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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
I have no idea what this book is. Orson Scott Card needs a direction/categorize for this book like he did with the other Ender books. The basic fact is that he took out all the moral/emotional fact from the original books was what made this book more like any other novel out there. He just needs to clear his head before writing anything now a days. He has lost his magical touch since writing Shadow of the Giant, which to me is his last great book.
This a prime example of how everything that Orson Scott Card has written since Shadow of the Giant is terrible and going down the tubes. He does not write the way he use to with emotions of characters that you really cared about. I felt no connection to any of the characters, even Ender seemed flat and lifeless in this book. He is know I feel writing to the masses to make a couple of dollars. He is now for me one of the most dissappointed author I have ever read. Shame on him. I feel like I should break up with him.
This book really is more for the die-hard Enderverse crowd and I got off that train awhile ago. Also it isn’t truly a novel but a series of short stories strung together in chronological order. All of this is not to say that this book is bad. In fact, I enjoyed it more than most of the books from the Shadow series. But it is what it is and if you don’t fit into the fanboy category you can probably pass this one by.
Surprisingly good for a book with no plot. I'm serious. There are several "main plots" one of which ends halfway through the book (will the captain of the colony ship let Ender rule?), another of which doesn't begin until the last fourth (Ender saves a planet from Bean & Petra's misguided offspring), and third of which you can't care about because you already know what happened (Ender finds the hive queen, btw).
Yet I liked it. A little.
Yet I liked it. A little.
Not as good as other outings but still a good book with a very strong finale.
I may not have liked this as much as the other Ender books and short stories, but it was still fun. I do think my enjoyment of this book would have been higher had I gone through the Enders Shadow series. Which I do intend to go through, just wanted to do all of Enders books first.
I would have never known this book was slotted into the Shadow books as well as the Ender books if I hadn't been informed by the author in the afterword. But apparently there are characters and things that happen that seeming tie in. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff so I'm confident it would have been more appealing to me had I gone through those as well.
I don't have much else to say about this book other than I really did love the climax. It made me appreciate Ender even more than I already do. Very good finale.
And that's the Ender books done! Hope to get into Enders Shadow series moderately soon!
I may not have liked this as much as the other Ender books and short stories, but it was still fun. I do think my enjoyment of this book would have been higher had I gone through the Enders Shadow series. Which I do intend to go through, just wanted to do all of Enders books first.
I would have never known this book was slotted into the Shadow books as well as the Ender books if I hadn't been informed by the author in the afterword. But apparently there are characters and things that happen that seeming tie in. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff so I'm confident it would have been more appealing to me had I gone through those as well.
I don't have much else to say about this book other than I really did love the climax. It made me appreciate Ender even more than I already do. Very good finale.
And that's the Ender books done! Hope to get into Enders Shadow series moderately soon!
Reading this book made me more anxious for future Ender sequels. Great novel that explains more about what happened after Ender's Game. A most read for fans of the Ender series.
Ender in Exile was disappointing compared to Ender's Game. This sequel covers the years directly following the events of Ender's Game but with fewer likeable or compelling characters. In fact, the characters and plot were poorly executed and not at all up to Orson Scott Card's usual standard. Valentine and Ender were not the true focus of this story and their plot-lines were essentially nothingburgers. The supporting characters were either too dull to think for themselves or so outrageously intelligent that it was unrealistic even in this series. And the overall plot was constrained by the previously published sequels in this series. The story would have been better served had it been condensed and published as a novella.
I'd understood that this was supposed to be the actual direct sequel to Ender's Game, but written many years after other books in the Enderverse. Turns out that this is actually a sequel to at least 3 of Card's books - Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Shadow of Giants (??). I'd only read Ender's Game, so there were many instances where this book would reference something that had happened in one of the other books. I'm sure that this would be fascinating if I'd been acquainted with those others, but as it is - it only made reading this very annoying, like being invited out with friends and they are all laughing about stuff that had happened before they met you.
I'm headed to Ender's Shadow next, but that might be the last one, since my peek into the storyline of the other books doesn't interest me in the slightest.
I'm headed to Ender's Shadow next, but that might be the last one, since my peek into the storyline of the other books doesn't interest me in the slightest.
Would have probably enjoyed it more if I hadn't read the short stories that were referred to in this book.