Seventh Son

I was looking forward to this book because I liked the two Ender books I read. But I was also dreading this book because of my distaste for the author himself. Upon reading it, I was perplexed. I couldn't believe this was the same author who wrote Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. This felt like a bad pulp novel from the '50s. It's an alternative early American history with folk religion competing with the different Christian sects. It was choppy, full of exposition, and clearly the beginning of a series. The plot went nowhere. Yet this book won the 1988 Mythopoeic Award and was nominated for several others, including the Hugo. I just don't get it.

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