The Treasure Box
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Orson Scott Card has done some really masterful work (Ender's Game comes to mind).
This isn't one of those. It's a witch story, set in contemporary America, as envisioned by soap operas. There's a false romance, there's evil magic.
But I think this book has OSC tipping his [hetero]sexist hand -- all is resolved by recognizing that the protagonist's wife is actually a witch, and battling her in a Manichaean struggle to defeat the Evil Ones. Weird stuff, and I bought this before OSC's nasty homophobic comments on the rights to marriage; I'm now unloading it.
It's listed under Literature in the database here at bookcrossing. Literature it ain't. Fantasy it is. (It involves witches with working magical spells, for heaven's sake.) But I might just as easily classify it as "Religion and Spirituality", for the degree that it preaches.
This isn't one of those. It's a witch story, set in contemporary America, as envisioned by soap operas. There's a false romance, there's evil magic.
But I think this book has OSC tipping his [hetero]sexist hand -- all is resolved by recognizing that the protagonist's wife is actually a witch, and battling her in a Manichaean struggle to defeat the Evil Ones. Weird stuff, and I bought this before OSC's nasty homophobic comments on the rights to marriage; I'm now unloading it.
It's listed under Literature in the database here at bookcrossing. Literature it ain't. Fantasy it is. (It involves witches with working magical spells, for heaven's sake.) But I might just as easily classify it as "Religion and Spirituality", for the degree that it preaches.