The Gate Thief
- 400
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“The Gate Thief” carries Card’s “Mither Mages” trilogy forward on the strength of an inventive premise built around gate magic. Some readers are swept along to a conclusion they find exciting; others feel long passages get bogged down in the mechanics of that magic. There are also readers who object to how sex and the young female characters are handled. It is for those already invested in the first volume.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Gate Thief is a fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the second novel in the Mither Mages trilogy.
Reading order · Mither Mages
Full order & progress →- The Lost GateStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Gate ThiefThis book
7.87.8 / 10 - Gatefather
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 80 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 35% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.7 | 9 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 71 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Gate Thief?
It has 400 pages — shorter than 78% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Fantasy — and a score of 7.8, the closest to this book.
