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Better than the previous book due to its length. Still using the court cliche to push the story along is getting stale.
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Tales of Alvin Maker #5
Heartfire
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Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on that path to peace.
336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1,1998
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336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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January 1, 2001 by Orbit
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9781841490328
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1841490326
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English
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Alvin Maker
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Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. He is (as of 2023) the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003).
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; his opposition to homosexuality has provoked public criticism.
Card, who is a great-great-grandson of Brigham Young, was born in Richland, Washington, and grew up in Utah and California. While he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU), his plays were performed on stage. He served in Brazil as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and headed a community theater for two summers. Card had 27 short stories published between 1978 and 1979, and he won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1978. He earned a master's degree in English from the University of Utah in 1981 and wrote novels in science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, and historical fiction genres starting in 1979. Card continued to write prolifically, and he has published over 50 novels and 45 short stories.
Card teaches English at Southern Virginia University; he has written two books on creative writing and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest. He has taught many successful writers at his "literary boot camps". He remains a practicing member of the LDS Church and Mormon fiction writers Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, and Dave Wolverton have cited his works as a major influence.
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Made the awkward story placement of book 4 worthwhile. Its still entertaining, but not as good as the first two books in the series. O.S. Card knew the resolutions he wanted in the first few books of the series, and it feels like he knows what he wants for the end of book 6, but for books 4 and 5 he just tried moving the pieces around, and give us resolutions that'll bide us over until 6. They were good enough to keep me going, but now I fully expect all that is promised to me in the Crystal City
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10/10. Media de los 43 libros leídos del autor : 8/10
43 obras que me he leído de Card y media de 8/10. Tela. Creo que eso lo dice todo, y liarme a hacer alabanzas de este autor-y de esta novela- es superfluo. Además El juego de Ender fue la primera novela que leí suya y caí enamorado.
Le he puesto nada menos que 10/10 a siete de sus novelas y 9/10 a otras ocho. Casi merece más la pena decir cuales de esas 43 suspenden; solo hay dos: Ruinas (Pathfinder#2) y Esperanza del venado.
Además solo otras 5 se llevarían tres estrellas. El resto, 4 o 5.
Un crack,vamos.
Quinta entrega de la saga de Alvin Maker en su América alternativa (estilo años del Oeste). Y recuperamos el 10/10 tras 5 novelas, ahí es nada.
43 obras que me he leído de Card y media de 8/10. Tela. Creo que eso lo dice todo, y liarme a hacer alabanzas de este autor-y de esta novela- es superfluo. Además El juego de Ender fue la primera novela que leí suya y caí enamorado.
Le he puesto nada menos que 10/10 a siete de sus novelas y 9/10 a otras ocho. Casi merece más la pena decir cuales de esas 43 suspenden; solo hay dos: Ruinas (Pathfinder#2) y Esperanza del venado.
Además solo otras 5 se llevarían tres estrellas. El resto, 4 o 5.
Un crack,vamos.
Quinta entrega de la saga de Alvin Maker en su América alternativa (estilo años del Oeste). Y recuperamos el 10/10 tras 5 novelas, ahí es nada.
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Caught between three or four stars on this one. Despite being middle-aged, I'm relatively new to the Fantasy genre. I do get the "series" business model but this installment in particular, while well written and solidly plotted, seems more filler than anything else - a way to squeeze out another Alvin Maker book. I do credit Orson Scott Card for avoiding many of the genre templates and cliches and adding an alternate history viewpoint - one that at times seems a bit heavy-handed and overly sentimental but nonetheless sincere.
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Entertaining but hardly moves the story forward. Alvin is basically trying to save the world and surrounding himself with others that do the same
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By the fifth book in Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker series, Heartfire, there's little chance that this entry will change many opinions about the series. For those with a continued interest in reading about Alvin's quest to become a Maker and build the Crystal City, this will certainly continue that story.
I'm leaning towards the opinion that this series was complete, and better, as a trilogy. Still, the series stands as something which shows the unique voice of the author, and is possibly one of the more accessible alternate-history series out there (though the heavy dose of fantasy may not win over so many fans from the lovers of alternate-history novels). While Ender's Game was the book which brought Card to my attention, this series may very well be the one which I always think of as uniquely his.
I'm leaning towards the opinion that this series was complete, and better, as a trilogy. Still, the series stands as something which shows the unique voice of the author, and is possibly one of the more accessible alternate-history series out there (though the heavy dose of fantasy may not win over so many fans from the lovers of alternate-history novels). While Ender's Game was the book which brought Card to my attention, this series may very well be the one which I always think of as uniquely his.
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Orson's narrative planning and execution bring this 5th installment strongly forward, showing the development of the world's events and pivotal person's influence at play. Branching paths of each actor's role in Alvin Maker's story rise to greater heights as the people who are in Mr. Smith's circles show their strengths in this tale. Harsh themes in America's past are brought to the forefront in Heartfire, delving into their dark influence on history while using their atmosphere to extrapolate grand storylines for the overstory. The humor, lessons, conversations, descriptions, language, and soul in the tale solidify this chapter of the saga as a grand literature.
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