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A review by dolorsitamet
Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card
3.0
I thought I had already rated this!
Anyways, it was kind of different from all the other books, but satisfactorily enjoyable nonetheless. The shifting-perspective thing isn't my favorite style for Card...and I felt like, as a prequel, it was not necessary. It's nice to hear the story of the first Formic war, but at the same time - I think I'd have been better off without it. I'm not blaming this on the co-author, of course, but it's not the same as any of the others in the series, and seems to try too hard/is too obvious in showing things like Oh. this new invention will become little doctor.
If the series had started with this book I would not have loved it as much, perhaps would not even read the sequel. [Having said that, because I already read this, I'll probably read its sequel too...?]
Anyways, it was kind of different from all the other books, but satisfactorily enjoyable nonetheless. The shifting-perspective thing isn't my favorite style for Card...and I felt like, as a prequel, it was not necessary. It's nice to hear the story of the first Formic war, but at the same time - I think I'd have been better off without it. I'm not blaming this on the co-author, of course, but it's not the same as any of the others in the series, and seems to try too hard/is too obvious in showing things like Oh. this new invention will become little doctor.
If the series had started with this book I would not have loved it as much, perhaps would not even read the sequel. [Having said that, because I already read this, I'll probably read its sequel too...?]