Reviews tagging 'War'

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

58 reviews

terpsy_kore's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment

cmccoy13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I really really love this book, it’s definitely one of my favorites. But it’s low score is due to the anti-semitism, misogyny and so on. But otherwise, it’s a beautiful book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, War, Ableism, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Torture

evenfall_'s review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Violence, and War

uhtceara's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Genocide, and War

dcm7918's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Toxic friendship, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Grief, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Bullying

jessthanthree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide

Minor: Xenophobia

mar's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexism, Antisemitism, and Homophobia

shieldbearer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ender's Game is a classic for a reason. While one or two moments are cringy by today's standards, Ender's Game is definitely one of those novels that everyone should read at least once. Exploring such themes as culpability, communication and manipulation, Ender's Game really reads like it was plucked from the minds of its characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Bullying, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Bullying- happens very often in the text Child abuse- the premise of the entire book is Ender's emotional abuse at the hands of the government War- while combat itself isnt' described, it's a topic of frequent discussion Child death-

Bonzo and Stilson

both die over the course of the book. Violence- bully encounters and conflict erupt into violence a few times Genocide-

the entire Bugger race is wiped out, or nearly so

Xenophobia- alien Buggers are hated by humans racism/racial slurs- earlier editions of the novel have the N-slur and the K-slur, but it has been edited out of later editions. Confinement-

Ender is unable to leave Eros after winning the war

Animal cruelty/Animal death-

Peter takes to torturing and killing squirrels

jfreud's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

So exciting and compelling! Basically this is the book that made me be like, oh, sci-fi/fantasy is my jam, I should seek that out. It's a total page-turner with neat world-building, a really cool look at childhood and friendship and militarism. Most classic last-minute surprise twist of all time, for my money. Unfortunate that the author is a homophobic turd -- get used/from your local library, if at all possible.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide and War

toast_y's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This has become one of my favourite books, I love it a lot and it really helped me get into science fiction. I’d recommend to anyone just starting out in the genre (like I was). There are some pretty sad/heartbreaking moments in my opinion but I also tend to be overly emotional during books 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, and Violence

Minor: Sexism and War