson is a lawyer from Tenezzy, and William Henry Harrison is the self-appointed governor of Wobbish just east of the Mizzipy River. And somewhere up north, in a small town called Vigor Church, is a young boy named Alvin who is the seventh son of a seventh son, with the power to shape the world around him. These... (read more)

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Dirk
  • Rated 5 stars

Like other reviewers, I like the added depth of exploring the same time frame as Seventh Son from the vantage point of other characters.

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candace_redinger
  • Rated 2 stars

Not sure about this series, I think this is it, I read two now and since I still didn't really get into it I'm not going to bother with the third. It was just strange to read about American History with a weird twist of magic and strange spellings of the names. Mizzizzipy? Weird.

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  • Rated 3.867257 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • lalzar l

    lalzar l said:

    Its hard to get such a good book from a remote state like us

    posted Saturday, December 29 2007
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