Lost Boys is a departure from Sci-fi and fantasy novels for Orson Scott Card. To me, it is a welcome departure. I loved this book, and I cried all the way through the last chapter.

Lost Boys tells the story of the Fletcher Family as they adjust to their new lives in North Carolina where the father, Step, has taken a job with a software company. The the main story involves a mysterous change that begins to happen to their young son, and the ending has a wonderful twist.

The subplots dealing with how they adjust to their new Ward and the members rang very true to me and were extremely humorous. This is a novel that portrays LDS people as flawed, normal people who have the same desires and feelings as everyone else. It was refreshing to see fully fleshed-out LDS characters with rich personalities.

My husband read this book with me and he loved it as much as I did. He is the real Orson Scott Card fan in the family and he wasn't disappointed by this book, even without the sci-fi stuff.